desire creates suffering?

Question

Busdsism says that desire creates suffering? What do you think? Abraham-hicks says that we came here to have desires so that we may manifest what we'd like...any thoughts?

Answer 1

i think the lack of desire creates emptiness

Answer 2

Excessive desire creates suffering, because it tends to create a constant need to desire something, due to after it's attainment, you have nothing left to desire and that creates unrest in a mind that is used to desiring. I think if you're grateful for what you have, intending to have more come into your life is not a bad thing. But desiring is acknowledgement of something's abscence in your life, and thus where the suffering lies other than the actual psychological desiring itself, while intention, is a self fulfilling prophecy. Thus being the reason why Abraham-Hicks focuses on the power of intentions and recreating the feelings of though having already attaining what one wishes to attract, rather than desiring and acknowledging an abscence or emptiness in one's own life thus causing more abscence to be created. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, because of this powerful law of attraction.

Answer 3

Well, in one sense desire does seem to create suffering. Many desires people have do cause suffering such as stealing, killing, etc. I think it would depend on what your desires were though. If your desires were towards eating and drinking, then perhaps they wouldn't create suffering. Unless the person's desire to eat and drink went too far so that he became a glutton. Aristotle thought that there was a moderation or mean in everything that should be sought after. So maybe it's just how far we take each desire.

Answer 4

If you are constantly in happiness, will you feel pain or suffering? The key to ending suffering is in finding a way to live life in a constant state of being happy. Our inability to be in constant state of happiness is the cause of suffering, not desire or anything else. Everyone is asking, why am I suffering? Why can't I be happy? Actually, we have made ourself to be unhappy or in suffering by choosing to feel or have the thoughts that gives suffering. We can choose the kind of feelings we want to feel or the kind of thoughts we want. We can choose to be happy always. Everyone have a choice. The answer is in the control of thoughts and feelings.

Answer 5

Yes, it certainly can. I agree with "no one"s response above.

The Stones said, "I can't get no satisfaction". No matter what you have, it is common for people to want more or better.

The Buddha taught us to break this cycle of never-ending desire. We should strive to free ourselves from it. I think the best english word for it is "contentment".

On the other hand, it is our animal nature to be selfish hunter-gatherers focused on survival for ourselves and our tribes. But it is hard to shut off this natural impulse to accumulate and envy our neighbors, even when we have all that we need. True happiness is more than impulsively quenching every desire. We should all hope to be content with what we have.

Answer 6

Life is all about reasonable high-order desires and efforts towards fulfilling them.

If desires are totally self-centered, they would cause unhappiness and suffering of the mind, since their fulfillment would only give rise to another desire of the same genre.

The former kind of desires are like aims or objectives and the latter are like greed and lust.

Answer 7

I completely agree with that Buddhist thought. When you desire something, that's what you focus on instead of your spirituality. And you want it, which creates the suffering, as it turns into a cycle.

Just my thoughts though.

Answer 8

desire creates suffering? .....Wrong!
'Desire' is a necessary part of creating/creation.
'Attachment' is the root of suffering so saith Gautama the previous Buddha. I am fully aware the word 'desire' is used in the Buddhist Sutras but this is a translation error.
It states in Chp.1 in the book of Genesis we are "co-created' with God!

Answer 9

I find that buddhist saying to be incredibly fundamentally true.

I don't know anything aboiut abraham-hicks, but if he is implying that humans are here for some purpose, then I reject it.

Answer 10

Usually. But that's only because our desires are generally destructive.