/lit/ - Literature

>>19790791
Because if you don't like suffering (and nobody does) and you honestly reflect for long enough, you will see that the temporary delight in temporary phenomena is exactly the flip side of the coin of suffering. It's not easy to see that when you are getting what you want which is why it's important to practice sense restraint, so you can see how you feel when you don't get what you want. From the perspective of obvious suffering of losing what you love, losing your senses, your family, your safety and security, it's easy to see why you shouldn't have delighted in those things. When you're well fed and fat and lazy, when you don't have to work hard to survive, most people just lay down and forget and become indulgent. Like a chicken that is going to be slaughtered, but instead of escaping she goes for the nice chicken feed, because if she escaped she would have to find her own food.

If you're getting complacent you need to remind yourself of the horror of samsara, the horror of suffering, being devoured alive in the animal realm, or being born as a lower human in the third world for example, starving every day. full of parasites and born with one leg