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Originally posted by filtherton
Being content is not the same as wanting to uphold the status quo. Being content is realizing that the status quo is going to change or not change regardless of what you do. Being content is realizing that struggling against what is inevitable is useless and wasteful. Being content nowhere contains the desire to be content, because you can't be content if your trying to be content.
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Exactly. Death is inevitable. Why struggle against it? Eating is a wasteful struggle against the inevitable.
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Originally posted by mepitans
Just go read some texts on Buddhism. You are using language to try to make yourself look right(and in some instances not even using the language correctly). Look past the language at the idea.
Also, 'at one' isn't being 'at one' with nature. If you were just 'at one' with nature, you wouldn't be one with All.
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I know very little about Buddhism. Granted.
I made two points. Which one is incorrect?
1. Motivation is a requirement of continued survival. You cannot survive without motivation.
2. All motivation comes from a desire of some kind. In fact, motivation and desire are practically synonymous.
In other words, a requirement of life is a desire for life.
Now someone could very easily explain all this, by stating that Buddhists have desire....but only desire in an comparatively simplified way, in that they have no "materialistic" desires. (This is how I previously understood things to be).
Also by "nature", I meant it in the broad sense of the word, not the modern restricted version of it.