Balance your desires to avoid suffering (1 of 2)

Good morning friends. There is a saying that … “Never be satisfied with what you have, always wish for more”. This is true. Don’t just be contented for what you have. You have to aim more and struggle a lot to be able to have your wishes come true. Materialism and consumerism assume that fulfilling desires and the enjoyment of pleasures are all that is required to make us happy and contented.

We should live happily because once the body is dead and is reduced to ashes; it can never come back to life.

One must enjoy life to the core. What is enjoyment? It is to eat delicious food, seeking the company of the beautiful and young, wearing good clothes and accessories, decorating oneself and experiencing instant gratification wherever possible. Indian tradition takes a holistic view of human nature. It argues that material aspects, may be for human existence, do not exhaust the whole of the personality of a human being. It recognizes that besides having physical needs and cravings, we have spiritual aspirations also. Why limit human aspiration to only the physical plane?

The spiritual goal alone differentiate the human being from other forms of life. A man does not aspire for just artha and kama or the economic and the emotional; he also wishes for dharma and moksha , the moral and the spiritual. So it’s not as though we only seek the ephemeral and fleeting, we are inclined also to look for what could be eternal and enduring.

Cheer Up...

Hi everybody! ..... :) See that "Big J" of my t-shirt? You know what it means? Come on you can guess.... I'm sure you have something in you mind. What is it tell me. . . . . Ya, you are right. "J" for joy. Joy for pleasure, for enjoyment, for delightfulness. Let's be happy.......:)

Man’s Best Friend - 1

It’s a dog-gone life, I love it …..and I’m happy for it!

Why do people, children and adults have dogs? The reasons vary really. “He looked so cute in the pet shop window, I couldn’t resist.” Was only given to me. My Family needs protection.
So you see, owning a dog has taken a much broader and oftentimes higher purpose that the hunting, herding and farm tending they originally used to be for.

It’s not easy to live in such a world. We need companions to be able to survive. Sometimes we rely on friends. Sometimes we rely on our family. For one, man has this great and overwhelming need to communicate. He needs to talk about his life, what’s good about it, what’s not so good about it. Naturally, this situation requires that he should have a listener. Someone who will listen intently and make no judgments. Guess what? A dogs all ears. The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. He may not be able to talk back but his mere presence is consoling and comforting when you need him to be. Probably not that lonely, but it still feels different to have someone around whom you’ll take care of as if he were your own child.