The benefits of a buddhist perspective

There is a reason that monks are the happiest people in the world. It is true, yet our culture completely ignores their teachings. Our goal in this forum is happiness right? So why are we not consulting the happiest and most content beings in human existence? If there is one thing I have learned in my journey is that Western culture has shaped and helped to destroy me. It is a society of over indulgence and consumption of material things (could be porn, food, clothing, etc) used to make us feel better. The most critical Buddhist principal is to rid yourself of all attachments, as attachments are the root of all unhappiness. Think about it, we are attached to porn. Our brains have been psychologically trained to seek porn as comfort from the real world. This is a clinging attachment; the way your body has been trained to find peace. What Buddhism teaches us it that we will never find happiness in the real world until we can break this attachment, and find peace in the moment. It's like biting your nails; if your rely on biting your nails to make you feel less anxious, then your body is truly not comfortable just being, because if we do not bite our nails we will feel stress. Except what makes porn so bad is that it dissociates you from reality. This "numbing" world that we go when we watch porn is where your body finds peace. SO you need to tell yourself that you will never ever be happy in the real world unless you let go of this attachment. Porn is the root of your unhappiness and until you give it up you will never be happy in reality. Ever. Really let that sink in, and remember that next time you are going to watch porn... Next I would urge everyone to seek meditation as treatment for their withdrawals. This is how you find inner peace, this is how your body becomes comfortable "being"... Meditation is crucial to your body breaking free from this clinging attachment, and thus our unhappy lives.