What's your Burning Desire?
Many of you may think, "I don't really have a burning desire." I think this is typically caused by being so disappointed by life that you've grown numb to your desires. So I pose the question:
If you knew you could not fail, what would you want more than anything?
But maybe you're at a crossroads or were recently disillusioned and just don't know exactly what you want. That's fine, tell us about what you want anyways, even if you're sort of confused.
Maybe it's not one thing. That's fine too, but I don't care about things you sort of want. I care about the desires that burn inside of you.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
My burning desire is to permenantly die.
To Die
I would go to bed aged 3ish to 8 hoping-deeply to never wake up. I didn't want to go to heaven or dream. I wanted to stop existing like I was never born.
I don't mean suicide in case there is life after death and punishment for suicide. I mean the final second death into the deep dark void.
Nearly every religion says this death I want don't exist. Except Buddhism. When I was bout 13 I read a penguin book on Buddhism. It was the only book on budhism available in Cairns in 1973.
Somewhere in that small-print paper back I read that permanent death is not available to anyone but the most advanced Buddhas. The rest of us are doomed to reincarnated, destined by our past deeds (our karmas).
My fervent desire is to circumvent all the rigermorole and jump to the end game. I think I have a chance because every thing is based on fervent desire, (spiritually), and as an innocent infant I went to bed, powerfully hoping, never to awaken.
I could say a lot more.
How do "I" die permanently, Om?
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Originally Posted by
Omnis Dei
I believe, according to buddhism, that sort of death is available right this moment. And it doesn't even require death of the body.
Problem is Om
When you ask one who knows, that Buddha answer's in riddles.