34220 Y48 Some 2,300 Years Ago Epicurus Warned ...
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HIS DISCIPLES
THAT IMMODERATE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE
IS LIKELY TO MAKE THEM MISERABLE RATHER THAN HAPPY!
A couple of centuries earlier Buddha had made an even more radical claim,
teaching that the pursuit of pleasant sensations ìs ìn fact the very róót of sùffering?
Such sensations are just ephemeral and meaningless vibrations: even when we experience them,
we don't react to them with contentment; rather, we just crave for more. Hence no matter how many blissful
or exciting sensations I may experience, they will never satisfy me...
If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them,
I have no choice but to pursue them constantly? When I finally get them, they quickly disappear, and because
the mere memory of past pleasures will not satisfy me, I have tot start all over again! Even if I continue this
pursuit for decades, it will never bring me any lasting achievement; on the contrary, the more I crave these
pleasant sensations, the more stressed & dissatisfied I will become...
To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down
the pursuit of pleasant sensations.
nòt accelerate
it...
THAT IMMODERATE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE
IS LIKELY TO MAKE THEM MISERABLE RATHER THAN HAPPY!
A couple of centuries earlier Buddha had made an even more radical claim,
teaching that the pursuit of pleasant sensations ìs ìn fact the very róót of sùffering?
Such sensations are just ephemeral and meaningless vibrations: even when we experience them,
we don't react to them with contentment; rather, we just crave for more. Hence no matter how many blissful
or exciting sensations I may experience, they will never satisfy me...
If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them,
I have no choice but to pursue them constantly? When I finally get them, they quickly disappear, and because
the mere memory of past pleasures will not satisfy me, I have tot start all over again! Even if I continue this
pursuit for decades, it will never bring me any lasting achievement; on the contrary, the more I crave these
pleasant sensations, the more stressed & dissatisfied I will become...
To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down
the pursuit of pleasant sensations.
nòt accelerate
it...
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