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Happiness In a-googlin' some Buddhist stuff, I came across this:
I thought this was worth sharing.
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The buddhist view on this is that the mind is like a storm.
But with great practice you can control your thoughts.
The next natural step is that if you can control thoughts, obviously this thoughts give birth to emotions....ergo, the right behavior, right thoughts...etc. can lead to happiness.
I've seen this when I was going to beach with someone I knew, and another woman cut her off in traffic while we were driving to the ocean.
It was such a lovely day...I was in such a great mood. 3121 was playing in the car..
She was livid and pissed off for at least 2 hours after that incident. It was an imaginary anger in my mind, because there simply was nothing to be angry about.
I am a vain and quick-to-anger person. But I do believe that if I can control my thoughts, I can control my emotins. It's really simple....but difficult. | |
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OMG, stop!
I'm trying to get ace to develop a man-crush on me with all this hippie loving bullshit rhetoric, and you are stepping ALL OVER my game! | |
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Dude, we are all trying to get Ace to have a crush on us.
Besides, your game is so big, it could never be crushed! Carry on.....
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except for that bit where females aren't allowed in the temples, and that part where buddha sat under a tree doing nothing but meditate while others brought him food, this is the philosophy for me! | |
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^^^faints^^^ | |
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If you only knew the truth... | |
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Religion is not for me, ergo temples are not for me. As for the part where he did nothing while others brought him food? I knew this Buddha dude knew some shit! | |
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fa fa flo hi!
"not a fan" yeah...ok | |
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Fla-fla-flunky. | |
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Papa-papa-hoooo
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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I find that many of us think of happiness as a destination. Like boarding a plane and arriving at "Happiness". It does not work that way. It is a daily thing that you have to work at. It is not a pair of shoes or a puppy. It is a state of being.
Oh and I just went to the dr today for a health problem caused by anxiety. I need tip to stop being anxious!
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Exactly:
A good psychiatrist can help you with this (depending on the severity, medication might be helpful). | |
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"not a fan" yeah...ok | |
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You are lucky. I worry and get anxious about so many things. Silly little things and big things. I don't get down about myself really. I always worry about others and the what ifs.
Oh well, I am better than I used to be so I am glad about that. I can always improve though.
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This used to drive me crazy until I discovered a trick: Hit Enter a few times, at the bottom of the box, then click the "Blockquote" button (below Bold). Voila: jailbreak!
If only we could talk to Howard. Now, there's a guy who needs to learn how to not sweat the small stuff. | |
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I have authorithy issues.
Who decides for me that I have to come to the conlcusion that Nibbana is my highest purpose? If I don't pursue Nibbana, that shows my knowledge isn't ripe enough?
And why should I strive for the absolute end of sorrow? Because isn't that resulting in total indifference or just a very eloquent form of avoidance and escapism?
I should not want love, friendship or health because my longing can result in dissapointment. So, it's better to dismiss that all, so I have full control of my own emotional state.
And living as hermit without any lover or friends to challenge me. Because I don't want feel bad or horrible now and than?
It's not that I like my lows. It's just that retracting myself from life in order to have a constant flat emotional state is not what I strive for.
Or is that a sign of my underdeveloped knowledge because my soul is far, far away from enlightenmend?
Some enlightened souls are more equal than others, I guess.
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And yes, I wish I wasn't troubling myself so much.
99% of my posts are ironic. Maybe this post sides with the other 1%. | |
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Females are allowed in temples. I am sometimes the only male at the local temple here when I go in to meditate.
Female discrimination is in Buddhist history and indeed monastic life/rules. But, these can change. The West is waking up to a new form of 'atheist buddhism' in which the core principles are applied to people's lives without the myths that surround the religion. The West has more or less stripped away the female/male distinction, which I think is a good thing.
The East has much further to go, but it's a societal problem more than an intrinsically Buddhist problem.
IanRG, if your annoying ass is going to jump in this conversation, my brain is going to explode.
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I wonder if I did the Tina Turner chant will I be happier than I normally am on a good day? | |
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Don't think anyone said that.
"Ripe" enough? Dunno.
No, I don't believe that.
I think you're misreading the quote.
Since this is obviously directed at me, personally, let me say that I don't live as a "hermit". I work five days per week (down from many years of six days per week) and I was just out with some friends, yesterday evening. As for "lovers", I've had some. Don't feel the need for them anymore. But the passage quoted does not say that you have to shun that.
Since this also seems to be directed at myself, I don't feel that I've "retracted myself from life" at all. And "a constant flat emotional state" seems to imply that you feel that my emotional state is a listless one. Far from that, I am a very happy person who takes great joy in simple things.
"Underdeveloped"? I wouldn't say that. I would say that "enlightenment" is a good thing.
Not that I'm aware of. | |
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I think the point of detachment in Buddhism is largely misunderstood, because sorrow and pain are very crude translations of dukka which it much broader.
It would be like saying trust and fondness are the same thing as respect.
Freedom from dukka is something all Buddhist strive for. But an adequat description of Dukka takes weeks to understand and explain. Because laughter, love, sex, pleasure---these things are just as much dukka as pain, suffering, sorry, and greif are. It's just very difficult to explain.
As far as not being allowed to be happy that your in love? Nothing in buddhism says you can't be.
Own the iphone, have the beautiful girlfriend, have the great house and wonderful yaght by all means---just don't pin your happiness on these things. Happiness is a mental discipline.
All things are rafts that help you get to some shore. Once at the shore, it would be silly to lug that raft around with you. | |
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I would like to clarify that I'm still interested in sex. I'm just not interested in sex with strings attached (and there are always strings attached).
Unfortunate, that. | |
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Are you just clarifying this to keep Imago crushing on you? | |
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