Pleasure must never be pursued because pleasure cannot be fulfilled.
This is a core tenet of the Andreia Philosophy.
It is impossible to fulfill pleasure because no amount will create fulfillment. An individual cannot satisfy pleasure. It is impossible.
This is why the pursuit of pleasure is Hell.
Pursuing pleasure is like chasing the horizon; you will never get there.
In contrast, the pursuit of body mastery in any discipline will lead to a point where your body can no longer pursue fulfillment, because you have FULFILLED your duty to the discipline by giving your all.
You can workout for three hours. You cannot workout for 13 hours without significant consequences and mental/spiritual taxation. This is not to say you shouldn’t train the body domain for 13 hours.
Being lazy for 13 hours is easy. Pleasure has no difficulty, like being imprisoned if you aren’t aware you are imprisoned.
The moment you realize you are trapped, you create a cavity of despair in your mind and spirit–an open wound that when thought about, feels like poking an open wound on the body–it hurts–the awareness of the wound hurts–so it is ignored and left to fester and spread; this is how you die from addiction. You are made aware of the addiction and hide from the wound instead of sewing it up.
The Hedonistic treadmill
The Hedonistic treadmill is the pursuit of pleasure. Those on the hedonistic treadmill pursue pleasure and never go anywhere because pleasure cannot be fulfilled. It is chasing the horizon; you will not get to the end because the end does not exist, because there is no mountain to climb, only the horizon to chase. And when you look back on a life of pursuing pleasure, you will see nothing, because you did not climb the mountain.
The Hedonistic treadmill can be one thing, many things, or a lifestyle of pursuing pleasure, the most unfulfilling kind of life one can live.
When you see an obese person, you’re seeing a sick person who cannot get off the hedonistic treadmill; they fill their bodies until they die of heart disease because they are unwilling to forsake pleasure for fulfillment.
You can change your fate at anytime by changing the paths you walk on.
You cannot find fulfillment in eating. You can find fulfillment in cooking because cooking can be mastered, as it is production, unlike eating, which is consumption, which cannot be mastered.
The same can be said with those who:
- Drink themselves to death
- Drug themselves to death
- Numb themselves with adult content
- Numb themselves with promiscuity
- Numb themselves with Celebrity/athlete/team worship
The pursuit of consumption-based activities cannot be mastered so their pursuit is Hell. There is no responsibility to consumption like how there is to the path.
The pursuit of pleasure is a false responsibility.
Young men must be cautious of pursuing women because you cannot master women, unlike how you can pursue mastery in a relationship with one woman. A relationship can grow, but an affair cannot.
When you walk the hedonistic treadmill, you age, but you don’t get anywhere. Time is moving, but you are not, and the pursuit of pleasure makes life a blur because you do not create annotations of victory or deafeat that can be reflected upon to help the present and plan the future.
Mastery creates mountains. Pleasure is a flat tundra with no life.
When you are on the hedonistic treadmill, your life becomes dry sand that slips through your fingers while the person in the mirror grows older and fades from existence as the individual loses more of themself as they give more of themself to their hedonistic pursuit which has no end nor mastery nor singular aspect of fulfillment.
You exist on the hedonistic treadmill, but you have not lived, because you have not gone anywhere at all.
Death is the pursuit of pleasure | Life is the pursuit of mastery.
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