Desire, Progress, Evolution

The act of pursuing the reduction of desire first works against its own aim by birthing an entirely new desire, that is, the desire to be free of desires.


This is not a paradox, although our minds want to take it so. Instead it is pointing to something of great value. It is pointing to a general way of doing things which may seem counter-intuitive at first.


Once that new desire is born, it can be used to against the others, and yet when one takes that newly birthed desire upon itself, it allows for the proliferation of all other desires. (If your desire to remove desires is focused on that specific desire, then all other desires are outside that scope and can grow and propagate.)

This is where a guru or something would say that this shows that one cannot escape desire, that it is a paradox, but in this proclamation I think they turn pearls to coal and ash.

The formula of birthing a variation of a thing, to remove or reduce all the other previous/simultaneous variations is exactly how work is done, how progress is made. It is how life propagates and advances, we sometimes call this pattern- evolution.


An understanding of this formula allows one to tackle any sort of problem in any area of their life. For example, let us leave the intellectual world of thoughts and desires and deal with something more grounded and mundane. Let us say that there is someone who suffers from great bodily pain in their everyday life... Whether this be from old age or previous injury, it does not matter. They have pain, and they want, they NEED a solution. Do you see how we can apply the formula of desire and its reduction to this phenomena? If so, then what is the answer? What is the solution for this person's suffering? Is it by removing all things which cause them pain? No. Yet so many conduct themselves in this way, and that is why the pain stays. They need to birth a new pain. A pain that has never been before... It is a willful and targeted constructive suffering and inducement of pain. Some, may call this exercise, or yoga, or whatever system of using the body in such a way that temporary pain brings longterm gains.

Desire never ceases,
Pain never fades,
Yet if we are skillful captains,
We can use them to sail the waves.