The path to pleasure eventually leads us to pain
In America today, everyone is busy chasing
More money
Nicer car
Better house
Food in belly
We are brought up experiencing things
So we learn very early on that more money = more pleasure.
The path of pleasure is comforting.
On a bad day we can eat some good food or watch a nice movie. Instantly we feel the comfort and joy…
It’s a good strategy for a bad day.
Yet it’s a poor strategy for a good life.
Why? The more you experience something good the more familiar it becomes.
Something familiar quickly becomes boring and you must find an alternative.
It’s a common belief that if you could have enough money you would just be happy all the time.
Just like a fool thinking with a sweet treat every day he will always be happy. One day you will need two sweet treats. And one day not even 10 will bring you joy.
If you had unlimited money you would find out very soon that things don’t bring us joy.
You create joy. With your mind and body.
Society fools us into believing joy comes from things. But the truth is your body creates joy when you discover a thing that promotes a nice experience.
Like all things in life, This experience quickly changes, and the results can take you backwards.
Don’t chase things for a happy life.
Seeking more joy and pleasure will cause you immediate misery followed by temporary joy in future experiences.
Instead learn to know yourself. Do this and you will experience joy and gratitude everyday without trying.
Sit quietly with yourself for 5 minutes. Can your mind be silent without wandering? Are you always in thought? Do you know who you are? What you are?
You are one of the most biological advanced beings in the cosmos, and you are seeking some simple toy or treat for promoting your joy.
If I could put it into words, it would be like you are the sun, and you are seeking heat (joy)from a man made fire on earth.
You create joy it doesn’t come from things outside you.
Know yourself and you will experience it.
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Sadly, some people seek happiness in the material, in external things, but true happiness is inside each one, when the person has internal peace.
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Material things are just a distraction, they only give a temporary happiness, true happiness is in conforming to the supreme laws, having a balance between the material and the spiritual.
Life is not measured by material things, but rather by the good actions we have, which fill us with happiness, the rest just leaves a void and pain.
The people who are busy in chasing wealth they will spend their life to have it but they can't enjoy the life.
When you want more to become happier, it ultimately leads us to enormous sorrows, pains and instability.
You are gocusing on an important issue. Our pains are caused of our wants. If we would be happy with what we have, then there were no pains and sorrows. We want more and more even though we have enough. That leads us to unhappiness.
Pleasure of mind and get satisfaction in small can give you a very happy life.