You Got it Backwards
Often we engage in endeavors to achieve something. What is it we want to achieve? People usually want status, money, freedom, sex and better stuff. What lies behind the chase of all these things is pleasure. We’re addicted to it. We’re living in a world of pleasure junkies. The problem is pleasure doesn’t last.
We end up needing more and more of it. In this world we run as far away from discomfort as possible. We turn everything into a vehicle to satisfy this urge. When it doesn’t we leave one thing behind for another. Losing the very essence of the activities we engage in.
We think these things will bring us lasting pleasure and satisfaction, but we’re never there to experience them in the first place. A mind that no longer see’s activity, people, and pursuits as a means to pleasure is a free mind. One that doesn’t grasp at how much they’re improving or what they can gain has a pure experience of the actions it engages in.
It’s only this mind that can taste what you thought you wanted from chasing pleasure.
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