[MD] Why the quality of the modern world is no good.

[John Carl]

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> >Juan Carlos:
> > Darn that Siddhartha! He's been leading us astray all this time.
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> Dan:
> Oh no I certainly didn't mean to imply that! I'm pretty sure Siddhartha
> discovered for himself that living a life void of desire was not the middle
> way. It was in fact extreme.
>
> Rather, what I was getting at is that there are positive desires and
> negative desires. I think the Buddha might agree: it's not a feeling of
> satisfaction, it's the positive or negative consequences that arise from
> desire that provide a demarcation point.
>


What is a flower that turns its face toward the sun but an expression of
desire?  How can that desire lead to suffering?

Obviously it must be a misinterpretation of the teaching to say ALL desire
is at the root of all suffering.   Karmic repercussions have to be
considered.

I wonder what the teaching would have been coming from a slumdog turned
millionaire rather than a pampered and protected prince suddenly thrust into
 hard cold reality:


1. Suffering eventually leads to the satisfaction of desire.

2. Worldly pleasure is found when clinging to suffering ceases.

3. When worldly pleasure comes, all delusion ceases and a liberated state of
enlightenment ensues

4. Finding this place is natural if one just follows the path that life lays
out, and you end up on a televised gameshow.











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