When "desire" is GOOD in Buddhism

The Buddha's [distinction] about "desire" that Western Buddhism gets wrong

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(The Midnight Library) July 10, 2026: [Theravada] Buddhism is often described as a tradition that teaches us to eliminate "desire." This is one of the most persistent misreadings in the history of the Western encounter with Eastern philosophy.

The ancient Pali canon makes a precise distinction between two words that, in English, may both be rendered as "desire," but they are almost opposites.

Tanha is compulsive "craving" driven by a sense of lack — whereas chanda is "aspiration" driven by genuine vision.

The Buddha actively encouraged chanda ("desire," "aspiration," "will," "intention") while working to release tanha ("desire," "craving," lit. "thirst").

Simplistic and wrong: Buddhism explained in 1 minute! - Misunderstanding the term "desire"

Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Wolfram Schultz, MD, at Cambridge University, England, documented that the dopamine reward system produces more activation in anticipation (wanting) than in satisfaction (getting) — confirming the structural mechanism of tanha (craving) 2,600 years after the Buddha described it.

• Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Behave

The Craving Mind (Dr. Judson Brewer)

Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, MD, who studies the default mode network at Brown University confirmed in The Craving Mind (2017) that mindful [dispassionate detached attention to what is happening in the present moment without moving towards the pleasant, away from the unpleasant, or being confused/bored by the neutral] observation of craving interrupts the compulsive cycle measurably.

• Tara Brach: Meditation teacher, psychologist, author

Radical Acceptance (Dr. Tara Brach, PhD)

Three Buddhist practices drawn directly from the Pali canon: The R.A.I.N. practice, the aspiration question, and the satiation experiment.

• Recognize, name what is present
• Allow, do not react (chase, act on, suppress, check out, do not crave, resist, or go dull in boredom/confusion), let it be present (radical acceptance)
• Investigate, what does it feel like, where is it located in the body, what is its texture?
• Nurture, bring kindness to the experience, not to the craving itself but to the part of you experiencing it
• "This practice interrupts the automatic cycle of trigger to craving to behavior and creates a gap in which choice becomes possible."
• "Prof. Brewer's research has confirmed that this gap created through mindful [dispassionate, equanimous, attentive, vigilant, wakeful, unbiased] observation of craving measurably reduces the compulsive quality of tanha [craving, addiction, obsession, compulsion] over time."

"The Craving Mind"

(Clear Mountain Monastery Project) The Craving Mind and the Default

Mode [Network]’s Addiction to Self | Dr. Judson Brewer. MD, PhD

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  BIO: Dr. Judson Brewer, MD, PhD (aka "Dr. Jud"), is a New York Times best-selling author and pioneering psychiatrist blending cutting-edge neuroscience with 20+ years of Buddhist mindfulness training. A leader in the science of habit change, he is director of research at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center and has held positions at MIT, Yale U., and UMass. Dr. Jud developed app-based programs like Mindshift Recovery, Unwinding Anxiety, Eat Right Now, and Craving to Quit, clinically proven to treat anxiety, addiction, and emotional eating. He’s the author of The Craving Mind, Unwinding Anxiety, and The Hunger Habit, and co-founder of the nonprofit Mindshift Recovery. He is also a collaborator with Clear Mountaineers and medical researchers Dori Rosenberg and Dave Arterburn. More

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Why ME? The 'Law' of Karma

(Buddhist Audio books) Invisible Law Controls Our Life: Kamma (Karma) in Buddhist Abhidhamma

First of all, what is Abhidhamma? It is the systematic treatment of the Dharma, the Buddha's Teachings, in ultimate terms.

Second, what is karma in Buddhism? It is a deed, willed action, which the Buddha divided as either physical, verbal, or mental, singling out intention or motivation (cetana) as the key to determining what it is and what it will produce.

