I believe that desire can cause pain but not always. An example of a way that desire can cause pain is you can be infertile and want to have a child so bad that it physically makes you sick. An example of a way desire does not cause pain would be if you’re in the middle of a basketball game, and it’s is tied 12 to 12 with 2 minutes left on the clock, you are passed the ball, and your desire to win allows you to take a risky shot you other wise would not have taken, and you make it for a buzzer beater win.Buddhists believe that desire does cause pain; it’s a core belief in their religion. A long but beautiful quote describes perfectly the buddhist logic behind why desire causes pain. “The cause of suffering is a lack of enlightenment, which …show more content…
Desire divides the cosmos, it separates you from yourself. Desire creates time, the pairs of opposites: Attraction and repulsion. . . Human life is painful because of desire. We desire things and we chase after them. We are afraid of things and we run away from them. . . Desires surge through us. And when those desires are not fulfilled we are unhappy. The world doesn't cause us pain by the fact that it exists, but we cause ourselves pain because we attach ourselves to circumstances. When those circumstances are in conflict with what we want or don't want, we experience pain. . . Your happiness is now a victim to fortune. Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss, the loss of the object of desire. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it. . . Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind. . . Attachment always causes pain to the perceiver. . . The world of desire is the world of karma. All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to
In Cause of Suffering, everyone craves a lust for satisfaction, whether it is hunger, power, or entertainment. We never forget the thirst for attentiveness as it becomes repetitive until the thirst subsides for a while. For this reason,
Happiness and sadness have a very interesting relationship. Many philosophers have taken this view point and gone deep into the idea to find out what is really true about it. Some say that if you have never felt sad, then you would never know whether or not you are truly happy, because of this some see that teaching and think of it in a fairly depressing light. Though it is not to say that they can’t exist separately, without sadness there would not be true happiness. This idea is a very interesting topic because there are very few people who can go through their lives and not be unhappy for at least a brief period of time. There are countless ways that somebody could become unhappy. To name a few, one could lose a family member, end
Desire is one of the most powerful feelings in the worlds since it can lead us to do things we can’t even imagine. For example, to violence, as seen in the film. As I watched the film I was often surprised by the decisions the main character made and I could see that even though they were rash and delirious, there was a really strong reason behind
Happiness has always been a desirable goal throughout our lives, but each actions we take might just affect the happiness of others. When humans seek happiness, we always seek for things that make us feel alive, or things that brings us the greatest comfort. Our contentment comes with the act of selfishness since we choose to prioritize our happiness above all other. We willingly classify happiness in two different types of meaning, both physical and mental happiness. People ought not be in title to happiness because it is classified in general as a physical desire by many people. Contentment is always known to be a physical satisfaction in life instead of a self-inducing satisfaction for life.
Desire is seen as one of the main sources of suffering in Buddhism because it can create an attachment to certain things in life, whether they be people or inanimate objects, and this sets one up for more suffering. The bodhisattva’s father epitomizes desire in the Buddhacarita. He wishes for his son to eventually be the ruler of the earth rather than simply a religious leader. This base desire sets him up for suffering since upon his son’s rejection of the regal way of life he is disappointed in a way that would not be possible if he did not have desire in the first place. The king’s desires, and selfish ones at that, end up not going as planned since the bodhisattva eventually sees suffering and is determined to fix suffering in the world leading to his father trying to sorrowfully persuade the bodhisattva to stay while “shedding copious amounts of tears” (B. 5.40). This event clearly depicts how desire is able to directly lead to suffering; however, the king was not learned in the ways of Buddhism so he would have easily been manipulated by desires of the world, but desire is even able to corrupt those that are more learned in the teachings of Buddhism, even though it was an early form. Even the gods were upset when the Buddha neared the end of his life because they did not want to see him die.
