Discussion of Desire, Part II
Another standard used to judge desire is an internal one whereupon as one indulges in such pleasures, one feels pain of some sort discomfort or in some cases pain.
Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, asserts in the four Noble truths, that desire or craving is the source of human suffering.
The concept of desire is opposed to the concept of God's path, to use a religious metaphor, or being on course or being professional or objective to use more secular term. Desirelessness, however, is more diametrically opposed to desire.
Another standard used to judge desire is an internal one whereupon as one indulges in such pleasures, one feels pain of some sort discomfort or in some cases pain.
Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, asserts in the four Noble truths, that desire or craving is the source of human suffering.
The concept of desire is opposed to the concept of God's path, to use a religious metaphor, or being on course or being professional or objective to use more secular term. Desirelessness, however, is more diametrically opposed to desire.
I found a middle path between the opposites of desire, remain desire less in all cases, except cases where there is mutual desire. How do you do this? You do this by turning your hobby into career. So that whenever you have free time, you can work on your hobby for the purpose of making a living out of it. You may also use this career to advance causes you think are great.
The concept of desire covers wide range of classes; for instance, not listening to both sides and leaning towards what appears to be the case on first encounter is one of them.
David, as mentioned in the Quran, had made this mistake, when he was judging between two men who were arguing about ewes: One of them had 99 of them and another had only one; the former had asked the letter to complete a hundred for him.
An argument had ensued between the two, whereupon the one with the 99 ewes won the argument.
David, judged hastily by seeing the question of completing one hundred per se as an aggression, but he succeeded not in listening to the argument that have ensued between the two, whereupon the man with the plenty of the ewes won. He had a good case, despite appearing on the first encounter having unjust case.
David did not listen to this argument, for which reason he succeeded not in judging fairly.
Listening to both sides despite one’s case being more compelling than the other on prima facia basis, increases one's chances of judging fairly and by implication remaining on God's path or being objective or more appropriately becoming more desire-less.
Somalis say if you see someone whose stomach is out, don’t believe him; may be he has already killed the one who took his stomach out.
Suspend judgment is the moral of the story, until you collect as much information as possible, even then let the conclusion remain as it is and no more, subject to change as more information becomes available.
David did not listen to this argument, for which reason he succeeded not in judging fairly.
Listening to both sides despite one’s case being more compelling than the other on prima facia basis, increases one's chances of judging fairly and by implication remaining on God's path or being objective or more appropriately becoming more desire-less.
Somalis say if you see someone whose stomach is out, don’t believe him; may be he has already killed the one who took his stomach out.
Suspend judgment is the moral of the story, until you collect as much information as possible, even then let the conclusion remain as it is and no more, subject to change as more information becomes available.
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