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[aguadora]

Monday morning. Trying to tidy up my desk. Transcribing podcast notes scribbled in the margins of work documents.

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Notes on CBC Ideas' episode: "Saying No To Happiness"

Life is suffering. Buddhism - Four Noble Truths. All of life is dukkha - suffering.

Soren Kiekegaard - coined "angst" - the anxiety of limited beings overwhelmed by the infinite. The

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[plainsight]

I was just listening to a podcast meditation on true happiness. My notes say that:

• true happiness = great freedom, love, understanding
• happiness is not in the five senses thus not in wealth, fame, power, sex, luxurious food, and material objects because these create great suffering (dukkha) through enslavement.

We're learning similar ideas.

[aguadora]

hey neat! what podcast is yours from?

it's nice to be doing a bit of thinking again. although I think somewhere in the podcast it says the moment you start thinking about whether or not you ARE happy, then you've blown it. which makes sense, because happy people are too busy living their lives and doing (presumably) great things, while the rest of us unhappy people spend our time blogging about it. :P

[plainsight]

Sounds True, which I don't recommend because most of the time the discussions are flaky New Age.

[jimperio]

Happiness in intelligent people, etc. Although admittedly that seems more like a huge cop-out than anything. :P I don't know that happiness can be arrived at by thinking, at least the sort that I'm familiar with and have been doing over the past vaguely-addled years, despite some near-epiphanic (yeah right) moments...