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Some humans live in a state of satisfaction because they have dispensed with desire. This is one of the principles of buddhist enlightenment.

• amatic 3y ago
  I thought so too, but it makes more sense to me that "stop desiring things" is a koan, and not a literal instruction. A koan is like a little paradox, a word problem that a student needs to solve before being allowed to the next "level". The solution is that you cannot stop desiring. Even if you try very hard, you will still have, at the very least, the desire to stop desiring. Source: I've been listening to Alan Watts
  • monkeynotes 3y ago
    > Even if you try very hard This is the paradox, while you are "trying" as you have observed, you are still desiring. Letting go of desire is effortless.
    • adversaryIdiot 3y ago
      Thats so paradoxically cryptic haha
      • shrimp_emoji 3y ago
        It's zen meditation stuff. You have to accept, but detach from, the feeling of desire. You're not trying to fight it; you accept but cease to identify with it. The monk feels the flames consuming his flesh, but he ceases to identify with the sensation, allowing him to sit there, motionless, before dying. (Granted, that's some hardcore non-identification.)