Sensuous pleasures

Sensuous pleasures are neither real nor sustainable

Whatever great man can be in this world, there is always something you want in life. We sometimes meet a person who says his life will lack nothing, but still have a strong desire that the status quo should be quiet; which means it is not really happy.

 

It can also be a person immersed in the sensual pleasures or activities that seem carefree. A drunken person cannot care whether naked or clothed, may even challenge or dispute the king, but only while under intoxication.

Sensual pleasures depend transient sensual objects that can leave us one day; or our senses can become weak; or we can die. And who will enjoy these pleasures if he is aware of death, which is related to him one day claim?

This abundance of things "pleasant" done for the abundant pleasure is an obvious misunderstanding. True happiness is that which is eternal. It can only be found with God, who is himself eternal.

Sensuous pleasure is available to the animal and to humans. What, then, distinguishes man from beast? It is the faculty that enables man to think about the basic principles of life, as it really is, and what the purpose of his life is.

In everyday worldly things we think of gains and losses; but they belong to a world that is itself impermanent; how such thinking can lead us to the truth?

We do not try and learn to be content with the situation in which God has placed us, and aspire "best" circumstances that we imagine we will be happy.