/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21036696]

What are some books to help me stop desiring things I do not have?

[Anonymous No.21036714]

>>21036696
nice oxymoron you got there

[Anonymous No.21036718]

>>21036696
WOAH NO DUCK GO BACK INTO THE SCREEN I DON'T WANT YOU HERE QUACKING
GO BACK GO BACK GO BACK

[Anonymous No.21036729]

>>21036696
As an introduction to Epicurus, this was nice.
Also Zen Buddhism and Daoism are eastern versions I like
Don’t fall for the Stoic religion

[Anonymous No.21036757]

>>21036696
A Mind Without Craving by Delson Armstrong

[Anonymous No.21036770]

>>21036696
accept desire get thing

[Anonymous No.21036944]

>>21036714
Fpbp

[Anonymous No.21036979]

>>21036944
First post is moronic post.

[Anonymous No.21037538]

>>21036696
It's called growing up and there aren't any shortcuts.

[Anonymous No.21037679]

>>21036696
William Blake poetry

[Anonymous No.21037683]

>>21037679
I do not desire schizophrenia

[Anonymous No.21037831]

Get into Lacan. Most of what you'll find around his ideology refers to the psychoanalysis of media but it can just as easily apply to mind. Maybe won't help you stop desiring things you don't have, but will help you rationalize it better.

[Anonymous No.21037922]

>>21037683
Not even a teensy drop? You are missing out. This physical existence is secondary to the higher plane.

For all the riches in this world
May be the gifts of the devil or Earthly kings
I should suspect I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my god for earthly things

[Anonymous No.21038167]

Lao Tzu says:

When the way prevails in the empire, fleet-footed horses are relegated to ploughing in the fields;
When the way does not prevail in the empire, war-horses breed on the border.

There is no crime greater than having too many desires;
There is no disaster greater than not being content;
There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.

Hence in being content, one will always have enough.

(46)

I'm firmly convinced no sage ever understood desire better than Lao Tzu. Maybe Siddhartha but he stood on the shoulders of giants.

[Anonymous No.21039234]

[Anonymous No.21039732]

>>21036696
how that duck get outside of picture??

[Anonymous No.21039831]

>>21039234
Or for the ears: http://www.buddhanet.net/audio-lectures.htm

[Anonymous No.21039859]

>>21036696
Horace's first satire

[Anonymous No.21039874]

>>21036696
"I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship."

"Intelligently doth the body purify itself; attempting with intelligence it exalteth itself; to the discerners all impulses sanctify themselves; to the exalted the soul becometh joyful.
Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole"

"Once hadst thou passions and calledst them evil. But now hast thou only thy virtues: they grew out of thy passions.
Thou implantedst thy highest aim into the heart of those passions: then became they thy virtues and joys.
And though thou wert of the race of the hot-tempered, or of the voluptuous, or of the fanatical, or the vindictive; All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils angels.
Once hadst thou wild dogs in thy cellar: but they changed at last into birds and charming songstresses.
Out of thy poisons brewedst thou balsam for thyself; thy cow, affliction, milkedst thou—now drinketh thou the sweet milk of her udder.
And nothing evil groweth in thee any longer, unless it be the evil that groweth out of the conflict of thy virtues."

[Anonymous No.21039960]

>>21037538
It was the opposite for me. As I got older it got easier to obtain the things I wanted because I got a job

Not the same for you?

[Anonymous No.21040121]

>>21037922
Beautiful, thank you

[Anonymous No.21040960]

>>21037922
>I do not desire schizophrenia
>sends a sample of schizophrenia
There’s no “higher plane” but a calmed mind, an excited mind, an empathetic mind. The mind is physically you. Take care of it.

[Anonymous No.21042195]

its a ente

[Anonymous No.21042473]

>>21036696
If you don't desire what you don't have you are basically dead. If you mean to stop buying shit you can't afford, I advise you to stop being a cunt.

[Anonymous No.21042488]

>>21036696
>help me stop desiring things I do not have?

Pic related. Just hate all of that shit to the point where you don't want it. Hate hate hate.