Buddhists: If desire is the source of all suffering, how can people desire to stop desiring?
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The answer to that is to learn not to desire anything. The minute you desire to stop suffering, you bring suffering upon yourself with these thoughts. Buddhists dont desire to stop desiring. They just stop desiring, full stop. To clear the mind is to empty all thoughts of good or bad, and just experience life for the wonderful thing it is. This is how one learns to appreciate life fully and enjoy every moment.
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i don't think we can ever prevent suffering.because it is part of our life.but what we can do is to console those who suffers,like give food to the hungry,cloth the naked,comfort the sick,etc.but the best of all,our mission is to lead others to Christ, so that they may be able to find Christ in their life.to find peace in the midst of all sufferings.
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Philippians 4:6\nBe anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.\n\nColosians 2:20\nTherefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.\n\nPhilippians 4:8\nFinally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
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All of us know one thing which is “LUST”or in another sense it is “GREED”, but I think both are nearly the same.\n\nLets see what bible says about a desire.\n\n“DESIRE WHEN BECOMES PREGNANT GIVES BIRTH TO SIN”.\n\nWe see that desire is the beginning of a Sin, it is the root of a sin. So when we have a look at the character of Judas ASCARIOT we find out that he kept all the money and arranged everything he was kind of a manager. But another thing he always took something from the money from himself, we see he was greedy and greed is the strongest of all desires. When this desire grew it changed into a great lust “THE LUST FOR MONEY”, and day by day it grew and grew and ONE DAY HIS LUST BECAME SO STRONG THAT IT SOLD THE CHRIST.\n\nAs we know it before when desire becomes pregnant it gives birth to a sin so his greed his desire for money made him mad, sin overtook him in the shape of desire. \n\nIt is very much symbolic because there was a fruit(something which we gain) in heaven for which man sold himself to Satan. And here in case of Jesus, Judas also took something shiny and good looking because in the garden of Eden Eve Saw. MANY PEOPLE ASK ME WHY DOES JESUS SAY HIMSELF AS SON OF MAN? THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT ADAM AND EVE SOLD THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN TO SATAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, AND JESUS WAS ALSO SOLD BY JUDAS ASCARIOT TOTHE HANDS OF SATAN FOR CRUCIFICTION BECAUSE SON OF MAN ARE SOLD TO SATAN FOR PUNISHMENT BUT ON THE OTHER HAND HE WAS GOD(JESUS IS GOD AND MAN AT THE SAME TIME), SO HE DEFEATED DEATH AND BROUGHT SALVATION FOR US.\n\nGenesis 3:6\nAnd when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate.\n\nWhen we see Judas also had something in his Sight which looked good the “THIRTY SHILLINGS”. SO THE SIN OF JUDAS ASCARIOT IS DESIRE(GREED AND LUST) WHICH SOLD JESUS. \n\nAnd I think questioning the text means nothing because we know what is the meaning because we believe that JUDAS ASCARIOT BETRAYED HIMSELF BY SELLING JESUS, JESUS ALREADY KNEW WHAT JUDAS WAS GONNA DO. JUDAS ASCARIOT WAS TESTED BY HIS OWN DESIRES AS IT IS SAID IN THE BIBLE THAT WE ARE TESTED BY OUR DESIRES. \n\nJUDAS'S DESIRE SHOULD BE BLAMED AND HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT CONTROLLING HIS DESIRE. THE BLAME ON HIM IS NOT WRONG.\n\nGOD BLESS EVERYBODY
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yes i totally agree with your opinion.i feel it ia an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.i think it is the condition of mind when the mind is out of conditon.so enjoy your life yaar.n don,t fall in love because love is blind.n u know if u r in a true love then u can die for ur beloved n u will reach heaven n u go go to heaven when u die.so if u fall in love u have to die hy hook or crook.so enjoy ur own life.
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Unless the secret of inward peace is also the secret of escape from fear, it does not meet a need I believe is almost the central need of mankind. If it be asked, "Why are so many people in the modern world anxious, worried, nervous, irritable, depressed, bad sleepers, and not quite well?" the answer in most cases is that they are frightened. . . . What, then, is the way to escape from the power of this ever-present enemy? I know none except learning that we are in the keeping of a God who will never desert us. . . . There is no fear where love is, and the love of God is always present. . . . Till we have faced that fact, we are not ready to understand what God does actually for those who trust in Him. But when we have learnt that truth, we may go on to say, "Come what may, we know that He will be with us and therefore need not fear." We may have to suffer in the body, but His sustaining grace will never leave us. We may lose our dear ones and so be wounded in our very hearts, but His grace will give us strength to carry even that cross. We may have to face poverty; but if so, He will do for us what He has done for thousands and teach us how to be poor and yet content. We may have to face hunger of the heart, and no one who knows what that means will ever think lightly of it; but even through that fiery trial, His love will sustain those who turn to Him. \n \nA. H. Gray
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The cause of all suffering is desire.
