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Originally posted by CSflim
Would you eat as you don't desire food? Would you recreate as you don't desire children/sex.
Would you get up in the morning, as you have no desire to do anything?
Would you even live, as you have no desire to do so?
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While my knowledge of the subject is far from noteworthy, my answers are:
yes.
yes.
yes.
Absence of desire does not mean apathetic to the idea of life; it means true and deep contentment with what existence does offer. As existence requires metabolism, the Buddhist eats; as existence requires consciousness, the buddhist rises from his bed; as existence requires life, the Buddhist lives until his time expires.
Instead of striving for something, the Buddhist accepts what he already has.
That's my take, anyway.