The Buddha said that desire is the cause of all sufferingthe root of all suffering. Desire is a very powerful force. Its got to be if its going to have that much power that it can cause all of the suffering in the world. He didnt say most of the suffering or a lot of the suffering, but all of it-every single contraction of being is caused simply by desire. So, its a very powerful force. So, its worth looking into this thing that can cause all of the suffering you have ever experienced.
One of the things you can notice about desirea very obvious thing that gets overlookedis that every desire is a lie. Every desire is based on the idea that things can be different than they are, and thats just never been true. Things have never been different than they are in that moment. You can even see how this lie might come to be because things almost always are different than they were, but they just are never different than they are. They are always the way they are. So, in observing this, we start to think that we can take this constantly changing the way things are and decide how its going to be next. Thats also based on a lie. You can just look in your own experience. How often...