What's the difference between desire (chanda) and craving (tanha)? From my understanding, tanha is always unwholesome but chanda can be wholesome or unwholesome.

Sep 26, 2019 · Chanda is when the child saw a puppet in the toy store, and having come home keeps asking mom to buy the puppet. And the mom says, "but what are you gonna do with it, …

Apr 9, 2021 · Chanda is a reason for Tanha. Ignorance (Avidya) is the cause for Chanda means it's the cause for Tanha. Then Tanha causes to increases the Chanda 's density towards …

Sep 11, 2016 · Here, chanda is clearly a word for right effort (sammā vāyāma). The Commentaries regard this as a wholesome desire (kusala-c,chanda), a spiritual desire (or …

Apr 23, 2015 · Wikipedia's Contrast to wholesome desire (chanda) says, The Buddhist teachings contrast the reflexive, self-centered desire of taṇhā with wholesome types of desire, such as …

Jul 10, 2021 · What is the "sensual desire" described as one of the fetters, which is: Reduced or weakened in a once-returner Abandoned in a non-returner Are kāmarāga and …

May 8, 2023 · And if one has the desire to be reborn repeatedly, then it is a cause of suffering. (Bhava tanha) But the desire to paractice the correct path (related with dependent origination) …

Aug 13, 2022 · And in reply to that, Buddhism distinguishes between wholesome and unwholesome desires -- i.e. taṇhā (which is referenced in the Second Noble Truth), and …

If chanda arises and the wanting is right-aspiration then we choose to follow that thought, however, we don't attach to it so that when our efforts don't get us what we wanted we don't …

Chanda can be used in two different ways. In “kämachanda”, it is mind blinded by käma or sense pleasures. So it is like Tanha. In this case “Chanda” wrapping one’s mind with samma vaca, …