Pursuit of Happiness

Human desires, a default drive to seek mental and physical pleasure, are limitless, and are embedded in a rather ironic form.  The essence of human desire is to have more, but your desire for more is worse when you have more.

The game of fulfilling one's desire is a game of endless pursuit.  Human desire always points to things one does not possess, but after the specific object of a desire is acquired, the mind can only hold the sense of fulfillment briefly. Meanwhile,  fulfillment induces new and stronger desire. If we call the mental state at the fulfillment of a specific desire as Happiness and the mental state with a not- yet-fulfilled desire as Greed, then greediness easily beats happiness. Individual's pursuit of happiness is an endless cycle that, at the best, can only be very briefly fulfilled.

a bit 2 pessimistic perhaps? ;-) know what U r trying 2 say

there is need & there is want. If one canTell the difference

and stay with need as must, then he/she is a winner !!!

觉得贪婪无厌不是人的本性，是后天来的。也不是所有人后天都会变得贪婪无厌。

there r people born stoic & there r people learn to be stoic

Stoic people are never greedy!! :-))

Stoics 好是好，只有圣人能做到。：）

想钱想疯了的，都是有钱人，想权想疯了的，都是有权的人。：）

圣人是已经到达了的人；还有很多在*stoic* 路上的人。我觉得世上还是好人多，不要太悲观哈 ：-）

What a trap!

'What a mind job!' -Cypher in The Matrix

是人都不是好东西。这是我在几坛的文章的链接：

是人都不是好东西

Don't agree! 蒋老师，您是人，我是人，我们都是人。世上没有完美的人，但确实是有好人，我自己就认识几位。

民主制度最根本的假设，就是是人都不是好东西。：）

我对好人的简单定义：做事儿能从别人的角度看，能为别人着想，可以为大局/正义牺牲自己利益的人。

钱有多少，人就有多坏，权有多大，人就有多混蛋。：）

标榜自己是这样的好人的，都是骗子。真正为大局/正义牺牲自己利益的人，都是上当受骗的傻子。：）

无言 。。but I respect your opinion. 君子和而不同！

Siddhārtha Gautama percept this human nature, and become

Shakyamuni Buddha

我不是说普通人，是说有钱有权的人。：）

哦，那我就理解了。因为我认识的“好人”都是普通人 ：-）谢谢蒋老师！！

Buda 的出发点，是众生皆苦。苦的源头，是人的欲念，要不苦，必须无欲无念。不过一个无欲无求的人，和死人也就不差什么了。