Friends:

False perception of pleasure fools one to think: Worldly Happiness is possible:

Buddha once said: Dukkhānupassanam bhāvento sukhasaññam pajahati...
When developing the contemplation of Suffering (dukkha),
one gradually overcomes the false perception of pleasure...

 

The Blessed Buddha once convinced a disputant by this cut-2-the-bone explanation:

Friend Aggivessana, what do you think,
is any material form, is any feeling, is any perception,
is any mental construction, and is any consciousness,

always permanent or always impermanent?

Venerable Gotama, they are all ever impermanent...

If these things are impermanent, are they then pleasurable or painful?

Venerable Gotama, then they are all painful...

Aggivessana, what do you think,

When one searches for what is suffering, clings to what is suffering,
resorts to what is suffering, holds on to what is suffering and regards
what is suffering as: "This is mine, this I am, this is my self..."
can one then ever understand suffering or be freed from all suffering?
How could one ever Master Gotama, no never Master Gotama...

                                                                                                Source: MN I [232]

More on this universal, inevitable & absolute Misery (Dukkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_3_Universal_Characteristics.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Catastrophic.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stopping_Physical_Pain.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Origin_of_Suffering.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Physical_Pain.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Pain_Itself.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_3_Ultimate_Facts.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Source_of_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Samsaric_Dread.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Endless_Round.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/300_Spears.htm
 

No Worldly Thing can ever bring Lasting Happiness ...

Updated: 11 June 2008  http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Suffering.htm