Comments by "Jackie Wu" (@jwu1950) on "Hedonism: The Pursuit of Happiness" video.
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Pleasure is not happiness. Pleasure is merely just a temporary state of mind.
Therefore, the pursue of pleasure is stupid.
We are in a state of pleasure after our pain ends, when we are done feeling the pain, and there is pain no more. Got a headache, take an Anvil, and you feel good and ready to go again. It's that simple.
Now let's look at pain. As Buddha would agree, life is a series of pain. Being born is painful, growing old is painful, getting sick is painful, dying is painful. That's life. It's inevitable.
Therefore, to avoid pain is impossible, and futile.
The pain we feel is usually not the actual pain but the imaginary pain which may or may not become real, or when it does become real, may or may not be that unpresent before it's gone and pleasure sets in.
To have a happy life requires no effort except understanding. Understand that we must all die. Life is short, and so any pain is short and immaterial in the grand scale of reality, but it is inevitable just like everything else. Any thing that happened happened because it is inevitable, unavoidable, unchangeable, in unalterable. Just accept it and let be.
To live a happy life we would like to pursue all our hearts desires. We have desires. That is inevitable. We have the choice of pursuing our desire or to let go of them. Most if not all failures are due to letting go. So, let be but never let go. Take tiny steps and enjoy every moment of your life. Its that simple.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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