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"Happiness" means so many things. Almost all of our pursuits are just achieve this nebulous goal: To be happy. Through meditation I came to the conclusion that
by linuxhansl 14y ago
"Happiness" means so many things.
Almost all of our pursuits are just achieve this nebulous goal: To be happy.
Through meditation I came to the conclusion that what we typically call happiness is just a temporary satisfaction of desires that won't last.
True happiness seems to be accepting what is, without judgment by realizing "emptiness" (a term describing that nothing exists on its own or has a distinct identity, including the self).
Once you see this you'll wonder how you could have missed this all this time, since it is so obviously true.
The problem is remembering this when things go wrong; that is distinguishes people truly at peace from the rest of us.
- alberich 14y agoIf nothing exists, why seek anything? I don't disagree with your assertion, I just think it could be further developted to explain some reasons why it would be interesting to struggle to live and not throw the baby out with the bathtub. I believe Nietzsche was going to tackle this question, but died before he could.
- linuxhansl 14y agoYep, that's the interesting question. Along with: Why is there something rather than nothing? Note that I did not say "nothing exists" I said "nothing exists on its own". Could have said "Don't take the self so seriously, in only exists in relation to other things". Indeed, why seek anything? That only makes sense if there's something missing. Meditation would have it that there is nothing missing and that we just don't know that.