Want
Posted by Clarity on 28 Dec 2007 at 06:39 pm | Tagged as: Buddhism
“Buddhist practice offers no vaccination for the arising of WANT. Personally, I WANT a new iPod every time a new model comes out, and I’ve been meditating for a pretty long time.”
Ethan Nichtern, One City: A declaration of Interdependence
Me too… 
I tagged you for a meme on my blog. I hope you can find the time to participate
See the post on my page called “Tagged by Precious Metal”
http://tmcg.blogspot.com/
The Buddha never said that we would never want (the first noble truth - suffering is inevitable), but he did say that we can practice non-attachment by staying with the uncomfortable feelings that come with the wanting, while not giving into these feelings. This, he said, will help us to look deeply into the causes of our grasping.
thanks Valerie, very helpful!
tnx TMCG, I’ll try and put something together…