Tricycle Daily Dharma August 11, 2013
Not Clinging to Pleasant States
We
like pleasant meditative states. There's no problem with the
pleasantness of them; it's part of our life experience. The problem is
that we often devote our life energy to the getting, sustaining,
accumulation, and repeating of these pleasant experiences. But, as we
all know, these pleasant experiences don't last, so they don't really
have the capacity to bring us happiness, to bring us completion, to
bring us fulfillment. We're always seeking more—that's samsara, the
endless wheel of becoming, fueled by wanting.
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- Joseph Goldstein, “One Dharma”
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