We want to enjoy the pleasures of daily life. Though we want to be pleased, we cannot be pleased by ourselves. It is a matter of course that one cannot be pleased by oneself. One can be pleased through man, or material, or literature, etc. Even in the middle of a happy life, gladness itself cannot be continued unless the object can be developed more and more as time goes on. In other words, to be pleased one absolutely needs objective stimulation.

When you set up a purpose, there must be time and process for the purpose to be realized. The question is how to tide over the process. It is very important to receive the objective stimulation centering on the purpose in your life circumstance.

You can sustain the purpose in your determination for the time being, but without the continual objective stimulation for the purpose you might be in the situation of falling down, retreating, or despair, which can be the primary factor for failure. Therefore, you should have good stimulation, or ideal stimulation in your daily life and practical life. It is absolutely necessary to receive good stimulation in the circumstances where you might meet with various obstacles. When you have set a purpose to accomplish through your study, the matter of your success and failure will depend on how you feel stimulation centering on the motivation of the purpose. No matter how strong your determination to accomplish a certain purpose, without such a stimulating factor in your desire, you may give it up halfway or leave it half done. (66-37)