pleasure finishes, you’re likely to crave for it.
The mind again gets super excited, chewing
your grief and sorrows.
Now, there are a few tricks that help us deal
with pleasures and pain. These aren’t my own
smart ideas. I’ve learned about these tricks
from two different teachers of Advaita (non-
duality teaching) and found them extremely
useful.
The first thing we need to do is change our
attitude. Since we’re not in a position to
choose only pleasures in life, it makes perfect
sense to change the way we perceive our
circumstances.
It starts with an intellectual understanding that
nothing is permanent in this world. Both
positive and negative experiences come and
go, and it’s not worth it to overemphasize the
importance of either experience you get.
After you’ve got into the logic of this
statement, the journey starts. You come across
different situations in your life and have this
statement in your memory as a reference
point. You start to notice the impermanent
nature of things.