If I do something, why I do it matters. A Manhattanite is walking down the boulevard on a dark and rainy night. She looks down an alley as see me over someone, lifting a blade that glints in the light of a dingy streetlamp about to bring down a blade on the body.

There's always a solution, a fix it.

What's happening? Can we judge? What's the karma (deed, action, doing)? She screams, "bloody murder!" and I look up and show her my scalpel. She looks down and sees a woman on the ground unable to breathe. And I explain that I was about to stab her in the throat, draw blood, and let air into her windpipe because she has something jammed into her mouth and is about to go unconscious and die if I do not intervene. "Oh, are you a doctor?" she asks me. "No, of course not, but I do watch lots of reruns of MacGyver," I answer.

Now that we know all this, what's the karma? The horrible act of attempted murder or the exact opposite, the precious act of preserving life?

It's hard to say, so we should reserve judgment at least a little, until we can discern my MOTIVE, my INTENTION, my VOLITION, my cetanā or underlying impulse to act.

The Roots of Good and Evil: Buddhist Texts

That mental motive is the real "karma," the real determinant of the deed, and it doesn't matter what others think, approve of, or condemn. She may hate me, she may get a beat cop to shoot me to prevent what she thinks is going on, a judge may imprison me based on her testimony, but all of that is HER karma, not mine. I will be "judged" impersonally by myself or the universe for what I was actually doing when that ACT matures and comes to fruition.

Importantly, there are only six root motives for an action, a deed, any kind of karma. See The Roots of Good and Evil: Buddhist Texts translated from the Pali (Buddhist Publication Society, Wheel Series 251-253) by Western monk Ven. Nyanaponika Thera.

There are other divisions, such as the Ten COURSES (kamma-patha) of Unwholesome Action and, of course, Ten Courses of Wholesome Action. There are probably millions of deeds, but getting to the root (radix, radical) of the matter, we have only six roots:

1. greed (lobha, lust, craving, clinging, desire, wanting)
2. hatred (dosa, aversion, fear, anger, annoyance, ill-will)
3. delusion (moha, ignorance, wrong views, confusion)
4. nongreed (alobha, letting go, selflessness, sharing, giving, generosity, dispassion, detachment)
5. nonhatred (adosa, loving kindness, compassion, mudita or joy in others' joy, unbiased onlooking)
6. nondelusion (amoha, wisdom, knowledge, knowing-and-seeing, understanding, penetration).

• See the Discourse on Right View or Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta.

We can divide karma (acts) into ten kinds:

• Three of body

1. destroying life

2. stealing

3. sexual misconduct

• Four of speech

4. false speech

5. divisive speech

6. offensive speech

7. senseless speech

• Three of mind

8. covetousness

9. malice

10. wrong view.

Ah, what does the Buddha know anyway?

What is there to notice here? Most karma is produced by the mouth or other means of VERBAL expression. The body may do things, but when does it do them that it is not being motivated (directed, willed) by the mind? Not acting out, not speaking out, it is still possible to produce karma (deeds with the power of producing a subsequent result) JUST BY THINKING. There really is mental karma. The RESULTS of karma are not karma, even though we in an offhand, shorthand way often refer to results as karma when we say, "It is my karma," referring to something that happened to us. That is never our karma, technically, but we all understand that what we think we're saying is, "This is a result of my deeds," and that may well be. Not everything that happens is due to karma. There are other causes. But most of the important things that happen to us that we notice and think are unfair, that's likely due to our bright and dark karma. This is a world of mixed results. To live in a world of predominantly bright results, there are karmas (acts) for that. Similarly, to live in a world of darkness and even worse suffering than we have here on the human plane (which is regarded as the lowest of the worlds one can be reborn in that is still considered "good"), there are deeds for that. Unless we get real with ourselves, privately, and recognize our motives, our intentions, what is impelling us to act, we cannot be surprised what we get as a result.

Remember, what we experience is not what we are doing now. We have a massive cache of past karma (from this and countless past lives even if we disbelieve those former lives and rebirths ever happened) that is trying to mature and come to fruition, to ripen and produce results.

