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<b
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>FROM where
does desire come? Buddha said that it came from Ignorance. It is almost that.
Desire is something in the being which imagines that it requires an object
other than itself for its satisfaction. This is sheer ignorance, proved by the
fact that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred when one has the thing desired,
one no more cares for it.</p>

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its very origin, I think, it was an obscure need for growth or increase. In the
lowest forms of life we find love transformed into an instinctive and
irresistible need for enlarging, swelling, absorbing, adding to it another
body. This need to take in is desire. So perhaps if you go back far enough into
the last depths of inconscience, you will see that the ultimate source of
desire is love: it is love in its most dark and inconscient form. It is, as I
said, a need for accretion, an attraction for an outside object in order to
embrace it, swallow it, make it part of itself and so grow bigger. Now, suppose
you have before you something beautiful, harmonious, pleasing: if you have the
true consciousness, you enjoy and are happy to the full, by simply looking at
the thing, by having an inner contact in consciousness with the beauty and
harmony that is there. And there the matter ends. You have the joy and that is
all. Such a movement is very common in the artist. He sees a beautiful person,
he has the joy of observing the grace of the form, the harmony of the movements
and all that. But it does not go beyond. He is perfectly happy, perfectly satisfied
when he has seen something beautiful.</p>

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ordinary consciousness, on the contrary, I mean very ordinary, flat as ordinary
things are, when it sees something beautiful, whether it is a material object
or a person, it imme­diately jumps at it, shouting, &quot;I must have it!&quot;
It is pitiable, isn't it? And even then with such a consciousness you cannot<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>enjoy
beauty, for the anguish of desire will pursue you. You lose true enjoyment but
do not get anything in return. There is no happiness in desiring something. It
only puts you in an unhappy state.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Buddha
also said that there was a greater joy in overcoming a desire than in
satisfying it. Everybody can make this experiment and have the experience. It
is quite interesting to do so.</p>

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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When you give up a desire, there occurs at
the moment an inner communion with your psychic being and that is why one gets
a greater joy in rejecting a desire than in fulfilling it. Besides, when you do
satisfy your desire always there is a bitter after­taste somewhere. There is no
desire which when satisfied does not leave this bitterness in you, as when you
have taken some­thing very sweet, the mouth becomes full of a bitter taste. The
nature of desire is like that. You must try to throw it away, but sincerely.
You must not pretend doing it and keep the thing in a comer. In that case it
will surely bring misery to you.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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