Alan Watts ~ Why We Most Love Each Other
ESCAPING PAIN BY SEEKING PLEASURE
In samsara we continually try
to get away from pain by seeking pleasure, and in doing so, we just keep
going around and around. I’m so hot I open all the windows, and then
I’m so cold I put on a sweater. Then it itches, so I put cream on my
arms, and then that’s sticky, so I go take a bath, and on and on. I’m
lonely, so I get married, and then I’m always fighting with my husband
or my wife, so I start another love affair, and then my wife or husband
threatens to leave me and I’m caught in the confusion of what to do
next.
We are always trying to get out of the boiling pot into
some kind of coolness, always trying to escape and therefore never
really fully settling down and appreciating. That’s called samsara. In
other words, somehow we have this preference for occurrence, so we’re
always working in that framework of trying to get comfortable through
political beliefs and philosophies and religions and everything, trying
to gain pleasure in all that occurs.
The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chödrön, page 75
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