The nature of the material pleasures is not only temporary, that it has a begginning and an end, but also the more you perform some particular enjoyment, the amount of pleasure you derive from it becomes less.
Lets take for example your favourite food, how many plates of it can you eat? After 3 or 4 plates the pleasure rapidly decreases and turns to a feeling of sickness.
Or if you continue to eat the same food for some time or do the same enjoyment for some time, we get less and less pleasure out of it every time.
If you smell a beautiful rose for a few minutes, you find after a short time you can no longer smell the fragrance. Your sense of smell became accustomed. it is for this reason we are always changing our sense enjoyments all the time. As we can only get a drop of enjoyment from any one activity then it becomes dull and we have to change.
This is pure frustration for the spiritual spark, the living being, as we are all really searching for unending bliss. How to get that bliss which is not decreasing at every moment? But is rather always getting better and better. That is what everyone in the whole world is looking for. Permanant happiness. But we are trying to get it in a world of impermanence. Gouranga
Very interesting
I have read that some senses stop registering repeated stimulus after a very short period of time.
An example is the sense of smell. I read that males in particular stop registering a scent within about 10 seconds if the smell emanates from their own body, and about 30 seconds if it doesn't.
If the scent is produced away from our body we register it, meaning we smell it, for a longer period.
Very interesting
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That Can Be A Huge Problem If You're Not Aware!
I'm thinking about the growing obesity problem I see all the time. We all run around, rush rush rush, and just grab whatever there is to eat -- fast food, something you can pull out of a paper bag, whatever. My current motto, to paraphrase a Dunkin Donuts commercial, is "America runs on Dunkins ... and boy, does it show!!" Speaking from my own experience, I find that if you're rushing, you're not enjoying at all, AND you're leaving yourself open to weight gain. Naturally, if you're not satisfied, you want more! What we need to understand, and this is ALSO within my experience, is that if you sit down and eat, something wholesome and free of all the nasty sugar and chemicals so many of us are addicted to, you get better nourishment, and more satisfaction on less food! I'm wondering if this is an effect of moving from the mode of ignorance to passion, or from passion to goodness. In other words, if we improve in our spiritual sense, maybe our appitite improves along with it?