on passion

in conversation with a friend today, i was asked if my goal of detachment involved a desire to not feel passion. but passion was not something i had pondered over enough yet, so i hesitated to use the word and make any unintrospected claims. in a subsequent effort to make sense of it, i see it merely as a surge of energy toward a particular purpose. that purpose could be a cause, could be work, could be a person, could be a dream... just as we must (well, i feel that i must, at least) aim to channel our various energies in constructive and meaningful ways, so is it with passion. we may be passionate about a cause that is destructive... if so, may we acquire the strength to veer ourselves from it and channel that energy elsewhere and more positively. on the other hand, if we do ascertain a cause that we could constructively aim to work towards, then may we be so strong as to channel our energies such that we feel passionately towards this cause.

passion, like all other 'good' and 'evil', is good and desirable when it is for a constructive, positive cause. undesirable, otherwise.