How do you have achieve a state of non-desire if you have to

>>7586503
By losing the desire to achieve non-desire. It is only when we are truly lost that we may find ourselves, Govinda.

By not using shitty translations

>>7586503
The first comment is right. Be apathetic to non-desire and you will have achieved it already.

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>>7586503


Desire is alright, it's okay, even the Dalai Lama has said this. Craving is what you should watch out for, because craving in any form is painful, whereas desire, like the desire to help people or to become enlightened, can be very beneficial.


http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/blog/2010/Mar/9/dalai-lama-buddha-nature/
"In order to develop unbiased infinite love, you first need the practice of detach[ment]. But "detach" does not mean to give up desire. Desire must be there. Without desire, how can we live our life? Without desire, how can we achieve Buddhahood?"

This Philosophy of Buddhism is self-contradictory or self-defeating because the third truth says ‘suffering and misery can be removed by removing desire’ and the fourth truth says that 'desire can be removed by following the Eight Fold Path'.

Now, for any person to follow Buddhism he should first have the desire to follow the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path. The Third great Noble Truth says that desire should be removed. Once you remove desire, how can we follow the Fourth Noble truth i.e. follow the Eight Fold Path unless we have a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. In short desire can only be removed by having a desire to follow the Eight Fold Path. If you do not follow the Eight Fold Path, desire cannot be removed. It is self contradicting as well as self-defeating to say that desire will only be removed by continuously having a desire.

>>7586660
So, in other words, Buddhism is a scam.

>>7586660


Desire was never vilified in Buddhism. The very concept of wanting anything at all being intrinsically evil is a meme perpetrated by bad translations and the uninformed.