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Undesirable Seed of Selfish Desire
The mind is a factory manufacturing desires in all of us;
Human beings believe that you can find happiness if you pursue selfish satisfaction to the detriment of people around you.
But I want to tell you that unselfish desires and humane motivation and ambition alleviate the sufferings of people around you and also contribute to their welfare.
Greedy / Selfish Desires
(1) Power
(2) Prestige
(3) Profit
(4) Pleasure
I, John have an ambition. In fact, I am the most ambitious person and that is to reduce myself to zero level; to do away completely with selfish desires; transform any selfish desire into selfless desire; to see that everybody in the world has:
(1) Shelter
(2) Clothing
(3) Enough food to eat
A man driven by a desire for money looks at the world and says, “How can I turn it into my personal estate”.
He is conditioned to believe that when he fulfills this desire he will find lasting satisfaction.
Take for example a person who desires to eat fish pepper soup in his mind and then goes and buys and eats it to his…