The two names for karmic results are vipaka (resultants) and phala (fruits). The distinction seems to be, although we cannot prove it but remember Ven. Nyanatiloka (the Western translator of the Buddhist Dictionary) always making the distinction being mental-resultants and outward-circumstances. If we act, we immediately feel some way about it -- regret, remorse, anxiety about being found out or caught or punished, and so on, or rejoicing, approving, carefree or proud to be found out or recognized or rewarded, and so on, depending on the kind of action.

There is a terrible kind of karma, one that is possibly the worst of all karmas, and what is strange about it is that most of us most of the time would not even think there's anything wrong with in our Western society. What is it?

• What is the worst thing in the karmic world, the producer of the most amount of bad (unskillfulness, demerit, evil, misery)?

Wrong view (micchā ditthi), sometimes manifesting as the perversions or distortions (vipallassa). This is the one to be most wary of, for we will be held responsible for what we think, what views we cling to and act on. If we believe something is good because that's what people around us told us or it's the way we were raised, that DOES NOT make it good or okay. It is what it is, in accordance with the six roots mentioned above, and will produce corresponding results that are either welcomed and wished for or unwelcome and unwished for. Proceed cautiously before acting. A little or a lot of introspection helps.

• Outline of Buddhism

If there were just ONE primer to understand the complexity of karma in Buddhism, Wisdom Quarterly would say it is American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi's treatment of the subject here:

Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Buddha's Teaching: As It Is, Talk 5, "Rebirth and Kamma"

• Buddhist Audio Books (video), June 8, 2025; Bhikkhu Bodhi, "Rebirth and Kamma"; TEXT: Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

3 ways to make karmic merit (sutra)

Ways of Meritorious Action

The Buddha's beauty was based on past karma

"Meditators, there are three ways of making merit [11]. What are the three?

"There are ways of making merit by practicing giving, virtue, and meditation [12].

"One person has only to a small degree practiced the making of merit (good karma) by letting go and giving/sharing and, likewise, only to a small degree practiced making of merit by virtue (skillful conduct), but the making of merit by meditation (mental cultivation) that person has not undertaken at all [13].

"This person, after death, when the body breaks up, will be reborn among humans in unfavorable conditions [14].

"Another person has practiced to a high degree the making of merit by giving as well as by virtue, but the making of merit by meditation one has not undertaken at all. Such a person, after death, when the body breaks up, will be reborn among humans in favorable conditions.

"Or one will be reborn in the company of the deities (devas, lit. "shining ones") of the Four Great Divine (Sky) Regents. There, the Four Great Divine Regents who had practiced to a very high degree the making of merit by giving and by virtue surpass the deities of their realm in ten things:

1. divine lifespan,
2. divine beauty [radiance],
3. divine happiness,
4. divine power,
5. divine sights,
6. divine sounds,
7. divine smells,
8. divine tastes,
9. divine tangibles
10. [divine cognitions].

"Or one will be reborn in the company of the devas of the World of the Thirty-Three. There King of the Devas Sakka, who himself (when he was a human) practiced to a very high degree the making of merit by giving and virtue, surpasses...

• (The same statements are made for rebirth among the Yama-world devas, Tusita-world devas, the devas delighting in creation, the devas controlling others' creations, and for the respective rulers of these celestial realms.)

"These, meditators, are the three ways of making merit" (AN 8.36).

Outcomes of Merit

The Bodhisatta experienced joy for aeons

"Meditators, there are eight outcomes of merit and skillfulness that are the nourishment of happiness and are extremely precious: They yield happiness, lead to rebirth in the [many] heavens, and bring about what is wished for, pleasing, agreeable, and enjoyable. What are these eight?

