Nope, nope, not that one.
Can there be desire?
Oh, okay.
I don't see anything selected, so I just picked the top one.
Okay.
Can there be desire that isn't harmful?
It's semantics.
I can't really answer this question, because you have to tell me what you mean by desire.
I don't think there can, because I define desire as actually wanting something.
Even that is ambiguous.
There are very few cases where the words wanting or desire could be used that I wouldn't call a case of craving and therefore harm.
But those few cases do exist, like a person who desires to be free from suffering, a person who wants to practice meditation.
They're used in a
I believe the word is a semantic sense, not a literal sense, figurative sense maybe.
In certain cases a person can express those desires and wants without actually wanting or desiring anything.
It's a figure of speech.
So when I say I want to practice meditation, it may not be that I actually want
want that experience, but it's a way of saying that now I'm going to practice meditation because I have the wisdom to know that meditation is the right thing to do at this point.
But I don't consider that to be desire, so I would consider every desire is harmful.
But there are big arguments about this that are really just semantics, so it's kind of silly.