The Dhammapada speaks a universal truth, that “desire is unquenchable,” and explains that “he who wishes to awake, consumes his desires joyfully” (Chapter 14). These statements prove similar to the four noble truths, that to live is to suffer, and desire causes suffering; therefore, one cannot avoid temptation because it is ubiquitous. When explaining the outcomes of “craving pleasure or nursing pain,” the Buddha articulates that “there is only sorrow” (Chapter 16). Desire clearly only causes difficulty when attempting to achieve Nirvana, and the Dhammapada seeks to convey the importance of clearing the mind and purifying one’s thoughts. Continuing to contrast lust and happiness, the Buddha explains that “there is pleasure and there is bliss, forgo the first to possess the second” (Chapter 21). One cannot have genuine jubilation while yearnings and allurements cloud the mind. Expressed throughout Buddhist teachings and a main religious text, the action of overpowering desire and lewd thoughts proves a crucial step in eventually reaching
Happiness is also a part of growing up and being human, some people experience it abundantly and some very scarcely. You can gain happiness or lose it, Soraya, Amir’s wife says it like this “I'm so afraid.
There is a old time saying that “you will never know what true happiness feels like until you have felt pain”. In order to reach where you are going in life you have to go through hardship and pain to find your inner contentment. Often times,people who have too much in life always takes it for granted ,because all they have is pleasure and not knowing the feelings of pain and being without. Martha C. Nussbaum author of “who is the happy warrior” states that you have to go through pain to find the true meaning of happiness while Daniel M.Haybron author of “Happiness and Its Discontents” states that pain doesn 't bring happiness,happiness is just a thing you feel when you think you may have enough. To find happiness you have to go through the unbearable process of life.
desires can be engaged without reason. Their thoughts are consumed by their desires for the
I beg to ask the question, what if happiness, isn’t to just be happy, but to understand pain.
When other people in life work hard and pour out their joy and excitement from their life to your own life then there is nothing else to do but soak up what is available. There is no happiness in loneliness and solitude, sometimes it may be nice to be alone in a quiet place to study or think, but too much of that wears down a person down into a selfish attitude of despair and bitterness. I have never heard of a happy bitter person, it’s just psychologically impossible. Just being around others who share the same interests, or the same faith or both allows you to benefit from their company and them from yours. Happiness comes from giving the overflow of your understanding and positive feelings to others. Helping them through difficult times or just hanging out over a period of time refreshes a person and allows them to forget or to see in another light the troubles that have been going on for so long. Without others around there is no way that a person can be happy and content with their
By watching people Siddhartha found that suffering is caused by selfish desires and craving—aka tanha—as well as ignorance. Craving can be explained as the strong desires people have for pleasing their senses. Truth is that none of the things we crave last for very long, and in fact say it is your favorite food, once it is finished it is forgotten as if it never happened—then you go on to crave something else. People crave constantly, but in the end they will never be fully satisfied; that is the reason that people repeat acts such as eating delicious food or having sex multiple times.
Rather than symptomatic of a ‘lack;’, I believe desire can in fact be a natural, positive energy – desire is production. As Guattari once observed , “we will only become revolutionary when we bring into play our ‘unconscious investments’ - when we reach the point where desire and machine become indistinguishable, where desire and contrivance are the same thing”(4).
Suffering can be defined as an experience of discomfort suffered by a person during his life. The New York Times published an article entitled what suffering does, by David Brooks (2014). In this article, Brooks explains how suffering plays an important role in our pursuit of happiness. He explains firstly that happiness is found through experiences and then, suffering can also be a motivation in our pursuit of happiness. In other words, suffering is a fearful but necessary gift to acquire happiness. This paper is related to motivation and emotion, two keys words to the pursuit of happiness (King, 2010).
When we are young children, we are introduced to the concept of "living happily ever after". This is a fairy-tale emotional state of absolute happiness, where nothing really happens, and nothing even seems to matter. It is a state of feeling good all the time. In fairy tales, this feeling is usually found in fulfilling marriages, royal castles, singing birds and laughing children. In real life, an even-keeled mood is more psychologically healthy than a mood in which you frequently achieve great heights of happiness. Furthermore, when you ask people what makes their lives worth living, they rarely mention their mood. They are more likely to talk about what they find meaningful, such as their work or relationships. Research suggests that if you focus too much on trying to feel good all the time, you’ll actually undermine your ability to ever feel good because no amount of feeling good will be satisfying to you. If feeling good all the time were the only requirement for happiness, then a person who uses cocaine every day would be extremely happy. In our endless struggle for more money, more love and more security, we have forgotten the most fundamental fact: happiness is not caused by possessions or social positions, and can in fact be experienced in any daily activity. We have made happiness a utopia: expensive, complicated, and unreachable.