Isn’t it better to know our needs and be satisfied on getting them instead of trying to be satisfied with what we have?
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So is it better to know what our needs are and then get those objects and that will be satisfied instead of simply looking at what we have and trying to cultivate satisfaction? Yes, I think both are different ways of approaching the same point. So if we understand what our functioning needs are and then we can say, okay, I have this, this is enough.
I don’t need a phone with 100 other features because this is what I need and this is what I have already. So with respect to a phone, it may be a little easier to understand what my functioning needs are. With some other objects, it may not be so easy to know that.
But it’s like, it’s something like appetite. Now how much should I eat? Nobody else can tell you. Hey, I am taking chapatis.
Some people make 3 chapatis, some people make 6 chapatis. Some people make 2 chapatis, whatever it is. So by our own experience, we come to know, I am eating too much now.
Or, I eat too little. Usually, eating too little doesn’t happen very often. More often, we eat too much.
So like that, we also learn through experience. How much is the right appetite for me, I learn through experience. So in some cases, we can start from our needs, this is what I need.
In some cases, understanding our need itself may require some experimentation. This is what actually I need. But I thought this was what I needed, but actually I need something more.
Or I need something less. That you learn from experience. So it’s very good to be able to fit our desires according to our needs.
Rather than letting our desires become our needs. I want this. If I don’t have it, I will not be satisfied.
But rather I look at, what do I need? What are my functional needs? And then we move forward from there. So either by tweaking ourselves or by experimenting with a few things, we learn what our needs are. And then once those needs are served, we can satisfy.
Yes, that’s a very sound strategy for cultivating satisfaction in our lives.