You wanted pleasure. Incredible, sublime, life-changing pleasure.
And all you had to do was take the path laid before you. All you had to do was follow the proper processes. All you had to do is stay in the centre of the circle and trust the future.
But you tried to run ahead and grab pleasure before it was due. Instead of taking the main path like you were supposed to, you tried to take a shortcut through the side path; you tried to find a shortcut to pleasure. You tried to pluck the fruit before it was ripe; and in doing so, found it sour and unsatisfying.
What am I talking about? Let me put it in simpler terms for you:
- You watched porn instead of having sex with a real partner.
- You played video games instead of embarking on your life’s adventure.
- You watched Romcoms instead of having a true love story of your own.
- You ate junk food and grew fat and sluggish instead of living in a healthy body like you were supposed to.
You keep breaking the law of pleasure. And the universe continues to punish you for it.
What is the law of pleasure? Listen carefully and I’ll tell you the secret.
This secret you know, yet pretend not to know. A secret you once you discovered but have since forgotten. Let me remind you.
Instant, strong, powerful pleasure is available to you at any time. Right now, you can take it. Without effort. Without work. As modern humans, we have created all kinds of artificial forms of pleasure that can be grabbed whenever you like.
Yet on the back end of instant pleasure is always a proportional level of suffering.
Every single time. With no exceptions.
The strength of the instant pleasure you greedily grab is directly proportional to the suffering you experience on the back end.
When you enjoy the momentary pleasure of eating junk food; the instant “mouth pleasure” is available for you at any moment of the day. Yet on the back end of eating junk food comes a feeling of lethargy and sluggishness.
And what’s on the back end for those who grab this form of instant pleasure routinely throughout their lives? The frustration of a life lived in an unattractive body and the regret of the health issues that may come their way.
When you grab pleasure before it has been earned, the universe will punish you. This is the law of pleasure.
You grab for the instant pleasure of watching porn. Yet on the back end you lose the will and motivation to put in the work needed to have sex with a real partner. For men, on the back end of a lifetime of frequent porn consumption is an unsatisfying sex life.
When you grab instant pleasure in the form of porn, as the law of pleasure always dictates, the suffering on the back end is greater than the pleasure experienced on the front end.
When you grab pleasure before it has been earned, the universe will punish you. This is the law of pleasure.
When you drink alcohol, you feel care-free and confident. Yet on the back end you must suffer through the hangover.
When you grab pleasure by gossiping about others, you can feel yourself higher and better than others. Yet on the back end it demeans your character. You become someone who’s mind is filled with thoughts of the lives of others, someone prone to envy, and someone who can’t help but compare themselves to others at every turn.
When you inject yourself with heroine, you may experience such powerful pleasure that you feel as though you’ve been taken to heaven itself. Yet on the back end is a proportional level of suffering that you make you feel as though you’ve dropped right down into hell.
As the law of pleasure dictates, when pleasure is grabbed before it has been earned, the level of pleasure on the front end is always followed by a proportionate level of suffering on the back end.
The law of pleasure cannot be cheated. It cannot be hacked. It cannot be broken. It cannot be bypassed
You think you can hack it with all of your modern technology. That you can grab instant pleasure whenever you want and suffer no repercussions on the back end. You think that as a modern human you’re somehow you’re above the law — you’re not.
And no piece of technology could ever be invented that can bypass it or hack it. After all, no matter which artificial method is used to induce pleasurable chemicals (dopamine) inside the brain, the brain must always correct itself afterwards, meaning the brain must fill with unpleasurable chemicals (cortisol).
It is an absolute law of nature that cannot be bent or broken. And everybody who tries to bend it eventually discovers that they cannot.
If you wanted pleasure, you could have followed the proper processes.
If you wanted sex, you could have gone through each step of the natural courtship process between men and women.
If you wanted romance, you could have taken the leap of faith to ask out your crush.
If you wanted to enjoy good food, you could have waited until you were hungry then bitten into the natural food the world provides and experienced the full range of flavours it has to offers; your tongue’s taste buds not numbed by and the artificial sweetness of junk food.
You could have been patient. You could have followed the proper processes. You could have stayed in the centre of the circle and held faith that life would deliver pleasure.
Instead, you made a deal with the devil. You ask of him: Give me pleasure now without the effort. Oh, he gives it to you, yet on the back end, there is always pain.
Get instant pleasure now, without earning it, without going through the proper processes, without following the natural laws of nature, and there will always be suffering on the back end.
And when enough people grab for instant pleasure, when enough people make deals with the devil instead of following the proper processes, the world begins to rot.
When leaders fall for corruption, when they accept money from businesses instead of taking care of the people, when they use that money to pay for expensive prostitutes or escorts, or for drugs, or for vacations in expensive places, their country suffers.
When enough people grab for pleasure, instead of following the proper processes, there are no serious, disciplined people left to run the nation in a responsible manner.
When enough people make deals with the devil, it leads all of us into hell.
Yet the law of pleasure allows every single one of us, everybody born onto this earth, to experience pleasure beyond anything instant, artificial pleasure could ever give us.
The law of pleasure is generous — but you must follow its rules.
If you follow the proper processes, if you take the main path laid before you, if you stay in the centre of the circle and trust the flow of life, if you earn your pleasure the proper way, if you do what you already know you’re supposed to do, pleasure will be given without suffering attached to the back end.
When you do not watch porn, and instead allow your sexual energy to build inside your body, then use that energy to meet a partner in the real world, face to face, with eye-contact and connection, after following the proper process (the natural courtship ritual between men and women), you’ll experience the pleasure of sex without any suffering on the back end as you do with porn.
When you do not play video games excessively, and instead allow your desire for excitement and adventure take you out into the real world, you’ll receive pleasure without suffering attached to the back end.
When you do not eat junk food, but choose the correct food, you can enjoy the pleasure of eating nourishing, flavourful food without the frustration and despair of living your life in an unhealthy, unattractive body.
Incredible pleasure awaits you, as long as you follow the law of pleasure.
Pleasure is waiting for you, but you must to stop trying to reach out and grab it before it’s due.
Stop picking the fruit before it’s ripe. Have patience, wait for it to ripen, and it will taste so much sweeter.
Have faith that, if you do the right things, the future will bring you pleasure after it has been earned by going through the proper processes.
You think you can hack, bypass, bend or break the law of pleasure? I don’t think it can be done. It is a law of the universe. All living creatures must earn their pleasure. And if the pleasure is not earned as it should be, it will be followed by a proportional level of suffering.
Live the rest of your life following the law, and you will be given more pleasure than you ever could by trying to break it.
This is the law of pleasure.
