#84 - Three Minute Thursday: Want Less, Happy More
The Calm & Free Podcast with Pooja Mottl
English - January 20, 2022 17:15 - 4 minutes - 4.47 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Society & Culture Personal Journals ancient wisdom business motivation mindfulness life lessons coaching spirituality greatness philosophy inner peace Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to "3 Minute Thursday" (#ThreeMinuteThursday) where Pooja shares a weekly nugget of wisdom in just a few minutes.
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The idea – that the more you want the more you suffer – is a basic tenant of Buddhism and many other spiritual and religious traditions. The Buddha believed that most suffering is caused by a tendency to crave things. These things might be exact and tangible like wanting to own a sports car or getting to 100K followers on Twitter, or more amorphous, like just not feeling content in the now – wanting to be somewhere else or do something else.
Think about how much wanting happens in your own life. How often do you think about wanting things or experiences or situations?
Legendary coach John Wooden, didn’t need to study eastern philosophy to figure this out. He wrote in his 1997 book, Wooden that: “It is my observation that the primary cause of unhappiness for most people is simply wanting too much: expecting too much materially, chasing the dollar, overemphasizing the material things. When they don’t arrive, unhappiness does.
Eckert Tolle, the author of book The Power of Now, links wanting with stress: he says “Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.”
How often do you want to be there instead of here. How often are you playing for later, hoping that when you get the things you want you will be happy?
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