The little Desire
According to Buddhism, the world we live in is called the desire realm, because the human beings have high desire on the ground that their desire multiple. Many saints left the worldly affairs and sought spiritualism. They know that desire in the world is unlimited, and that the desire goes hand in hand with suffering. In other words, human desire is limitless.
We are not satisfied with those we have and those we got. Still we want more.
Our desire is so high that we almost need everything that appeal to us, except it is impossible. When we see a beautiful car, we wish to have it; when we see an impressive house, we wish to have it too.
The moment we achieve our goal, we enjoy satisfaction. But this gradually disappears. We then draw to new desire and engage to fulfill it. To meet our desire, we might take illegitimate and negative ways, which even plunge us into bar. More we fulfill our desire, more the desire accrue. In common parlance, it seems to be intrinsic part of our life to fulfill goals after goals, almost throughout our life.
Since we got up in the morning till the bed, we talk and work merely to satisfy our desire. It is not exaggeration if I say that we devote our entire life to fulfilling our desire. Though, we are not yet satisfied. It is therefore clear that our desire has no end, and that more desire causes more suffering. So why don’t we develop little desire?
So far we sweat blood to fulfill my desire. The satisfaction derived from the fulfillment disappears quickly. We then grow new desire, and later face the same fate. If we are unable to fulfill desire, we feel the flame of anguish. However, at the end, we come across dissatisfaction and suffering. So it is better to develop little desire.
By considering the function and effect of our desire, we come to know its effect, which would teach us how to deal with it. Let's focus on it.
It is true that we cannot abandon desire. It is also true we can control or reduce its extend and intense. Just as a vehicle needs break for halting, so as our desire.
Satisfaction
The satisfaction is a fundamental requirement for human beings. For satisfaction we are awake and busy. Despite the hard work, we are not able to satisfy. Nor we satisfy with who we are and what we have.
Also, we need everything being best, or at least good.
We hardly think we are fine with who we are, what we have, and what we do. We have high desire. In addition, we are taught to be ambitious, think big, be hungry and so on. As a result, to relish genuine satisfaction is far away. With genuine satisfaction we feel fit to who we are, what we do and what we got; we are fine if we don’t have things that we want and others have.
For some it is enough to live in a small room, and have sufficient cloths and food. For some everything should be luxury, plus branded. Buddha said everything depend on ones mind. So if our mind thinks ok, then it is ok, and if our mind think it is not fine, then it is not fine.
If we do not press to satisfy ourselves, there is no way to be happy no matter who we are, what we do, and what we got.
Now we know it is important to develop satisfaction for real happiness. Let's the word in italics be reverberated in our heart:
"I am fine who I am and what I have. It is also fine if I don't have things that I want and others have."
If you really think it is true and you want to practice, you are half way. And there is no expense to be happy. It is just to modify our way of thinking.
On the whole, we ourselves cultivate both happiness and suffering. By developing satisfaction, we will enjoy happy life, whereas un-satisfaction plunge us into miserable.
Speaking of little desire and satisfaction, we don’t have to throw away our possessions, nor have to stop to move forward. We should work for living; we should have desire; and we should seek the desire. But we should know how to satisfy.
