Current Events > A man said to the Buddha, "I want happiness."

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The Buddha said, "Forget I. That's ego. Ignore want. That's desire. What you have left is happiness."
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S[he] be[lie]ve[d]

if you take out the "hap" and "s" you get pines
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Fishy posted...

if you take out the "hap" and "s" you get pines

And if you shift that around you get penis.

Happiness is penis.
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The flaw with Buddha's philosophy is basically reducing expectations to as low as it can that he expects we live like sub humand just live to nourish ourself.

I call bullshit on that. Desires lead to creation, creation led to advancement. Even conflict will eventually be resolved and that will lead to some kind of advancement.

How i view that philosophy is basically living like docile, docile animals, not even self aware anymore. Empty. Unchanging. Fuck that, i would rather die than living like that.

Settin your desire as far as your confidence, work towards it with all of your might, and reach the sky. That's happiness. Thats LIVING.
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apolloooo posted...

The flaw with Buddha's philosophy is basically reducing expectations to as low as it can that he expects we live like sub humand just live to nourish ourself.

I call bullshit on that. Desires lead to creation, creation led to advancement. Even conflict will eventually be resolved and that will lead to some kind of advancement.

How i view that philosophy is basically living like docile, docile animals, not even self aware anymore. Empty. Unchanging. Fuck that, i would rather die than living like that.

Settin your desire as far as your confidence, work towards it with all of your might, and reach the sky. That's happiness. Thats LIVING.

But that leads to unhappiness.
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countzander posted...

apolloooo posted...

The flaw with Buddha's philosophy is basically reducing expectations to as low as it can that he expects we live like sub humand just live to nourish ourself.

I call bullshit on that. Desires lead to creation, creation led to advancement. Even conflict will eventually be resolved and that will lead to some kind of advancement.

How i view that philosophy is basically living like docile, docile animals, not even self aware anymore. Empty. Unchanging. Fuck that, i would rather die than living like that.

Settin your desire as far as your confidence, work towards it with all of your might, and reach the sky. That's happiness. Thats LIVING.

But that leads to unhappiness.

fuck you you're a filler character
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countzander posted...

The Buddha said, "Forget I. That's ego. Ignore want. That's desire. What you have left is happiness."

So Buddhism is basically about ideally becoming a robot who disengages from the world and never truly lives, all so he can only have room for happiness? The fuck is the point of happiness when you have no life experiences to compare it to? You have nothing at all if you only have one emotion because that emotion becomes baseline.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

countzander posted...

The Buddha said, "Forget I. That's ego. Ignore want. That's desire. What you have left is happiness."

So Buddhism is basically about ideally becoming a robot who disengages from the world and never truly lives, all so he can only have room for happiness? The fuck is the point of happiness when you have no life experiences to compare it to? You have nothing at all if you only have one emotion because that emotion becomes baseline.

Because these "experiences" you romanticize are never going to satisfy you, so you'll just increase desire to the point you can't fulfill it and it will conflict with the lives and desires of others.
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Desire lead to capitalism which lead to gamefaqs.
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ITT: shut in white boys criticize a religion thats been around for 2500 years.
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MixedRaceBaby posted...

ITT: shut in white boys criticize a religion thats been around for 2500 years.

ITP: Buddhism is a religion
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MixedRaceBaby posted...

ITT: shut in white boys criticize a religion thats been around for 2500 years.

You're right, no one should judge anything if it's old.
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apolloooo posted...

Desires lead to creation, creation led to advancement. Even conflict will eventually be resolved and that will lead to some kind of advancement.

What do you mean by that? I hope youre not implying that we will not have conflict at all. There is no evidence for that. And if you still have desire, someone will exist who wants what you or I have, leading to potential conflict.
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I think Buddhism (especially in the Zen or Tibetan forms) is the 'best' religion bar none. But dammit if I don't find Hinduism constantly more interesting to read about. Yes, please, I want more stories about Shiva and the avatars of Vishnu. The Bhagavad Gita alone is a great starter set on things spiritual in general. And even western religions always have some intriguing mystical sides to them...although in Christianity and Islam a lot of mainline folks will basically point to those practitioners as borderline heretical at best.

Also Hinduism has these two recent figureheads who provide for a lot of fascinating reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda
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