EXTREME DESIRE FOR FREEDOM FREE
“Let us, then, free from the disease of desire, live happily amongst those who suffer that disease among men with disease of desire let us dwell free from that disease.”.“ Desire never crosses the path of virtuous wakeful men.Even in the empty forest he finds joy, because he desires nothing.” And wherever he lives, in the city or the country, in the valley or in the hills, there is great joy. “From passion and desire, sensuousness and lust, arise grief and fear.“Those who seek perfection must keep watch by day and night until all desires vanish.”.None of these alone can bring mastery or joy. “It is not good conduct that puts you on the path to liberation, nor will ritual do it, nor book learning, nor seclusion and solitude, nor meditation.“The man who has killed all desires…he indeed is exalted among men.”.“The disciple of the Supremely Enlightened takes delight in the destruction of desire.”.He who knows that the enjoyment of passion is short-lived and that it is also the womb of pain is a wise man.” “ Desires are never satisfied, not even by a shower of gold.This is a great shame because it causes Buddhism to be misrepresented and it is in Buddhism that the cause and cure of suffering are most clearly and perfectly delineated. It is becoming increasingly popular for people to call themselves Buddhists and usually without any knowledge at all of Buddha’s teachings. I call them “ dangerous” because, according to Buddha himself, the continuation and intensification of desire brings about the continuation and intensification of suffering. These things are of course the very antithesis of Buddhism and the teachings of its Founder and no-one who has read Buddha’s teachings for themselves (or who know anything of his life story) could fall prey to such delusional and even dangerous notions. Still others, under the guise of Buddhism, encourage their followers to chant certain mantras in order to become rich and successful.
There are many in the West today who, either through ignorance or ulterior motives, present Buddhism as being a sort of “anything goes” path and even try to claim that Buddha’s teachings are aligned with the so-called “Law of Attraction” teachings of today, which purport that desire is divine and that we can and should manifest our personal desires through positive thinking and visualisation, etc. The Path which leads to freedom from suffering is a narrow path.Ī clear illustration of how Buddhism is misrepresented and misunderstood in the West today is the fact that many Western Buddhists have never even heard of the Four Noble Truths and are not at all aware of Buddha having been so anti- desire. All personal desire and ambition must be extinguished by the person who wishes freedom from suffering and it can be extinguished by walking the Path. Suffering is the unavoidable accompaniment of physical existence. These are the Four Noble Truths that Buddha presented:ġ. Madame Blavatsky wrote that if humanity at large would ever accept the Four Noble Truths and live their lives accordingly, then “indeed an era of bliss and peace would dawn on Humanity.” The main essence of his teachings, and the very foundation of Buddhism, is encapsulated within what he called the Four Noble Truths. His name was Siddhartha Gautama and he is better known to us today as Buddha (meaning “The Enlightened One”), the founder of the spiritual philosophy known as Buddhism. 2,600 years ago in India, someone did discover and point out – clearly and repeatedly – the actual cause of all suffering and the way to freedom from suffering.
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