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(1) All life involves suffering, and is inevitably sorrowful. (2) The cause of suffering and sorrow is craving or desire arising from ignorance. (3) There is escape from suffering, because craving and desire can end. (4) There is an Eightfold Path leading to the end of suffering and sorrow
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one cant, at least THIS one cant.  When something terrible happens and you question gods "wisdom" a religious person will most often come back with god has a plan we just don't know what it is.  Well my point is if there is a god and this god is omnipotent then this god allows all of this terrible stuff to happen.  Now if this god has a plan that lets these things happen FOR WHATEVER REASON then it is not something I would want in my life.  If a person stands idly by and lets pain and suffering befall his fellow man when it is in his/her ability to stop the suffering then they are as much at fault as whatever is causing the suffering.  If a "god" dose the same thing, well its just a perverse sort of thing to put your faith in.
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While many today feel that there is nothing wrong or dangerous about feeding sexual fantasies, the Bible disagrees. It clearly explains that there is an intrinsic relationship between what we feed on mentally and how we act. "Each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire," points out the Christian disciple James. "Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin." (James 1:14, 15) Jesus said: "Everyone that keeps on looking at a woman so as to have a passion for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."—Matthew 5:28.\nAs James and Jesus both indicate, humans act on the impulse of internal desires. Those desires, when fed and nourished, can in time become powerful obsessions. Obsessions are very hard to resist and can eventually push a person into action. Thus, what we introduce into our minds can have a powerful effect on what we eventually do.\nSexual fantasies can directly interfere with our worship of God. That is why Paul wrote: "Deaden, therefore, your body members . . . as respects fornication, uncleanness, sexual appetite, hurtful desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry."—Colossians 3:5.\nPaul here links sexual appetite with covetousness, which is an inordinate desire for something that one does not have.* Covetousness is a form of idolatry. Why? Because the one coveting puts that desired thing before all else, including God. Pornography stimulates lust for something that one does not possess. "You want somebody else's sexual life. . . . You can have nothing in your mind but that appetite for what you lack. . . . What we lust for, we worship," says one religion writer.
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This is from the Buddhism point of view on reincarnation. \nReincarnation is the cycle of life. Your next life can be a human, an animal, a ghost, an angel, a god or goddess in heaven, a bacteria, a bug, a prisoner from hell etc., depending on what you do in your current life and your action. Buddha had never encouraged people end up in the cycle of reincarnation because there are a lot of sufferings: hunger, pain, anger, greed, worries, pride, and ego, in the reincarnation cycle. According to the Buddha, the ultimate goal of a Buddhist should be reaching to Nirvana which means escaping from reincarnation cycle or ending of reincarnation. Nirvana is not like heaven. Nirvana is the end of reincarnation or the end of the cycle of life. And Nirvana is also the end of sufferings or the end of body and mind.
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:}\nEasy with Satan's assistance.\n\nHumans want, by our fallen and selfish nature, to escape his Lordship.\n\nFrom infancy we are concerned with ourselves and our needs\nIt's difficult to suppress the :Me " in favor of the "Him".\n\nSatan then willingly supplies us with all kinds of worldly reasons we can grab onto. Philosophy, pseudo -science, secular humanism, atheism etc.
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The cause of suffering in this world is : MAN. Man himself is the cause of suffering. Due to greed for money, power or sex (don't get me wrong, I love sex), but that's the main problem. That and the auto-destructive nature of men. But despite all that suffering, which is necessary, there's a lot of beautiful things around. Without the bad things, it would be very difficult to appreciate the good ones. We all need a balance.
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Religions such as Christianity lock their followers in for generations with the promise of eternal suffering if disobeyed. So while their subconscious is held with fear of pain after death, their conscious mind is mislead by truths of love and compasion from a high creator who was created from nothing.
