[MD] desires

[david buchanan]

One day Marsha says:Except for the wish to become enlightened, the Buddha has said that desire is the source of all suffering. ...I suggest you check out the second of the Four Noble Truths. You have claimed a familiarity with basic Buddhist tenets. There is an abundance of material to support the fact that longing/desiring/craving is the source of suffering. For me desire is all about illusion,.. it is not realizing that the object of my desire is a projection, a pattern, a conceptual construct that does not exist out there somewhere separate. Desire creates separation, builds ego or I-ness; it is dualistic through and through. - I paint when I prefer to paint above all other activities. 
dmb replied:
The MOQ can certainly be compared to Buddhism but that doesn't mean it must be constrained by it or comply with every tenant. The MOQ is a fusion of East and West, right? I think young Phaedrus left India because he was put off by the morally vacuous attitude of otherworldly forms of mysticism.

And the next day Marsha says:
My statements that you quoted did not even contain the word Buddhism, and when Phaedrus was in India he did not study Buddhism.  And rest of your statements make even less sense to me. 



dmb says:
So you're saying that honesty and consistency plays no important role is what you think or say? Is that your point? Do you suppose anyone here is so forgetful that they don't remember what you said just yesterday? Again, you really ought to see a doctor about your short-term memory problem.