I heard someone in a tik tok say the search for pleasure is an addiction and that everything we do is in search for pleasure and he quoted the Buddha's saying searching for pleasure brings suffering. So instead find your own joy and find peace in that.
BUT I realized that once that has been obtained, if it is possible as a human, then it only creates the same thing…seeking our own joy so we find peace. There is no difference in that statement. Finding peace in pain? Sitting in pain. What happens when you sit in pain? You become aware of the pain. What happens when you are very happy? You become aware of what makes you happy even if it is from an altering thing such as drugs or a relationship. But then those same things all bring a level of pain and you are aware of that too.
LITERALLY the meaning of existence is nothing but being aware. Being aware of everything. Bringing light to that which once eluded you. Why did something happen? You find out by bringing awareness to the things around it. Why do we exist? In order to know why we exist we are forced to become aware. Why did that car crash gointo the other car? This and that were happening and each person needed to experience it for their own awareness of something and we witnessed it to bring our awareness to it for our own reason. To be detached doesn’t mean to not engage or be involved, it means that when we detach we are able to see outside of the situation and bring awareness to what is really happening. Again you can take anything and fit in it that the answer is merely awareness. As soon as we are sick we try to find out why….we do things we never did before, some of those things work some of them do not work…we have brought awareness to behaviors and habits we never knew existed but the illness forced us to look and become aware of things.
When we escape we become aware of other things and when those things bring suffering and pain we become aware that they brought us suffering and pain and we move onto something else. And then we get to a state of being which is why we are experiencing all these things….just you asking is the point…to become aware…to not sit back and just exist. To ask the whys to search and experience. There is no right and wrong because both bring awareness in our own unique situations. When we over think as many of us do we are in a sense escaping as well. We are overloading our brains with worries and things we have no control over but if we quiet our brains and detach we bring awareness to all the things we thought were going on and see what it really was.
There is no other point to life except awareness. Become aware of who you have always been…you came to experience this life to wake up from the illusion of what is projecting outside of you and be aware of who and what you really are.
