WE CANNOT HAVE PLEASURE AND BLISS AT THE SAME TIME
To
be a Zorba and a Buddha at the same time it is just impossible. It is just an
imagination of a lusty mind.
Who
says that is possible to have pleasures without to be attached and addictive to
them and without to suffer just don't believe him. Why?
Because
there is no pleasure without lust, desire and passion (it is impossible) and
suffering is due to desire and passion. Suffering is inevitable because all
kinds of emotional suffering are modifications of desire itself. Selfishness,,
anger, jealously, depression, fear, resentment, uneasiness, discontentment,
incompleteness, hatred, disappointment, hopelessness, frustration, impatience,
loneliness, are all effects of desire and passion.
If
someone doesn't accept this, it is because he ignores how the mind
functions, he doesn't really know himself deeply enough.
Moreover
it is impossible to experience at the same time the bliss of our true nature
(Atman, Consciousness) and the pleasure which is the result of the contact of
mind with the sensual objects, plus imagination and projection.
Mind
can focus and experience one thing at the moment. So, we can focus the mind
within and experience the bliss and peace divine or focus it outside to
experience illusory, temporary, fleeting pleasures.
Moreover
a mind full of passion and lust it is dense, obscured, distracted, cloud,
dull and cannot reflect clearly and without distraction the peace and Bliss of
Consciousness. Only a pure sattvic mind can reflect clearly and without
distortions the bliss and the peace of Atman.
Then
we must make a choice. What is we want more? Eternal freedom, peace and bliss
or fleeting illusory pleasures accompanied inevitably with suffering.
Only
if one suffers enough due to an extroverted pleasure-based life it is possible
to begin question his way of living and seek something that can be harmonious,
sustainable and free from imagination and suffering.