Wanting is a collection of thoughts, attached to a feeling. Perhaps it is also attached to memories and the desire to repeat those memories. The desire to repeat a pleasurable experience. I feel that wanting has an element of suffering to it, for it is not complete.It is a suffering for, and a desire for a future moment, the moment when the desire is satisfied, and the mind obsesses with images and thoughts that are centered around that future moment and are drawn away from the present moment. The present moment is filled with the hole that the wanting and the particular thoughts that surround it are seeking to fill. The mind sees the present as "not having that" and thus it is no good. There is also something self-fulfilling about wanting. It is entertainment for the mind. It adds something to the ego. It gives some empty, pseudo-meaning to life.
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