03-03-2018, 03:31 AM
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Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by Rain95
The way I understand my path is to be present with whatever is without bias that would come from the conditioned and conceptual mind. Right now is there a desire? If so let it go, if not desire does not exist for me now.
Like if I say desire is a problem, that may or may not be true. Is desire present in the current moment? I have to look at my actual state,
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Precisely.
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]not an imagined one where I tell myself desire is always a problem for me. But then maybe that's the actual state right, telling myself stuff about desire, being in my mind.
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Yes.
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Then say I say everyone has desires and desires are good and all of that... here again where is my attention? It is on my thoughts. Desire is a word for something else, to name this something else something I have to focusing my attention on the mind and thought. The conceptual symbolic world not the actual one Buddha says we can also experience and live in.
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I think the one Buddha describes is an imaginary one.
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The only thing that exists is what is present now. But then, yes, we humans can also live within the conceptual mental world where desire always lives and exists.
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Zactamondo.
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