Position:Home>Philosophy> Ever wish you could free yourself from your base desires?

Of course not!. Take away all "base desires" and you take away half the pleasure in life!. Not just eating and sleeping and sex, I mean!. Hot baths and sitcoms and music too!. I suppose I'm speaking more of the basal ganglia than the R complex, then!. But still!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Sex is a desire!.

Eating and Sleeping not so much!. Those two are functions, those that need to be completed!. But I agree with you, each time I feel that my body is tied and I need to go to sleep I do so with a sort of disappointment!. If I had no need for sleep I could do so much more!. I could read so much more, write and so on!. Sleeping reminds me of that "happy death" per se, or just death in general!. You know that its inevitable, and your entire existence, your entire day is based on doing what you can until that moment comes where you must stop and go quietly into the night!.

But it also forces me to be that person I wish to be!. Sleep forces you to take action in your life!. It is that motivator!. After all, perhaps sleep is just a momentary death in itself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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G You question is the basis of Hinduism, Brahmanism, Buddhism!. The smartest of the Buddhists discovered that you could use the bother to delve into the nature of reality and work to reveal your inherent enlightenment!. When you do that, you use karma as a learning tool!.Instead of trying to escape desires, why don't you use them productively to convert bother to brilliance!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Maybe I occasionally would like to be free of base desires, but it is really just the consequences of overindulgence that I want to avoid!.

I easily loose interest in passions and fight for anything I can get passionate over!.

If I wanted sex more I would likely be more romantic, and learn to sing and dance better!.

If I wanted money or fame more I would likely be a spacecraft engineer like my brother or start up a money making venture to make me rich!.

Sadly I am content to ponder philosophy and drink hot chocolates!. If only I had a passion for house cleaning my teddy bears wouldn't collect so much dust, and I would be able to find things when needed!.

If you abstain from your desires long enough your mind will eventually give up!. If loosing weight is your goal then this may be ok but but without passions for food sex or sport, life might be hardly worth living!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The baser parts of us are just as much a part of us as the higher functions!. To deny part of ourselves is harmful psychologically and emotionally, and ultimately counterproductive to a truly spiritual life because (IMO anyhow) our goal should not be to run away from our baser natures but to gain mastery over them!. This is why I cannot truly enter into the eastern philosophies -- I see them as belief systems promoting denial and repression of part of our common humanity!. Just my two cents!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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All desires are base, and therefore none are, since none are more base than others!. The sources of pleasure are primal, infantile!. You have to move, change the company you keep, or deny yourself!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Yes!. I believe that desire is the main factor that causes suffering!. It is embedded in our ego, and the only way to escape from it is to rid of it!.

You just want more and more!. Enough just isn't enough!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Only a master can free us from these three basic instincts!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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