闲人

What we often fail to realize is that anything we pursue is essentially, at its core, an attempt to solve a problem of the mind.

One essentially does not contact anything outside of the mind.
Although we might experience 'seeing' for example, as being inside our own heads and looking out of our eyes as if they were windows, we don't really 'see' anything except for the image created by our brain from information relayed by the eyes. And so it goes for all our other senses.

Pleasure and pain are similar. They are but information contacting our awareness. We set various kinds of goals but in the end all of them are either to obtain sensations that we like or avoid those we don't, from something simple like gratification of physical senses, to spiritual needs, satisfaction, pride, love. Avoiding the sense of emptiness that sometimes arises. All that we do is in the service of manipulating our system such that the awareness contacts pleasure and does not contact pain.

So instead of the food, music, and other pleasurable things, what we really enjoy is the pleasure that these things influence our system into feeling. So we pursue these things that create pleasurable sensations, and we pursue goals that enable us to obtain things that create pleasurable sensations.

But what we fail to realize is that essentially, at its core, all this is an attempt to solve a (perhaps imaginary) problem of the mind not feeling (or potentially not feeling)what we want it to feel.