SPIRITUALITY
A Buddhist Understanding of Desire
What does it feel like to want?
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6 min readJan 3, 2020
For a long time, I thought that Buddhism advocated for a neutral mental state: an escape from the whirlwind of excitement and sorrow. This viewpoint might have come from the life of a stereotypical monk, who denies desire in order to live in freedom from worldly pressures.
