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The problem is that we are hard wired to always want more. It requires constant reflection to short circuit this tendency.
by hoodwink 10y ago
The problem is that we are hard wired to always want more. It requires constant reflection to short circuit this tendency.
- MarkPNeyer 10y agoThe reflection itself becomes easier and more automatic with practice.
- joggery 10y agoIsn't there a valid distinction between the joy of making genuine progress in life and mere pleasure such as that derived from drugs or alcohol?
- hoodwink 10y agoThis is a question of virtue versus pleasure which is much explored by the Stoics because a contemporary, competing movement was Epicureanism, which extolled pleasure. OP is referring, however, to the "life hack" promoted by the article's author which suggests keeping our baseline low so that we are constantly surprised to the upside.
- AlexCoventry 10y ago> It requires constant reflection to short circuit this tendency. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/dhammapada.pdf http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/dhamma... Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight — for a heedful person, absorbed in [concentration], attains an abundance of ease. When the wise person drives out heedlessness with heedfulness, having climbed the high tower of discernment, sorrow-free, he observes the sorrowing crowd — as the enlightened man, having scaled a summit, the fools on the ground below.