Achieving Inner Contentment may mean different things to some people, for example to some it may mean to have everything that you desire or want like expensive cars, bigger house, or more shoes, when really you do not need them. In the essay titled, “Inner Contentment,” by the Dali Lama and Howard C. Cutler, they seem to be having a conversation about what inner contentment really is and how both of them think that they can achieve it but in two different ways (Lama and Cutler). There are two different methods to achieving inner contentment, but one way is more reasonable and better than the other one. One of the methods is to obtain everything you want and or desire, which is the one that the Dali Lama and Howard C. Cutler say is the unreliable one that can get you into trouble, while the second method is not to have what you want but rather to appreciate what we have. In this essay they explain both, why one is unreasonable and how while the other one is reasonable (Lama and Cutler).
The essay starts off with Howard C. Cutler walking down the street to meet with …show more content…
Like the example about a person buying a new car simply because they wanted a new car, that person will never be satisfied and eventually they will reach a limit. Eventually that person will not have any more money to keep buying new cars and will have to start selling some of his things which will make him even more upset and cause him to lose all hope and fall into depression all because his greedy desire made him want to keep buying and buying new cars. That is why being greedy is a bad characteristic for a person to have because they will never be fully satisfied with what they have, they will always want something and sooner or later they will want something that they cannot have. Which is why the Dali Lama thinks the other method is much