There is little left of the minds of these people. Whatever they are able to feel, they conclude that "the mind is in the body," that is, the mind is at the whim of the body.

Some people have to vacillate between crying and laughing several times in the course of each day - their minds constantly expanding and contracting.

The gods know full well that those who only seek physical happiness and make merry are deluding themselves, just fantasizing - even though these people have deceived themselves into thinking that this happiness is fashionable and fulfilling.

Those who let the mind become deluded with material things eventually give in to their lower nature and work against the world.

Those caught up in the delusions of physical happiness often complain about their exceptionally bad kamma and bad fortune.

Those who only seek to satisfy their desires do not have a satisfied mind even after desires are met. They still need new and strange things to keep them tantalized.

Those who enjoy physical happiness are willing to yield to craving without a second thought. They invite friends and relatives to seek only this type of pleasure, because they don't know any better.

The first group increases the things that respond to the needs of hunger and takes this to be happiness; the second group decreases the things that respond to the needs of hunger and takes this to be happiness. The first group feels that the more they yield to craving the better; the second group feels that the more they overcome craving the better.

Those who enjoy physical happiness stuff themselves until sated. Those who enjoy spiritual happiness overcome their hunger by controlling the senses until they are extinguished and calmed.

Those who love physical and worldly happiness say that "the mind resides in the body." But those who love the spiritual happiness of the Dhamma say that "the body resides in the mind." The first group only knows one hemisphere of this world, and the second group knows the whole sphere.

Physical or worldly happiness has to be continually "drunk" or "eaten" to sustain it. But really these actions should be done only to stop or allay hunger whenever we fell its pangs. As for spiritual or Dhammic happiness, no drinking or eating is required to bring it about.

Physical happiness is not that hard to come by, but spiritual happiness is difficult to attain. Physical happiness is easy to see and know, but spiritual happiness is more elusive. Still, there are few people who accept these truths, because they believe that when the physical body is happy, the mind automatically becomes happy, too - and they are convinced that there is no other happiness to be found elsewhere.

The goal of this life is to reach the loftiest levels of what it means to be civilized, both in worldly terms and in Dhammic terms. Life therefore requires both worldly food and Dhammic food; If you partake of only one of these, then life is merely half full.

Being full in terms of physical sensations – Sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings – is to be full of worldly food; but being filled with the highest joy – which comes from a peaceful mind free from the disturbance of sense-objects – is to be full of the food of the Dhamma.