Daily writing prompt
If you had to describe your ideal life, what would it look like?
The implication being that I’m not living it? I’m outraged. Desire for things to be what they aren’t is the mother of all suffering.
The implication being that I’m not living it? I’m outraged. Desire for things to be what they aren’t is the mother of all suffering.
This sounds to me like a recipe for how to turn a great moment into Hell. Nothing special survives its moment. I’m with the Buddhists on impermanence — i.e. Everything is impermanent, (and the desire for things to be what they are not is the root of all suffering.)