Vajra Fist

In regards to the original question, I would say there is incredible beauty with the experience of the present moment. Walking down the street and feeling the wind on your face, smelling flowers or seeing the sunlight dance on water, is incredibly pleasant. So much of our lives are wrapped up in mental projection. You may be walking down the street but never fully experience those things because your mind is in the future or past. Of course, you are also fully aware of the bad stuff too. That throbbing headache behind your eyes, the tension in your shoulders, the dull ache in your knee. But with the experience of the present, you become aware of the reactions to your experience. Pleasant experience becomes 'liking', unpleasant becomes 'disliking'. By being aware of that, it interrupts the next step - attachment and craving. You develop equanimity, sometimes stuff is pleasant, sometimes unpleasant. But never permanent. That's the path out of suffering.