Desire is Not the Problem

Desirelessness is not the solution.

Ultimately, all one can do with that idea is resist desire and seek desirelessness, which is an oxymoron (not even a paradox).

It's that we get too glommed in on a desire.

So, the other translation of the relevant Noble Truth
is that Attachment is the problem.

Closer,
but still no cigar.

It's that we get too glommed in, too attached.

We get sucked in to the gravity of the situation.

Non-attachment, as an ideal, can only be approached via desire,
and then we're supposed to be attached to non-attachment.

Otherwise, we'd allow attachment
and we'd be back where we started before we started learning about the Four Noble Truths.

SO.

The problem is, "too glommed in."

How do we regulate how glommed in we are?

The problem is the "launch platform" for getting glommed in,
which is our "starting state",
which may not be a "blank slate," but a loaded situation,
a situation loaded with our memories,
memories with charges.

Those charges are what make "gloomed in"
too glommed in.

Attention is stuck in the situation more than the situation warrants,
the rest being furnished by the charges of memory
of similar or related things and persons.

The throttle is already open
the engine is revving,
and as soon as we put it in gear,
we start with a jerk and end up going too fast, too quickly
and may have to suddenly
put on the brakes.

That's similar, in energy flow
to being too glommed in.

It's too much, too fast, too suddenly.

Nothing wrong with being involved
nothing wrong with desiring
nothing wrong with being attached.

It's a matter of
how much involved
how much desiring
how much attachment.

Preferably regulated by the present "energy dynamic"
of the present moment,
and so in keeping with it.