Why is that Man is never satisified?

I have heard about art of living. infact i know many people who have attended the course. Most of them seems to have transformed for two days. but the third day, everything is back to how it was.

I was only talking about the approach and not about any course. The approach that making the best of what one has is bound to give man the satisfaction rather than relentlessly going after more and more possessions.

You are right. but people who are really happy are really few. Most run behind money and power. Satisfaction in life is what they never have.

Obviously, We don't feel happy of what we have.

I agree with your point. But lets consider people with families. Even they want their children to have good future, good jobs and good life. Only then, they would feel they are satisfied.

Satisfaction is not having all you want. Satisfaction is simply being contented with what you have and what you don't have but of course, it does not limit its definition by not asking for more. You'll ask for more. You'll wish to succeed with this and that you want this you want those but it doesn't mean that you are not satisfied. You are satisfied with what you have it's just that we are living in this material world. Simply, you may ask for more but then, contented and satisfied with what you already have. Based on stages given by Sigmund Freud i guess, that satisfaction you are pointing out is achieved on late adulthood range 70 above i guess. It's having an ego for what you have done for all those years. It's the sense of wholeness.

Some people unfortunately are very greedy. its hard to convince the. what they forget is money and power cant bring in peace of mind.

I think contentment is something people achieve at a later stage in their life. At our young age, we are competitive and we fight to stay out in society. But as time passes by, we understand the futility of our rat race.

Every person has one or the other shortcoming. if we realise it and learn to live with that,its fine. but mostly, it never happens. Unknowingly we also join the bandwagon of competition. we bring in a lot of pressure on ourselves.

The drive for innovation is our want. If we ever stop dreaming or desire abt something, then there will be no urge to work. people will just turn into saints and development would stall.

It is not a naive judgement. Even though human desires causes problems. desire is the reason for progress of our species. its out of our desires that we have had so many inventions.

But in fact majority of people are that way. Even that includes me. Sometimes I realise that whole essence of wanting more is trivial. But the problem is then you lose the motivation to continue.