"A street-car named 'Desire" :
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It is desire to be something that breeds enmity and violence.
- J.Krishnamurti
Could we stop desiring? Isn't that too a desire? And, if 'somehow' we could stop desiring as we often knowingly, deliberately or because forced by circumstances tend to do, is that what of K might have pointed out by this statement? If we derive the conclusion that He is condemning desire, then we perhaps miss what He has pointed out. I'm not trying to interpret His words, I'm rather trying to understand what He might have said through these words. Desire is a 'fact'. We have no doubt whatsoever about what mental state is denoted by the word 'desire'. But either we get carried away by desire, or condemn, justify or criticize desire. But if we look at 'what is' desire, without any explanation or comment, without classifying desire in terms of good, bad, evil, harmful, valid or invalid, we can see for our-self that desire is a movement of consciousness. Not mine or yours, but of human psyche. (We can sure further extend this to other living beings as well, but that is superfluous on our part here.) And we are not even concerned about stopping desire, nor we are concerned of its possible consequences, -good or bad, for that has been the traditional approach, right or wrong, but lets us not look directly 'what is' desire. If this happens, we could see the futility, absurdity or meaning of desire and then we (whatever is 'we') will not be slave to desire, nor desire a slave to us. Desire as such will show its colors (blossom, flower and wither away, just as 'Thought blossoms') and its truth stands revealed before us.
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It is desire to be something that breeds enmity and violence.
- J.Krishnamurti
Could we stop desiring? Isn't that too a desire? And, if 'somehow' we could stop desiring as we often knowingly, deliberately or because forced by circumstances tend to do, is that what of K might have pointed out by this statement? If we derive the conclusion that He is condemning desire, then we perhaps miss what He has pointed out. I'm not trying to interpret His words, I'm rather trying to understand what He might have said through these words. Desire is a 'fact'. We have no doubt whatsoever about what mental state is denoted by the word 'desire'. But either we get carried away by desire, or condemn, justify or criticize desire. But if we look at 'what is' desire, without any explanation or comment, without classifying desire in terms of good, bad, evil, harmful, valid or invalid, we can see for our-self that desire is a movement of consciousness. Not mine or yours, but of human psyche. (We can sure further extend this to other living beings as well, but that is superfluous on our part here.) And we are not even concerned about stopping desire, nor we are concerned of its possible consequences, -good or bad, for that has been the traditional approach, right or wrong, but lets us not look directly 'what is' desire. If this happens, we could see the futility, absurdity or meaning of desire and then we (whatever is 'we') will not be slave to desire, nor desire a slave to us. Desire as such will show its colors (blossom, flower and wither away, just as 'Thought blossoms') and its truth stands revealed before us.
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