Desires are the need to posses something, to do something to be something. It's unique in human beings since we are the only beings who are capable of evaluating the past, drawing up the future without the reliance of the instinctive nature which is dominant in other beings.
Desires can be categorised to different categories, maybe like sexual desires, material desires, futuristic desires as in career or life in general.
Are desires bad? Yes. Are all desires bad? Yes. Even for example the desire to help or to build, yes. Desire gives birth to craving then to 'running after' then to fulfillment and back to desire. And the cycle keeps on going. If one would guarantee he'll always find ways of fulfillment then by all means, enjoy. But that's not always the case, even for that same individual. Sooner or later disease will strike, old age will strike and fulfillment will not be possible.
Enter the Overman. Transcendence. The key will be to transcend desires and thus ending the cycle of craving. Meditation would help, spirituality and mysticism as well. They work by denying oneself all in all, by realising that there is no subject. No mental self, no owner and the body is just a collection of bones and skin and reality is the observation of these things. Good enough solution, denying. Works.
I'm, however, looking for a more materialistic solution and I think it's found in the passions. I deny the past and the future because they're all but illusions. The only true thing is this moment. Being engulfed in the passion would never give rise to desires. Even though passion itself is desire, and it would give rise to the same cycle but I think it would limit the other more harmful desires. And it's certainly not as harmful as denying oneself. Meditation is also recommended but without it's associated dogmatic belief, just for its uses in sharpening the mind and removing the 'static noise' from it.
Find your passion, pursue your passion everywhere, engulf in it, meditate. Transcend.
Desires can be categorised to different categories, maybe like sexual desires, material desires, futuristic desires as in career or life in general.
Are desires bad? Yes. Are all desires bad? Yes. Even for example the desire to help or to build, yes. Desire gives birth to craving then to 'running after' then to fulfillment and back to desire. And the cycle keeps on going. If one would guarantee he'll always find ways of fulfillment then by all means, enjoy. But that's not always the case, even for that same individual. Sooner or later disease will strike, old age will strike and fulfillment will not be possible.
Enter the Overman. Transcendence. The key will be to transcend desires and thus ending the cycle of craving. Meditation would help, spirituality and mysticism as well. They work by denying oneself all in all, by realising that there is no subject. No mental self, no owner and the body is just a collection of bones and skin and reality is the observation of these things. Good enough solution, denying. Works.
I'm, however, looking for a more materialistic solution and I think it's found in the passions. I deny the past and the future because they're all but illusions. The only true thing is this moment. Being engulfed in the passion would never give rise to desires. Even though passion itself is desire, and it would give rise to the same cycle but I think it would limit the other more harmful desires. And it's certainly not as harmful as denying oneself. Meditation is also recommended but without it's associated dogmatic belief, just for its uses in sharpening the mind and removing the 'static noise' from it.
Find your passion, pursue your passion everywhere, engulf in it, meditate. Transcend.
