Deep satisfaction 2

Busy and active as we are, our life should be nicer than it is. Who is satisfied?
Even the most beautiful, young, sexy, rich, educated people we see in the television fiction are loaded with problems, disappointments, suffering, deceit, insecurity, violence, abuse and whatever. This is fiction, but it attracts viewers because it shows an underlying reality.
How many of the observations we make are true? Of all the impulses reaching our eyes, only a fraction makes it to our awareness. Most of the information is blocked by different filters, of which some were relevant some 10 000 years ago.
And the impulses we see are just fragments of form and color which our brain puts together into arbitrary structures which are colored by our own moods of fear, revenge, hostility, unrealistic dreams and all of it is evaluated by the question: is this good for me?
Nevertheless, we have the capacity to react very strongly, and often we compensate our lack of knowledge by resolute action. So worse gets worse.
Everything is not bad, of course.
Our basic life and life ambition is not soiled by the everyday difficulties, and we can return to this pure satisfaction by breaking the stream of thoughts just like that!

Aftermath 2

A basic rule for having a nice life is to accept time, and let the past be past. But sometimes we can not leave the past and sometimes we do not want to leave the past. It is very good to use experiences in order to avoid faults and mistakes in the future.
Our mind is slow in processing our memories. A natural process is going on all the time. The result of this process will be suffering or joy. We are not aware of the process, but we can influence it if we try to.
The problem - which has caused suffering during the history - is the distinction between improving and destructing. if we can not make that distinction, we are likely to hurt ourselves rather than to improve the world.