2007-12-20 07:09:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What comes before the feeling of disappointment, is our thinking. So the thinking might be seen as the cause. Yet, that's not really the cause, it goes deeper than that.
So one might then start to question and start to observe what one was thinking and why one is thinking and who is thinking.
Getting to the bottom of that, looking inside more close, then is the only way to understand truly why one feels disappointed.
People can regurgitate the information that all life is suffering, or we are misery or that our unmet expectations are the reason for disappointment, but having this as knowledge doesn't help one in living one's daily life and not having the repeating experience of disappointment.
The way to find out and live a life with less disappointment, is to dive deeply into the question: 'Who am I', and learning the skill of meditation is the tool needed to be able to ask this question. Lastly, this is a process, and the answer to this question doesn't come in one fell swoop, it can take many years to unravel the layers of one's personality that took many years to build up.
Betsy
2007-12-21 04:15:05 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I must admit that I never looked at this word so closely as to realise that it is in fact a composite of the prefix ‘dis’ and the world ‘appointment’, which in my understanding means that we somehow get appointed first and then if unfortunate get disappointed. If this is true then I think we appoint our selves to be a worthy candidate of some achievement may that be in form of some material gain, physical pleasure, joy or happiness of a desire or a wish, or spiritual fulfilment, that when fail to materialised we hear from inside of us some condemnation and temporarily feel worthless in ourselves.
2007-12-21 03:26:38 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From living in the past or living for the future. There is no disappointment at this instant.
2007-12-20 07:18:35 · answer #3 · answered by HyperDog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For having an expectation as to what you want to happen.
2007-12-20 14:44:12 · answer #4 · answered by Drillprp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because we expect people and events to live up to our standards or expectations.
See Seneca for a good view on this.
2007-12-20 14:28:33 · answer #5 · answered by soppy.bollocks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
High expectations?
2007-12-20 07:16:40 · answer #6 · answered by Steve H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whats this we stuff joseph?
2007-12-20 14:20:47 · answer #7 · answered by vitraux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