Recently watched this movie called Beowulf, this movie is based on the epic poem written by some anonymous poet. If looked from the superficial point of view it’s the hero fighting with the dragon and other enemies but if we go deeper into this movie we will see that this movie is talking about the vicious circle of endless desire.
The one who start conquering the small desire come to a point where he also faces the mother of all the desires. Beowulf in the man who is in everybody, he is young, he is energetic, enthusiastic, confident, powerful and he is the one who has come fresh from God and this is how everybody comes from God and one day he starts going beyond the desire and in doing so he kills many sons of mother desire.
And in doing so he actually gives the ultimate challenge to the mother of desire but when Beowulf faces her, he starts losing his strength and control because this desire seems to be the ultimate and gives many promises to him and also she appears as the most beautiful woman which depicts that sex is the last and the mother of all the desire and the one who is ready to go beyond sex, he is ready to go beyond desire.
Whenever he listens to this mother desire, she gives birth to more desires resulting in destruction and failure of his kingdom and control.
When I was watching this movie this message came within me that the desire returns in many forms, the mind try to survive in every possible way and this is what is happening to man that every time he listens to the desire, to the mind, he falls again and again creating hell for himself but the moment he starts going beyond the desire the master, the king starts returning creating heaven for himself.
Man has a choice to be a Beowulf and fall or he can be a Buddha and rise....
Love
Siddhartha
Comments
I am just a fellow reader, but desires can be our downfall. Once the strong desire not to have desires is satisfied, it should go away leaving us desireless. There is no contradiction in having this "strong desire," as we are aware it will eventually go away as well.
By the way, I feel that it is possible to feel compassion and be desireless. I think that acting in accord with our true nature is different than acting out of attachment/desire.