on some beliefs...

[shutterhappy]

The Dalai Lama was right. Desire is the source of endless problems.

"The aim of desire is to be satisfied. If it dominates us, and we are always craving for more, the goal is never reached and instead of finding happiness, we only get suffering."

It makes me think though, how can we possibly eliminate desire when it is in the very nature of human

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[to_say_theleast]

what the dalai lama is suggesting is impossible. even he can't do it himself. the fact that he wants us to be like that says that he has desires as well.

desires are a necessary evil. without it, life will just be reduced to a distraction from the inevitable.

[shutterhappy]

I guess we all have our philosophical definitions for "desire." I think what he really meant was desires of the flesh, those desires separate from what we really need. In which case, it's desire that becomes the distraction, the very thing that limits us.

Although...I do suppose his view is rather extremist. But wouldn't it be wonderful if we just take good things as they come, and let that be enough to make us happy?

Oh well. Maybe I'm just hopeless and bitter and jealous, and looking for any solution I can find so that I wouldn't have to be. :)