Oh, but that's the whole paradox of this life - 'satisfaction' is a moving target, not a fixed point. In fact, this is what life is about - getting from the cu

Oh, but that's the whole paradox of this life - 'satisfaction' is a moving target, not a fixed point. In fact, this is what life is about - getting from the current 'not so satisfied' point to the next 'a bit more satisfied'. First we have our bodies - which need food and shelter and can get sick and hurt. So one of our tasks in life is to constantly keep our bodies satisfied - hunger, thirst, piss, shit, cold, hot, pain, horny. This takes a lot of our energy/time. Then we have the effects of mortality - parents, children, friends, pets - every living being dies eventually and this generates suffering inside us (unless we are the one dying, which generates suffering inside everyone we love). Then we have the whole of our society - competition, job, class struggle, bugs in our software... too many to enumerate. Total satisfaction ('bliss') is only possible for short periods of time (until hunger strikes or the bladder's full) and it's a function of a realisation, of letting go, of simplifying the requirements for 'satisfied'. This is what the monks do - they let go of everything 'worldly' in exchange for a much simpler achievement of 'satisfied'. But then, of course, we don't want to live like monks, so we want more comfort and hence a more complex problem to solve.