Friends:
The Advantageous & the Detrimental!
There are these two kinds of Desire:
1: The Advantageous Desire for unbinding, for release, for peace, for
Nibbana...
Why is this form of desire advantageous ?
Because it leads to lasting & ultimate safety, freedom, bliss and
HAPPINESS!!!
2: The Detrimental Desire for forms, for body, for feelings, for
perceptions, for
mental constructions, for sensing, and for the various types of consciousness
...
Why is this form of desire detrimental ?
Because it leads to repeated births, ageing, decaying, sickness & ever painful
death!!!
Because it leads to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, misery & desperate despair
...
I tell you, because such desire leads to
SUFFERING...
These are the two kinds of Desire!
There are these two
kinds of Disgust:
1: The Advantageous Disgust towards forms, towards body, towards feelings,
towards perceptions, towards mental constructions, towards sensing, towards
the
manifold and various types of consciousness, towards all internal and external
...
Why is this form of disgust advantageous ?
Because it leads towards lasting & ultimate safety, freedom, bliss &
HAPPINESS!!!
2: The Detrimental Disgust towards friends on the Noble life, towards
morality,
towards meditation, towards understanding, towards right view,
towards right
motivation,
towards right speech, towards right behaviour, towards right livelihood,
towards right effort, and towards right concentration...
Why is this form of disgust detrimental
?
Because it leads to repeated births, ageing,
decaying, sickness & ever painful death!!!
Because it leads to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, misery &
desperate despair ...
I tell you, because such disgust leads to
SUFFERING ..
These are the two kinds of Disgust!
More on this dual
Desire
(Chanda):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Desire_as_Way_to_Force.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Obstructing_Corruption.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Desireless_is_Deathless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Two_kinds_of_Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/chanda.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Desire_&_Lust.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Just_a_Flash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
