1. When people don’t have gratitude..
Happiness and pleasure felt without a grateful heart is temporary happiness based on stimulation and pleasure that satisfies the five senses of man. Happiness to have, through what one sees, hears, smells, tastes, and feels with one’s body is the pursuit of happiness based on stimulation and possession. It soon results in boredom, and then one wanders around seeking some new sensory pleasure; traveling, shopping, eating delicious foods, and finding happiness outside. With our infinite human greed, and feeling the limitations of time and money, dissatisfaction is inevitable. It is not easy to control human desires and emotions.
2. Why are people not grateful?
The world is giving us everything we need. However, people are so caught up in a sense of lacking. So they cannot see what they already have. There is only a mind of hunger desiring to have more. Deep inside, there is the mind that there is not enough all the time because they don’t have Truth within – only the insufficient reality that is incomplete can be seen and experienced. That is ‘Cause and Effect.’
People live their lives according to what they have in their minds. A heart of gratitude creates all kinds of positive minds. Therefore it will bring positive consequences.
3. Let us find gratitude within
Meditation can make you find gratitude within: Meditation is throwing away the false mind. Through self-reflection, you can understand that you have been bound to the false conceptions and habits that have been formed in your life which bring endless feelings of lacking and unhappiness. And you can see yourself who is trying to find fake happiness. So you will get to know why you are not able to have true happiness and gratitude even if you had many interesting experiences in your life.
4. Only Truth remains within your mind, once you discard the false mind which is the cause of unhappiness.
Then you can realize everything exists within you. You will find true happiness and joyful life. All the conditions for happiness are already given to us by the Universe. Once you know the ways of the world after getting enlightenment, there will be neither blockages nor hindrances in your life. You can affirm the reality and plan realistically. So your life will be successful. A positive and grateful heart makes blessings in life. Thus, you can truly live well in reality.
