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The other day, I came across this meme based on Mr Gotcha:

Buddah carrying sticks says ‘desire is the foundation of all suggering’ followed by a man poping out of a well saying ‘and yet you desire to be free of desire, curious. I own many rare funko pops’

I did learn about Buddhism in a class, but I forgot about how they believe that desire and ignorance is the cause of all suffering and its goal is to eliminate desire.

To understand this, I looked it up and came across the Buddhism Stack Exchange and got this:

Two web pages with arrows pointing to each other from links within them

Recursive duplicates, nice.

If you’re curious as to the answer, here it is but the idea is that once you eliminate desire, you no longer desire to eliminate desire.