There is no benefit and there is no intrinsic positive nature in a pleasant sensation
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I am a beginner and I stumbled upon the sentence in a video given by a monk.
> There is no benefit and there is no intrinsic positive nature in a
> pleasant sensation
I will give you the context
> We have to remove this idea that there is something beneficial about
> the happiness. This is probably mind blowing for most people if
> they've never studied things like Buddhism. But really what objective
> and what answer can you give if I ask objectively or intrinsically
> "What benefit do you gain from pleasure ? From physical pleasure ?
> What is positive about it ?" And you know you can simply you can give
> a tautology and say "it's good because it's pleasant" or "pleasant
> sensations are good because they're pleasant" which are both
> meaningless of course.
>
> And this isn't simply a tricky sort of argument, it's not an
> intellectual trick of sorts. **It's actually true that there is no
> benefit and there is no intrinsic positive nature in a pleasant
> sensation**. (...) The issue is this clinging, this craving for
> pleasant sensations and the idea that pleasure is somehow positive.
As the monk said, it is a bit mind blowing for me. If I take an example, when I am hungry, I am in pain, which is the nature way to tell me "Time to have a meal" and when I am full, the nature is telling me I have eaten enough and I do not need to eat more.
And when I am listening to pleasant music or when I am with people I like/I love, I feel my mind at ease and I am happy.
So my question is: what does the monk really mean ?
Asked by user20021
Nov 12, 2020, 09:20 PM
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