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Desires according to Kamasi Washington and Buddha

 I'm a bit ambiguous desires - are they good or bad?

Desire is the opening track on the album Harmony of differences by Kamasi Washington.

Kamasi explains that if you want to find truth you have start with a desire for it.

This peace is named "Desire":



Kamasi says i an interview  “I’m always studying, always searching, always trying to find something new to inspire me.” 
He also says that he wants to unite people, even if diversity is needed. 
that means not condemn the ones that are not like you. 

Desire is also what makes the eagle good to fly and the rabbit good at running from the eagle.

But as Kamasi's words explains; Desire will never be satisfied. 


Joseph Goldberg, author about and practitioner of meditation write about dreaming of things in the future;

"Certain kinds of expectations are so seductive because they masquerade as dharma aspirations. But there’s a big difference between aspiration and expectation. Aspirations can inspire us. We might have an aspiration for awakening, for example, or an aspiration to become more compassionate. That sets a direction for us. Aspiration can be beautiful and ennobling. Expectation, however, leads us into the agitation of hope and fear. When there is expectation, we’re hoping that something we want will happen and we fear that it won’t. That’s a very different experience from aspiration."


He is quoting Buddha:

Not reviving the past. Not hoping to be in the future. Instead, with insight, see each arising state, not craving after past experience, not setting one’s heart on the future ones, not bound up in desire and craving.

Goldberg goes on;

HHere is a traditional meditation instruction: Notice when your mind is reviving the past or longing for something in the future; then, with each arising state come back to the present, even if just for short periods of time.

It is said that on the morning the Buddha experienced full enlightenment, he thought: “Realized is the unconditioned; achieved is the end of craving.” He is saying so clearly that the nature of the liberated mind is freedom from craving—from desire for sense pleasures and craving for becoming. And we can practice this in any moment and aspire to its complete fulfillment.This is true happiness. It is not beyond reach."

Im not sure of that; Nagarjuna,  the Mahayans Buddhist from the 200 century ce,  wrote that not even Buddha or Nirvana has an essence. 

Anyway meditation can help in many ways. Unfortunately it´s not a miracle cure. 

Here's a serious study of benefits of meditation from National Library of Medicin, 2012:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4109722/



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