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Nope, nope, not that one.

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Can there be desire?

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Oh, okay.

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I don't see anything selected, so I just picked the top one.

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Okay.

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Can there be desire that isn't harmful?

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It's semantics.

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I can't really answer this question, because you have to tell me what you mean by desire.

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I don't think there can, because I define desire as actually wanting something.

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Even that is ambiguous.

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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.

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But those few cases do exist, like a person who desires to be free from suffering, a person who wants to practice meditation.

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They're used in a

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I believe the word is a semantic sense, not a literal sense, figurative sense maybe.

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In certain cases a person can express those desires and wants without actually wanting or desiring anything.

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It's a figure of speech.

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So when I say I want to practice meditation, it may not be that I actually want

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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.

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But I don't consider that to be desire, so I would consider every desire is harmful.

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But there are big arguments about this that are really just semantics, so it's kind of silly.