Schopenhauer really takes oath of a Buddhist perspective. Describing how happiness is very short lived, our desires is a reflection of pain that we put upon ourselves and the gratitude of obtaining the desire or want dissolves shortly after to another desire or want. While he relates this to such an epic or poem how there is a desire or dispute that creates a burden such as how we feel on this planet on a consistent basis. Then we find relief after obtaining it.
This struck me most to come up with the idea he is really excepting Buddhism as a valued religion. "For desire, that is to say, want, is the precedent condition of every pleasure; but with the satisfaction, the desire and therefore the pleasure cease; and so the satification or gratification can never be more than deliverance from pain, from a want." (319)
Therefore, in all actuality Schopenhauer in my view believes such as a Buddhist monk, we shouldn't desire anything.. However, isn't desiring nothing to obtain the absence of devistation , still a desire?
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