Hypothesis
Desire is caused by neuroses.
I'm not talking about basic desires like the need for food and stuff, but rather everything else. I think I'm going to classify lust as a basic desire. (The desire for specific sorts of people, however, that totally falls into what I'm talking about. Personality-wise, not gender-wise.)
Therefore, desire (and the Buddhist suffering it brings) can be curbed by proper management of your neuroses, rather than trying to stop the desire directly. And of course I'm not talking about ignoring and/or cutting off your neuroses, but the more complicated process of understanding and loving those weird little complexes that make us us.
I'm not talking about basic desires like the need for food and stuff, but rather everything else. I think I'm going to classify lust as a basic desire. (The desire for specific sorts of people, however, that totally falls into what I'm talking about. Personality-wise, not gender-wise.)
Therefore, desire (and the Buddhist suffering it brings) can be curbed by proper management of your neuroses, rather than trying to stop the desire directly. And of course I'm not talking about ignoring and/or cutting off your neuroses, but the more complicated process of understanding and loving those weird little complexes that make us us.