Where Does Hunger Stop?
I’d like to ask if in the Kingdom of God, or in whatever place God is, whether according to the scriptures of Christianity or any other religion, when we’re with God can hunger and desire stop? If the Kingdom of God is the end of hunger and craving, then it’s the same thing as Buddhism teaches: nibbana, or the happiness that is beyond the world because hunger has ended. But if we understand the Kingdom of God differently, if it is a place where we still hunger, then Buddhism isn’t interested. Endless desire for better and better things to take as one’s own is not the goal of Buddhism. Buddhism takes the fork in the road that leads beyond the world. As for this thing we call ‘the world’, in the Buddhist description it is divided into many levels, realms, or wanderings. There’s the common human world, with which we’re most familiar, and its human types of sukha. Above this are the various heavenly realms where the devas supposedly live. First, there are the sensual wanderings, the kamava
