The fact that desire feels tension toward a possible object is grounded in the lack of the object in the actual reality. The subjective emotion toward lack is lonesomeness. It is self-evident that a human being so long as one exists as an individual, brings feelings that desire the continuation of existing, as well as the lonesomness of individuality. We can say that the individual is where desire and lonesomeness are. The life of lonesomeness is found where an emanation of benevolence and a concentration of love breathe at the same time. How does desire develop? Once desire is fulfilled, tension relaxes and the feeling of satisfaction arises. Satisfaction is a loose feeling of pleasure.

I am silent,
Content
Being with another person--
The breeze comes
And scatters the pine needles.

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