The white path

Hubert · 07-01-2009, 01:29 PM

The white path.

If my happiness means other’s unhappiness, I refuse to be happy.
If I am happy while there is unhappiness, I feel ashamed by my happiness.
I cannot be happy until there is unhappiness in the world.

Hubert · 07-01-2009, 02:23 PM

... until there is STILL unhappiness in the world.

A humbling error of grammar. Thank you Techne.

FlexPenguin · 07-02-2009, 10:05 AM

Unless there is unhappiness, how can you know if you are happy?

Techne · 07-02-2009, 10:19 AM

When you're happy, you aren't concerned about whether or not you are happy and so there is no need for comparison.
(he, he -- gosh, haven't you ever been happy ; )?

Hubert · 07-08-2009, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlexPenguin

Unless there is unhappiness, how can you know if you are happy?

While there is unhappiness, how can you ever be happy without being sure that you can avoid unhappiness ? Your question implies the dualism of happiness-unhappiness. But real happiness must be beyond that, otherwise it is just a passing pleasurable state, poisoned by the thought of it's limited nature.
Thus, one cannot ever be fully happy, until there exists the slightest chance of unhappiness. To avoid this constant fear, we shut ourselves into our egos, like into walls what keep anything what might cause unhappiness, outside.

Techne · 07-08-2009, 01:40 PM

and that 'shut-in-ness' as is sure a barrier to happiness as whatever it shuts out.

I know that one.

GreenTea89 · 07-09-2009, 03:21 PM

I feel that through my own happiness and transference of that happiness on others I can make the world a happier place, by being unhappy I feel I transfer that unhappiness to the world.

07-01-2009, 01:29 PM	#1
Hubert sahásra Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Romania Posts: 1,240	The white path. If my happiness means other’s unhappiness, I refuse to be happy. If I am happy while there is unhappiness, I feel ashamed by my happiness. I cannot be happy until there is unhappiness in the world. __________________ "wahetever we deny or embrace, for worse or for better, we belong togheter" Pat Benatar

07-01-2009, 02:23 PM	#2
Hubert sahásra Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Romania Posts: 1,240	... until there is STILL unhappiness in the world. A humbling error of grammar. Thank you Techne. __________________ "wahetever we deny or embrace, for worse or for better, we belong togheter" Pat Benatar

07-02-2009, 10:05 AM	#3
FlexPenguin trishatá Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 303	Unless there is unhappiness, how can you know if you are happy? __________________ You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra

07-02-2009, 10:19 AM	#4
Techne saptashata Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Salem Oregon Posts: 784	When you're happy, you aren't concerned about whether or not you are happy and so there is no need for comparison. (he, he -- gosh, haven't you ever been happy ; )? __________________ Maranatha

07-08-2009, 01:40 PM	#6
Techne saptashata Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Salem Oregon Posts: 784	and that 'shut-in-ness' as is sure a barrier to happiness as whatever it shuts out. I know that one. __________________ Maranatha

07-09-2009, 03:21 PM	#7
GreenTea89 pañcan Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: umgd Posts: 5	I feel that through my own happiness and transference of that happiness on others I can make the world a happier place, by being unhappy I feel I transfer that unhappiness to the world.

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