☁ yuj ☀
Greed and Happiness
Thu, May 15, 2008 - 10:20 PM
There are really three kinds of greed, the first is "chasing happiness" which is the delusion of believing happiness is outside ourselves as an externally existing concrete phenomenon, and never being happy with what we already have. Then the next version is the squeezing happiness. That is wanting so desperately to clutch what you have and make sure no one else has it, being totally obsessed with not losing it. Then the third version is wanting something so bad, you'll take it from someone else or prevent someone from taking it from you, or enjoying it with you, by any means available. Greed kills happiness, literally.:-))) -
Well, there is the timeless, good, and gentle sweet squeeze, well suited to generate a little loving happiness! Go for it! Sharing is caring -
Om Shanti Namaste!
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 6:46 AM
happness vs joy
there is a difference between happiness and joy, happness is experiencing outward circumstances that please us, joy is the out flowing of spiritual hope from the center out. We can have joy regardless of the circumstance, whereas happiness is circumstantially conditional. Hence the greed comes in, greed which is the opposite of hope, Hope being the spiritual aspect of reaching out for something not yet obtained, greed being latching onto something here and now. Thus the transitory aspect of happiness can be easily bought with amusement, sillyness, and empty trifles. The beauty of joy is that it is contagious when one walks in joy others are inspired in its wake.
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 8:35 AM
thanks for the joy...
... the inner experience of what you called "joy", which some would call a deeper source of happiness or simply "happiness - sure is what we really want.
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Fri, May 16, 2008 - 4:06 PM
In one teaching, I remember the following "May all beings rest in absolute equanimity, beyond fear and hope," I could understand wanting to be beyond fear, but why would we want to be beyond hope? And the teacher said said that this was because fear and hope are the same thing, that when we are hoping something will happen there is a flip side of potential negativity, how we might feel if we end up disappointed, and also there is some clinging or attachment therefore a type of chasing happiness greed, to hope.
And yet, research showed that hope increases the life span and as such is a positive thing... to have another opportunity realize something positive about life which is precious. I think that the idea is that the Buddhist alternative to hope is aspiration in the sense that aspiration means actively trying for something, but being prepared to accept if it doesn't happen, while hope is kind of more passive, and with more attachment. |
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 2:03 PM
India Arie - Little Things
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