"Herein [within this Teaching and Training], meditators, a noble disciple goes for guidance to the Buddha (Teacher). This is the first outcome of merit and skillfulness that is a nourishment of happiness and is extremely precious: It yields happiness, leads to rebirth in the heavens, and brings about what is wished for, pleasing, agreeable, and enjoyable.

"Furthermore, there is a noble disciple who goes for guidance to the Dharma (Teaching)...

"Furthermore, there is a noble disciple who goes to the [Noble Community] (the successfully Taught)... This is the second outcome... This is the third outcome...

"There are further, meditators, these five gifts, known from early times, known from long ago, known by tradition, ancient and accepted -- not rejected before, not rejected now, not to be rejected in future -- they are unrepudiated by wise recluses (shramanas) and Brahmins (brahmanas). What are these five gifts?

"Herein [within this Doctrine and Discipline], meditators, a noble disciple gives up the taking of life and abstains from it. By abstaining from taking life, the noble disciple gives to immeasurable beings freedom from fear, gives to them freedom from hostility, gives to them freedom from oppression. By giving to immeasurable beings freedom from fear, hostility, and oppression, one will enjoy immeasurable freedom from fear, hostility, and oppression. This is the first of those great gifts and the fourth of the outcomes of merit (good karma).

"Furthermore, meditators, a noble disciple gives up the taking of what is not given and abstains from it. By abstaining from taking what is not given, the noble disciple gives to immeasurable beings freedom from fear... This is the second of those great gifts and the fifth of the outcomes of merit.

"Furthermore, meditators, a noble disciple gives up sexual misconduct and abstains from it. By abstaining from sexual misconduct, the noble disciple gives to immeasurable beings freedom from fear... This is the third of those great gifts and the sixth of the outcomes of merit.

"Furthermore, meditators, a noble disciple gives up wrong speech [bearing false witness, harsh speech, divisive speech, frivolous speech] and abstains from it. By abstaining from wrong speech, the noble disciple gives to immeasurable beings freedom from fear... This is the fourth of those great gifts and the seventh of the outcomes of merit.

"Furthermore, meditators, a noble disciple gives up intoxicating drinks and drugs that cause heedlessness and abstains from them. By abstaining from intoxicating drinks and drugs, the noble disciple gives to immeasurable beings freedom from fear, freedom from hostility, and freedom from oppression. By giving to immeasurable beings freedom from fear, hostility, and oppression, one will enjoy immeasurable freedom from fear, freedom, from hostility and freedom from oppression. This is the fifth of those great gifts and the eighth of the outcomes of merit.

"Meditators, these are the eight outcomes of merit and skillfulness that are the nourishment of happiness and are extremely precious: They yield happiness, lead to rebirth in the heavens, and bring about what is wished for, pleasing, agreeable, and enjoyable" (AN 8.39).

• Based on a Pali canon anthology by Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (trans.) Anguttara Nikaya: The Discourse Collection in Numerical Order (accesstoinsight.org) updated by Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Seven things I hate about being hot

Katty Purry: I'm the hottest, sexiest, most charming popstar there will ever be!

I'll let my body do my talking for me, and I don't need to claim anything (Emy/unsplash.com).

Old, rich, and hot? It's a dream come true

(Christine Stevens) I know, it sounds pretty lame, this title. But just today someone wrote an article:

“Hot people complain about the ‘horrible experience’ of being good-looking” is the title of this article written by Alex Mitchell, who is a guy -- not exactly a hot guy either. I don’t mean to be judgy, but go ahead, look him up.

He probably really hates hot women because they have failed to respond to his particular brand of erudition, working for this great newspaper called The New York Post. Yeah, it’s pro-Trump.

That was his subtitle, not mine: “What a pity to be pretty.”

And even though he called his article “Hot people,” the entirety of the article focuses on, surprise-surprise, hot women.

Did the Buddha by any chance teach people how to become more beautiful? - Yes. Karma.

Yesterday's "hot" is "meh" today, and they don't even have that! It's gone, so it's on to the next...

