When we think of desire we usually think of sex or something else we like and want, but enemies and friends, or likes and dislikes are only people, or things we know. Meaning they may be opposites but it is the conceptiual framework which places them in one or the other "camp", and then even someone who is an enemy now can be a friend later, and vice versa.
A Taoist saying “The acceptable and unacceptable are both acceptable” or to put it in current context, desire, is desire. Some people may prefer something another finds disgusting, or unpleasant, yet others do things which are harmful or dangerous due to pleasure seeking. As the saying goes "there is no explanation for taste."
No matter what we like or hate it is still desire, revulsion maybe the opposite of attraction but that doesn't mean it is not a form of desire, as desire is by the dictionary definition "to want something very strongly" and both attraction and revulsion is that, a strong want which can be categorized by the push or pull we experience.
A Taoist saying “The acceptable and unacceptable are both acceptable” or to put it in current context, desire, is desire. Some people may prefer something another finds disgusting, or unpleasant, yet others do things which are harmful or dangerous due to pleasure seeking. As the saying goes "there is no explanation for taste."
No matter what we like or hate it is still desire, revulsion maybe the opposite of attraction but that doesn't mean it is not a form of desire, as desire is by the dictionary definition "to want something very strongly" and both attraction and revulsion is that, a strong want which can be categorized by the push or pull we experience.
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