Question: Is not wanting something as good as having it?
Answer: The question is very interesting, intriguing. In order to discuss it further, to refine an answer we need to know our inherent nature, how it works.
Our “matter”, the engine that drives us is an overwhelming, insatiable desire for pleasures, fulfillment for ourselves. We know from experience that when we truly want something we simply can’t stop, can’t rest or even sleep until we can fulfill that desires. We also know that there are methods, teachings, practices to suppress this yearning, but they do not provide fulfillment for the same desire, they try suppressing, diverting it with a different, more important desire.
For example some suppress desires with religious reverence as they make religion, their faith, belonging to other people of faith more important. Others – for example on diet or rehabilitation programs – suppress their craving for food, or for addictive substances with a desire of social acceptance, better health, receiving admiration from others for their deed. etc. Again we use another, stronger desire to suppress a previous one.
But we can’t remain without fulfillment, we can’t leave with unfulfilled desires.
Then on top of it there is a different kind of fulfillment, where we can use our own desires in order to fulfill others, when we can receive anything possible but we pass the fulfillment on to others with a new “software”, new intention. This software also works on a desire and its fulfillment, but the beneficiary, the address of the fulfillment is different.
This kind of fulfillment is already “above” our normal, instinctive, automatically self-serving software, thus it needs to be studied, practiced in a suitable environment until with the help of that environment we become capable of living like that.
Why we would do so, what our fulfillment is in such an “supernatural” kind of existence, only asking for something to pass it onto others? That is another question with a different answer…
Entering The Force-Field 