Human mind is some thing beyond explainable.
2007-10-19 20:43:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Because we are completely unaware of what it that we are actually searching for.
2007-10-20 01:22:18 · answer #1 · answered by nene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say, if you have a headache , what do you do? Are you checking all parts of the body to find the root cause? No. You simply relate it to something connected with the head and pop a pill in the mouth. If the ache persists and keeps coming again and again you will seek more investigation and find the correct solution .
So is the case with human wants. We want and want and want and we donot analise why we want what we want. So we keep getting things that we 'think' will satisfy our wants. Only much later and after a lot of pain do we reach out for the reasons for our wants.
Why do we want? Want anything at all? It is because we think that it will give happiness to us if we possess it.In other words what we want is ACTUALLY happiness and we try to get it through these things.
Then why are we going after things again and again? This is because , in a very short time , we realise that the one that we wanted and possessed gave us only momnetary or short time happiness. So we move on to the next hoping that at least THAT will give us more happiness. But it is the same story.
The question is " Is there something that will give lasting happiness?" If so we will not keep chasing these things. Yes. There is such a thing. Investigate it yourself and it will lead you to the answer. Like the investigation for your persistant headache.
2007-10-20 07:38:01 · answer #2 · answered by YD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human nature to achieve is deeply rooted in our desire and capacity to survive. The best ideas come when we are not busy fighting for our lives all the time. When we achieve comfort as the pinnacle of achievement in period of turmoil, our brains go into a forward shift and we become creative.
"What if we build a fence to keep the enemies away, maybe we can have a more lasting peace?"
"The fence doesnt work, can we try a moat instead?"
and so on.
Had our ancestors been satisfied with minor unimpressive gains in the past, we would have been the ones who did not survive. We need to constantly redefine ourselves, not to be complacent.
It is not the human mind at work here, but the spirit.
2007-10-20 04:16:41 · answer #3 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it challenges us, we as humans tend to push boundaries on everything. So naturally we strive for what we don't have or think we can't get. That is how we discovered some of the things we have about this world because we try things in which we believe to be beyond our power.
2007-10-20 06:25:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are never ever definitely glowingly satisfied with whatever we have because of our own innate never definitely explainable and ever insecure drive to perfection, because we strongly feel that we are imperfect, because we can see, and others can see even more than we ever can see, that we are imperfect and insecure and incomplete.
Whatever we have in our own life is not definitely fulfilling, never ever definitely glowingly reliable for us and for others.
If we were utmost perfect and complete we would never ever need anything else than our own ever glowing dazzling perfection.
Whatever we may reach or earn in our life almost always gives a more or less bitter scent of illusion, and it is not the definitive perfection and it is not the definitive security, not the glowing definitive freedom from fear and from need - therefore we are never ever definitely satisfied with what we have, therefore we, oftenmost illusorily, go after things that we do not have.
2007-10-20 04:30:14 · answer #5 · answered by pasquale garonfolo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans have no contentment after all. We tend not to be satisfied of what we have and therefore we seek more than what we have. This always boils down that humans have no satisfaction after all. We crave for things that we ought not have in us. That i think what humans are.
Thanks for asking. Have a great day~
2007-10-20 04:03:30 · answer #6 · answered by Third P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the MIND. Thou difficult to understand it is certainly explainable, with the idea of self, comes the idea of having all the possible. It is the projection of your self, your ego and ultimately your desires. If you can attain the state of 'no-mind' (as ZEN calls it) ... you may end this rat race once for all.
~~~ Love, Peace and Happyness are still free in the world~~~~
2007-10-20 04:35:25 · answer #7 · answered by Neo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans are constantly consumed by greed, longing, or something of the sort. it is in our nature to want, and we stop wanting when we have everything. that moment last for about a few minutes at most. then you realize some one some where has something you never saw b4... personally... i want nothing but love. i am always wishing for my girl because she lives kind of far. and when we're together, im wishing for more time... but greed... i cant see greed going anywhere but regression.
2007-10-20 03:59:16 · answer #8 · answered by Kate 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are not satisfied with what we have right now and we after things we don't have because we humans are so ambitious in life..... hehehehe..........
it is maybe because we still look for things which we think can help us in our life. because we still feel the incompleteness.
and maybe its all because its a human nature to be unsatisfied in life......
2007-10-20 07:08:46 · answer #9 · answered by nonoy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its because we are incomplete and we have been created to seek something which makes us complete..thats never going to happen without god .god is the only person who can make us complete so try jesus...he works
2007-10-20 04:36:13 · answer #10 · answered by bekaaam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