Sunday, January 29, 2012

Elimating desires and expectations

Now that I know this blog gets read occasionally (not like I publicize it) I guess I should post a little more. To whoever finds this: you have stumbled upon a random blog out of billions on the internet. So welcome to my little world!

The more I read about Buddhism the more I like it. No desire, no expectations, no problem. I have been thinking about that more recently.

I made a resolution to get out more and perhaps-through luck or a random generation of events and circumstances-meet a really great woman who I can share a little with. (I have taken two classes of college comp but I am not sure if the previous sentence is grammatically correct, forgive me if not) But if I follow the sum up of Buddhist Philosophy above, I should eliminate my desire to meet a great woman, eliminate my desire to make a living as a stock market trader, eliminate my desire to bench 350 pounds etc.

So there is the conflict. If I followed the Buddhist philosophy above, I would cease and desist all activities above. The trade off is no or minimal emotional pain as you go through life.

Perhaps I should live a modified version of the Buddhist philosophy. I will talk about that in my next post.

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