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Let’s look at life in a different way. We are granted a body at birth, sometimes parents are part of the package. A mind comes with that body, the organ that will decide if we find wellbeing, suffering or something in between.
The body deteriorates at a much faster pace than the mind in normal times. Think of the needs of your body, then your mind.
The body is never satisfied for long, desires are never fulfilled for long. Constantly fulfilling desire leads to addiction not wellbeing.
The greatest meal on earth keeps hunger pains away for maybe 8 or 10 hours. One meal does not sustain us forever.
I mean look how often we need oxygen, four breathes a minute, every 15 seconds of so.
Then the body starts deteriorating if we reach maturity. We wither and die, no one has escaped.
What does the mind need. Well it uses 25% of the bodies oxygen and is dépendant on the body being healthy.
The mind has the option of grasping our desires, then judging success or failure on how we fulfill them.
The mind can also discount the Ego’s needs, making decisions in an unbiased observer mode.
Wellbeing happens when these two forces are balanced.
We have to fulfill certain desires but we need balance and perspective.
One banana split is wonderful, the second damn good, the third brings stomach pains.
Substitute drugs, alcohol, sex, power, status or approval for the banana split.
More desire does not quench desire, it promulgates more and more.
“Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.”
—Venerable Cheng Yen!!!
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