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Yoga is the way to health and hotness

He doesn’t get into how hard it is to be a hot guy — because maybe it’s not that hard. I don’t know.

So here are the things Alex Mitchell, dripping with resentment, writes about “pitiful” hot women and their travails:

— People assume they are dumb because they are hot.

Shush. Maybe it's all in the eye of the beholder.

— Married women think hot women are after their husbands. (Really? I had no idea that was a thing -- mate poaching?) More:

• Seven Things I Hate About Being Hot | by Christine Stevens | The Haven | Sept. 2024 | Medium
• AUTHOR: Christine Stevens (medium.com)
• Tom Hanks as a California teen and 39 more fascinating photos of what the world looked like in 1972 (eBaum)
• 12 types of women who make very bad partners
• Relationships: 12 things men look for in a woman and definitely want in a wife
• The best college on the east coast isn't an Ivy League school, according to data: See the Top 50



The more beautiful I am, the worse they seem!

• You’re not even going to recognize my butt after I get through with this Peloton! Revenge is best served hot — by a smokin’ new bootie.
• New Meta AR glasses tell you exactly what it will cost to date a person, and they might just save you a whole lotta grief
• Christine Stevens, Medium, 9/25/24; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ajahn Brahm: What's right? Complaint danger

The Dangers of Complaining | Ajahn Brahm | March 1st

(Buddhist Society of Western Australia) Streamed live on March 1st, 2024: BUDDHIST SOCIETY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: DHAMMALOKA CITY CENTRE.

Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung (Ajahn Brahm)

Why do we complain? [Perfection is the enemy of the good.] Theoretical physicist Ajahn Brahm explains the dangers of cultivating a fault-finding mind and the benefits of praise and looking for the positive.

Ajahn encourages us to put our energy into positive things. Outlook is everything. If we have a choice what to look for, praise will pay off much more than complaints.

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• Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

DAD: When's right age to start meditating?

Dhr. Seven (poet), Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

My baby's a biohazard raised on mother's milk.

The job of a dad is not easy. A mom's job is easy: just do everything. But a dad's job, that's tough. Just do somethings. But do them right or else! A mother is a parent by virtue of giving birth. A father only becomes a parent by virtue of doing certain things right.

Who, what, where, when? That's all TBD (to be determined), but suffice it to say family, parenting, anywhere, anytime. It's not fair. There was no preparation for it. A man barely gets a run through when he's the child. And even with that extended period of time, it's not enough.

No one's complaining. Society gives conflicting orders, and we just get by, head down, always trying to remember to get THE LAST WORD IN, in any argument, which usually sounds something like, "Yes, dear."

Raise it, Abrahamic, B*tch! - No, Dad, Dharmic

Ah, to have a child. No one wants to raise it in the crumby religions of our forefathers. Those are clearly not the way to go, as instructional as they may be. Having been born in them, one knows they are severely lacking. "Go, son, be like Siddhartha; go to the back yard, jump the fence, and seek your enlightenment!" might be a good thing to say to the Little Prince. His mom would have your head on a shish kebab skewer. Plus you love the guy.

All in the Family: Ven. Bimba (Bhaddha Kaccana), aka Rahulamata (Princess Yasodhara), was not far off for a reunited family striving together to gain knowledge and vision of the Truth to make an end of all suffering with Ananda right there, too.

It's springtime for carpenter-royals.

The Buddha didn't do that to his son. The Buddha's dad didn't do it to him. I've got it! I'm going to pamper and spoil my boy!

I'll build him a summer palace by the pool, a winter palace in the loft where all the heat rises, and in the spring, I'll build him a tree house so he can peruse his "Shakya Land" with terrestrial binoculars and a celestial telescope. Then he'll never want to leave. He'll inherit the throne and live here! His mom will love that.

