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Anonymous Mon Feb 13 19:19:40 2023 No.21654202 [Reply] [Original]

How to be free from desire?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 19:23:10 2023 No.21654214 File: 57 KB, 976x850, _91408619_55df76d5-2245-41c1-8031-07a4da3f313f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21654202 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3l7fgvrEKM

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 19:31:57 2023 No.21654261 >>21654214 Ah, euro 2021 memories

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:06:22 2023 No.21654906 >>21654202 Die

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:09:21 2023 No.21654917 >>21654202 You're going about it the wrong way, it is war. Either desire subjugates you or you subjugate your desiring parts. Read Jihad al akbar by Khomeini, it refers to the war of the soul.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:14:59 2023 No.21654926 File: 437 KB, 1377x1600, Spinoza(1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21654202 Study, learn and understand It's simple, but not easy

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:16:59 2023 No.21654942 >>21654202 Cut your testicles off. Remove parts of your brain.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:27:43 2023 No.21654984 >>21654942 But what if I desire to cut my testes off and it gives me pleasure? Would i not be engaged in self contradiction?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:43:33 2023 No.21655030 the key to freedom from desire is to cultivate a rational and objective understanding of the world and to focus on what is within our control, rather than on external events and circumstances.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:46:28 2023 No.21655044 >>21654202 Just stop desiring it's that easy lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 22:48:27 2023 No.21655050 >>21654202 Wanting to be free from desire is a desire in itself. Sorry, you failed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 13 23:09:52 2023 No.21655117 >>21655050 You get rid of your other desires first, and then that desire will disappear on its own.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 02:18:18 2023 No.21655797 File: 183 KB, 768x915, 16164161741.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21654202 Become an cynic

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 02:21:23 2023 No.21655806 >>21655030 nerd

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 02:25:00 2023 No.21655816 >>21654202 >desiring a desireless state ngmi

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 04:46:32 2023 No.21656233 >>21654202 It's all in your head

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 05:28:00 2023 No.21656328 How to be

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 11:02:35 2023 No.21656925 >>21654202 You can never be free from desires, you can, however, learn to self-control.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 11:49:42 2023 No.21657041 >>21654202 To be free from desire and attachment is Nirvana, a word that etymologically refers to being "extinguished" or "blown out".

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 16:19:27 2023 No.21657874 File: 147 KB, 560x315, 1662407344660.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21655806 I was paraphrasing this fag, these arent my original thoughts Even tho I do agree with him

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 18:53:08 2023 No.21658450 >>21654202 >I have the desire to controls my desires so you are not really controlling your desires

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 20:22:55 2023 No.21658732 >>21655030 >rational and objective understanding of the world Good luck with that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 14 20:27:59 2023 No.21658755 >>21658732 skill issue. Git gud, midwit

Anonymous Tue Feb 14 20:43:31 2023 No.21658821

>>21654202
i don't speak greek but this is nonsense, because that saying is founded on desire : the very one against the desire itself, the desire to jeopardize desire is still a desire, not an eristic myself but this is absolutely true and no amount of circumvoluion will change this coherentist statement.

Anonymous Tue Feb 14 20:59:55 2023 No.21658886

This is just first paragraph of Nicomachean Ethics stuff. The point isn't to eliminate desire. It's to be able to compare desires and pursue the more important one. You have desired ends. To realize ends you must take action. To pursue one end, you must forgo pursuing many others. If you can consciously say "I want to lose weight, but also want to eat that chocolate bar, but losing weight is the greater end, so I won't eat the chocolate" you've created a hierarchy of desired ends. Being able to act according to that hierarchy necessarily requires weighing those ends. Thus it's the mark of a reasonable man

Anonymous Tue Feb 14 21:07:30 2023 No.21658920

>>21655044
Unironically this.

What helped was to really ponder :
How would my life overall be different if I focused on this desire ?
Would it make a difference on my death bed were I to indulge in numerous drugs, promiscuous sex, or excessive drinking ?
I think it would not. I think life is measure in terms of experiences, virtues and what you bring to the world. So what doesn't help these, I throw it out.

I still have sugar cravings though, but knowing this might be the only place I could eat good food, I indulge in it sometimes. Oh well.

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