Understanding the Pursuit of Happiness and the Cycle of Existence
Those who search for happiness via sense pleasure only
experience happiness at the moment before suffering mani-
fest itself. As soon as suffering becomes manifest, such peo-
ple are often so shocked
…iness and freedom from suffering. By cultivating wisdom and aiming for arahantship, they strive for liberation from the cycle of birth, old age, sickness, and death.