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The essence of Buddhism is not that difficult to state. To understand, now that's another story.\n\nIn short, the essence is Mindfulness and Compassion. \n\nBuddhists believes that all beings are united and are a part of each other, thus the ego is in fact detrimental to our own happiness since if we embrace the ego, we will unintentional hurt others and if we are a part of one another, then we will in fact be hurting ourselves.\n\nBuddhists also believe that compassion is the key to happiness and that the Buddha Mind, that which we must nurture if we wish to become enlightened, is our natural state.\n\nFore more detail, please read on:\n\nThe Basic  teachings are:\n\nThe Four Nobel Truths:\n1) All worldly life is suffering. Causing us to lead an unsatisfactory, disjointed life.\n2) Suffering is caused by the ego. Things such as attachment and desire are rooted in the ego through ignorance.\n3) There is a way to end suffering. \n4) The way to end suffering is found in the Noble Eightfold Path\n\nThe Noble Eightfold Path: (Divided into three categories)\n>Wisdom\n1) Right Understanding - Looking at the world without attachment and desire, without ego.\n2) Right Thought - Keeping the mind on what is at hand and being resolved on renunciation, freedom from ill will, and on harmlessness.\n\n>Ethical Conduct\n3) Right Speech - Abstaining from lying, divisive, abusive and idle chatter.\n4) Right Action - Abstaining from taking life, stealing and improper sexual activities\n5) Right Livelihood - Doing what is right with ones life.\n\n>Concentration or Mental Development\n6) Right Effort - A persistent desire and an matching endeavor to participate in proper activates the are good and just. \n7) Right Mindfulness - Remaining focused on ones actions, speech, thoughts and lively hood. \n8) Right Concentration - by abandoning all selfishness and adopting a heart of compassion, keeping ones mind on what needs to be do including the helping of others.\n\nOn a more spiritual level, Buddhist generally believe in reincarnation, a cycle of birth, death and rebirth. This is called samsara. When we reach enlightenment, this cycle is broken and we are able to move into the next step of existence, Nirvana. \n\nThere are many schools and sects of Buddhism and some very in practice greatly. However, the underlying principals are virtually identical regardless of the school or tradition of Buddhism. \n\nFor more detailed information, please check out the references I have posted bellow.
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suffering is called dukkha in Buddhism, and they believe there are 3 types of suffering: ordinary (for example when we lose someone we love or break a bone), the suffering of change ( for example when our beauty fades or flowers die), and the suffering of conditioned existence ( this is similar to a feeling of angst, a frustration at our mortal limitations).\nBuddhists believe the only way to cease suffering is to become enlightened, and stop the cycle of suffering, which is called samsara, and is the cycle of birth, life, decay, and death.
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Interesting question.\n\nEverything manifests from God. Atleast that is what my religion teaches. I'm a Hindu. Hell and Heaven are subjective to the person's creation of heaven through their atman (soul). Thus a person desiring to go to a Heaven and spend it with their manifested personalized form of the Divine such as Jesus, Krishna, etc will have just that. Heaven will be a place as created by the soul and the Divine will come to them in the form and by the name of the person's choosing. If a person only wants to go to Heaven to see family and ancestors, then this is the Heaven they will go to and the Divine will come to them in the forms of their family and ancestors. If Hell is a place they want to go, then they will manifest it and the Divine will take the necessary forms of whatever Hell is for them.\n\nThat said, homosexuals, heterosexuals, and bisexuals are all manifestations of God. Everything in the universe is a manifestation of God. Why are there so many types of trees? Why are some stars one color and others another color? Why not just make kind of star, one kind of tree, one kind of person? Apparently this isn't how things are and if they aren't that way, well everything manifests from God. God is within everything. Good and bad are subjective to the individual person. What one person may see as being good (probably because it gratifies them) another person may see it as being bad. We each experience God differently, because God is so large and vast that we can only touch and understand only small aspects of the Whole. \n\nThus within each person is a spark of the Divine. Each spark is seeking for a way to return back to the Whole flame. Like a river returns to the ocean, so are all of us, we just all have to take different paths and use different tools..that is the nature of religion.\n\nHomosexuals are yet another way in which the Divine experiences the universe and we experience the Divine. There are several stories as to why the Divine would manifest itself in Hinduism. One is that It was overflowing with creative energy that it had to burst outward and create. Another is that She wanted to be able to have compnay and thus gave birth to the entire universe, but promised that it could always return back to Her. Another is that He wanted to experience Himself and thus began manifesting the universe and everything in it and by doing so could experience everything. Another goes that the universe is like a dream within the mind of the Divine...we are all One and will merge back into the Divine Self, but right now we are all merely playing out aspects of the Whole of who we really are. You can take any of these stories as you like them, but each of them basically says that homosexuals are a part of the Divine the same as the heterosexuals and bisexuals. We are all one, we all came from the same imminating source and we will all return to it. Those who say that homosexuality is bad are doing so from their own subjective perspectives. For those who say that homosexuality is good then they are again saying this from their own subjective perspectives. In reality it is neither good or bad, it simply is. It is our effects on each other that determine bad or good. When Hindus greet each other they place their hands together in a prayer like manner, bow, and say "Namaste" or "Namaskar". The meaning behind all this is "The Divine in me bows to the Divine in you" and this is done because it is believed that when we come across each other it is the Divine meeting itself. How we treat each other is reflective of how we treat the Divine....in how we treat God...since a spark from the Whole dwells in each of us.