Chapter 47 Matter is perishable

Over the past few decades, a large number of outstanding scientists, outstanding engineers, and outstanding businessmen have mastered the laws of the material world, invented tools and methods for efficient work, and created material wealth.The accumulation of material wealth over the past few decades has reached an astonishing level, equal to the sum of the wealth of the past thousand years. But our spiritual progress is very slow.Great scientists emerge in endlessly, but great philosophers are few and far between. Science advances with each passing day, but religion and ideology remain stagnant, full of superstition, ignorance, and even inversion of black and white.Some people also issued appeals, but these appeals were still regarded as false and useless by everyone, so they did not receive much response.From the perspective of personal life trajectory, most people show the process from the pursuit of material to the pursuit of spiritual enjoyment.When you graduate from university, what you need most is a material foundation, so you work hard to earn money to achieve financial independence and improve your living standards.Satisfying the needs of survival is the first urgent matter in life.From the first act of survival, you feel compelled.When a person eats a bowl of rice because he is hungry, this bowl of rice solves the problem, and it can also be considered that this bowl of rice gives people happiness.But the happiness of this bowl of rice is not sufficient, because what a bowl of rice can satisfy is only the pleasure of the stomach.People realize that they need a higher level of happiness, and a higher level of happiness needs to be obtained from the satisfaction of spiritual needs.

Having a certain amount of material wealth, feeling that you can go to the hospital even when you are sick, and that you can maintain a certain level of daily life can give people a sense of security, but the sense of security is only a low level of human spiritual needs.In our daily life, we see that everyone is happy when they are paid, but the happiness at this time is not as much as that of spending money.Shopping, eating and drinking, or being creative and buying yourself a small gift can be fun.It may be a good way to develop happiness from the use of material wealth and find a higher level of spiritual enjoyment.

More people began to read, began to travel, and began to appreciate works of art.No matter what kind of spiritual activity, the first step is to free yourself from entanglement in material work and get relaxation.Because of this relaxation, there is a sense of leisure.Compared with the "business" of daily work, all spiritual pursuits are leisurely.It is precisely because of this leisure, this sense of freedom of leisure, that the activities of spiritual pursuit acquire a kind of happiness from the very beginning. Spiritual enjoyment is absolutely different from material enjoyment, because material enjoyment is limited by the quantity and quality of the material itself, and blindly pursuing material enjoyment will lead to bottomless quagmire, which is very tiring.In the final analysis, matter is perishable, and the happiness it brings to people is short-lived; while spiritual enjoyment is endless, and the pleasure brought by people's appreciation and pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty is endless.The infinity of spiritual enjoyment comes from the infinite potential of the heart, and the inspiration from the heart will bring more light and joy to people.This is the true pleasure of spiritual enjoyment.