What would a life without any wants look like? — schopenhauer1
No. It's not like that. I can speak about it. Tranquil, yes. But the day to day things you want to do, you do it without anxiety or worry. You sleep better at night. You have more energy.What would a life without any wants look like? Is this like purely tranquil sitting and never getting up? — schopenhauer1
What would a life without any wants look like? — schopenhauer1
Even jellyfish want light. — Banno
The wise therefore rule by emptying hearts and stuffing bellies,
by weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
If people lack knowledge and desire,
then intellectuals will not try to interfere.
If nothing is done, then all will be well — Tao Te Ching, ch3
What would a life without any wants look like? — schopenhauer1
And yeast wants sugar. But there is a difference between the wants that are cellular urges towards needs, and wants that are ideas of the mind created by thought and projected as a better life. — unenlightened
What would a life without any wants look like? — schopenhauer1
It's in the logic of wanting that we should want not to want, as the ostensible goal of wanting, satisfaction, extinguishes want. But yeah, seems like consciousness just is fundamentally want or the subject is, along Lacanian (and Zizekian-- hey hey Mikie ) lines, a lack or hole in reality representing desire because filling it in fills our own graves. — Baden
In a world where all is unstable, and nought can endure, but is swept onwards at once in the hurrying whirlpool of change; where a man, if he is to keep erect at all, must always be advancing and moving, like an acrobat on a rope—in such a world, happiness is inconceivable. How can it dwell where, as Plato says, continual Becoming and never Being is the sole form of existence? In the first place, a man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with masts and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over. — Schopenhauer- The Vanity of Existence
But they seem to be sort of polar ends of the self-help / guru mill of philosophy, therapy, and the like. You better find something that engrosses you! You better be more mindful and at peace with just being! — schopenhauer1
How about none of it? — schopenhauer1
Wanting is the centre of thought, wanting to be elsewhere and elsewhen, doing and being and having what is not. — unenlightened
How about none of that? — unenlightened
Engrossing means you are not content now, but you need to "catch the rhythm" to go with your music analogy. — schopenhauer1
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