As Mattieu Ricard says, there is a confusion between genuine happiness and seeking enjoyable emotions (26). In both the text and the video, the authors mention our human instinct to blindly react to the sensations and experiences that occur around us. We tend to forget to take in these sensations and understand them, and instead we focus on how these make us feel. As Eilona Ariel mentions, through Vipassana, we can learn that nothing is permanent which allows us to analyze our behaviors in greater depth. By changing our state of mind, it grants us peacefulness, but it also makes us…