That is a key lesson of many religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism etc that the state of contentment comes from within. They have been telling everyone this for decades with mixed results.
Suffering is what happens when expectations do not match with reality. You can still have pain but suffering is that gap.
You hear folks that say "it is the journey that matters" but that implys a destination. I think it is all just one big ’happening'.
If life is a race it is a 100n stroll. And yet many people have convinced themselves that it is a marathon and that everyone else needs to be doing that race otherwise they would be the fool. The joke being that there is no other finish line and that many will go to the grave thinking they havent run the race enough.
Suffering is what happens when expectations do not match with reality. You can still have pain but suffering is that gap.
You hear folks that say "it is the journey that matters" but that implys a destination. I think it is all just one big ’happening'.
If life is a race it is a 100n stroll. And yet many people have convinced themselves that it is a marathon and that everyone else needs to be doing that race otherwise they would be the fool. The joke being that there is no other finish line and that many will go to the grave thinking they havent run the race enough.