Seeking Delight Inherently Creates Suffering!
At Savatthi the Buddha once said:
Friends, any who seeks delight in form
seek delight in suffering. I tell you, anyone seeking delight in
suffering,
is not freed from suffering. Anyone who seeks delight in feeling,
or seeks
delight in perception, or seeks delight in mental constructions,
or seeks
delight in consciousness, indeed thereby also seeks delight in
suffering...
One who seeks delight in suffering cannot be liberated from
suffering...!
Anyone who does not seek any delight, neither in form, nor in
feeling, nor
in perception, nor in mental constructions, nor in consciousness,
does not
seek delight in any suffering! Anyone who does not seek any
delight in any
form of suffering, is therefore and thereby released from all
suffering...!
"Garden of Earthly Delight" by
Hieronymus Bosch. (1450-1516)
Comments:
Delight is a mixed state of craving camouflaged by the joy of
satisfaction.
However, in the end, all craving will create suffering either
sooner or later.
Seeking delight is therefore - ultimately speaking - creating
suffering...
All beings in the
sense-world (kāma-loka)
are devoured by their own delight...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Devoured_by_Delight.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya 22(29)
[III 31]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Seeking
Delight!
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