RE: 'desire and attachment are the cause of suffering'
Here's one for you
"Be willing to surrender the control of desire and in the willingness to surrender one reaches the heart of GOD."
So desire really as a root in control and the root of control is usually unmet needs of the child within.
Love beyond measure
Kim xx
RE: 'desire and attachment are the cause of suffering'
Desiderata,
From what is it that you are trying to disengage?
I can understand wanting to relinquish material desires, but not wanting to give up the love one has for family and friends, or for the desire to help others.
Love,
Patsy.
xxxxxx
RE: 'desire and attachment are the cause of suffering'
ORIGINAL: songstress
"the desire to help others|
Good to do a reality check on pure intent because sometimes the desire to help others can come from a need to be needed which is often the case in the caring professions. Desire can also come from the soul but this can be purified.
One can love one's family unconditionally. However, one can be detached from the family, when one is not in attachment to the family or the love of the family. Hence why Jesus taught that if you cannot leave your family you cannot follow me, what he was really saying was you cannot acheive my state of being e.g. evolvement. Jesus taught 'spiritual independence' through detachment of everything and everyone in the physical realm and so did Buddha.
being love
Kim xx