Son, let's visit Kindred Spirits (DF)

Maybe we can get a vegan farm, pet cows, protect chickens, and grow lots of greens in raised beds -- rainbow chard, kale, collard, amaranth, basil, lemongrass, sweet anise... We can homeschool him with all his friends and shoot pineapples with bows and arrows, build wigwams and teepees, make a pond? It'll be the biggest little farm Mark II in the world, like the film, not built on death but on tremendous health and yoga.

There are seven limbs to get to these poses.

He already does yoga because I do. We all do. Kids are inquisitive and will mimic what we adults model. Headstand? No problem. Full lotus? No problem. Downward Dog? Loves it. Buttstand? Problem.

Just sitting there for any extended period of time, it's just not on. He'd sooner nap than sit still. So we OM, and we chant, and we laugh, and we sing, but quieting down again, ooh boy, society is not set up for that. Too much stimulation, too much screentime, to many smells and colors, lights and sounds. And all that Little Einstein reading in the womb probably didn't help.

Wait till your father gets home, Rahula. Oh, there he is! Go ask him for your inheritance.

Hm, what could I give you as your noble inheritance? Enlightenment! - Sounds good, Dad.

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You teach him, Sariputra. He'll listen now.

Age 7! That's the perfect age to begin a serenity meditation practice. That's the age the Buddha chose for his son, Little Prince Rahula, and he really got him to commit. Everyone was so mad, but Rahula reached enlightenment in his teens, knowing and seeing under the tutelage of the Buddha's male disciple foremost in wisdom, Ven. Sariputra. If he had a daughter, she would have been taught by the Buddha's female disciple foremost in wisdom, Ven. Khema.

Sutra: Simile of Elephant's Footprint (MN 28)

 

Sutra Study: Middle Length Discourse, Simile of the Elephant's Footprint (MN 28) with American monk Abbot Bhante Suddhaso (Buddhist Insights @ Empty Cloud) Ven. Suddhaso translates MN 28 from the exclusively Buddhist language Pāli, while explaining the meaning of the discourse.

• READ: MN 28: Mahā Hatthipadopama Sutta—translated by American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi (suttacentral.net)

World's 100 Most Beautiful Women 2022

TC Candler (IG); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) via Pooja 5/12/22, Wisdom Quarterly

Adriana Lima is in the Top 10 Most Beautiful Women 2022 (scrolldroll.com)

Beyonce Knowles, the Black blond from the music industry is highly rated with Becky hair.

• MATH: Top 10 World's Most Beautiful Women announced
• Top 10 Most Beautiful Women in the World | Oct. 2022

27 Gorgeous Girls (pinterest.com)

The list of the Most Beautiful Women in the World 2022 is given by fans (using the "Golden Ratio" for symmetry).

Fans choose and select the 100 most beautiful. "Beauty" doesn't just mean appearance. It has to do with character and attitude. They are chosen by votes cast by fans based on personal preferences. They are nominated to find the winner for 2022.

Bold? I think I'm hotter than all these b*tches.

People cherish a woman with a bold attitude, social skills, charm, attitude, cute looks and style attractive to fans. Along with the ranking, is she cherished by the media, industry, and judges? People are anxious to get acquainted.

Nominations and voting are conducted by TC Candler on Instagram. Since the voting is live online, winners are declared live, no cheating (but a lot of rallying as organized by pricey PR agencies).

Ranking 100 Most Beautiful Women in the World 2022

Latina "Wonder Woman" Lynda Carter set a high bar (The 'Good ol' Days' (definition.org)

Top 10 most beautiful women of Ethiopia, Africa (wonderslist.com)

Miss Turkey 2022, Turkey’s most beautiful girl has been announced (postsen.com)

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Without-beauty comes from within.

1 Lalisa Manobal (Lisa)

2 Emilie Nereng

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6 Yael Shelbia

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Suggestions of newly nubile sex (fecundity) is the secret. F me eyes, pouty lips...

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Computer generated fashion creation: Black Dall-e Uh (Fall Winter 2022 – Labucq)

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