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Originally posted by mepitans
need: 1 : necessary duty
desire: 1 : to long or hope for
You need to eat, you need to sleep, you need to reproduce.
I think all spiritual practice revolves around fulfilling your potential as a human as much as possible. That would require a need for life in the eyes of Buddhists.
I personally think there is a very big difference between needs and desires
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You're missing my point.
"You need to eat"....that's not true. Nothing is forcing you to eat. There is of course an implicit assumption in the statement "you need to eat", and it needs to be made explicit.
"You need to eat in order to stay alive"
The question is...why stay alive?
BTW: I don't mean to offend anyone in this thread. Arguing in this manner is how I come to an understanding. I am not arguing "in order to be right".