Dan-Desire and Being

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, Daniel Berkow <berkowd@u...> wrote:

> Hi Tim!

>

> Okay, speak on ...

> >How about "the desire to be the ultimate Subject?" :-)

> >

> >There's plenty i could say on that, but

> >curious as to 'your input' :-).

 

 

Dear Dan,

 

Ok, here's how i see it...

 

The desire to be (not to be anything in particular, just to BE) lies

at the root of life. The desire to be something in particular, as

you mentioned, is the desire to attain something not already

possessed.

 

Yet the desire to *BE* is something "built in" to life itself. In

fact, i maintain that this "root" desire is precisely what maintains

life as "separation" (as a physical body, as a separate entity in

space and time).

 

For example, my mother has been a cancer care nurse for 25 years, and

has described many cases where a patient, told by a doctor "there's

nothing more we can do for you," will quietly lay down and "pass on"

a few hours or even minutes afterwards.

 

So as i see it, the desire to BE is the 'root' of all other desires.

If for some reason that desire drops acausally, life (as commonly

known) ends.

 

It doesn't (necessarily) result in actual death of the body. If that

root desire is "cut" or drops off somehow (without any illness

involved), something like a death occurs -- as described by Ramana

Maharshi, U.G. Krishnamurti and some of the other sages.

 

Following that 'death', desire itself is no more -- all desires

are "Fulfilled."

 

Anyway, just some ramblings and 'pointings'. They won't be useful to

anyone, because the dropping of "the root desire" is acausal -- there

is no way for an 'entity' or a "me" to drop the desire to be (if

causally related, it seems likely to result only in clinical

depression and related dis-ease).

 

Namaste,

 

Tim

 

, Daniel Berkow <berkowd@u...> wrote:

> Hi Tim!

>

> Okay, speak on ...

> >How about "the desire to be the ultimate Subject?" :-)

> >

> >There's plenty i could say on that, but

> >curious as to 'your input' :-).