For whatever reason, perhaps lacking ambition or too stolid a character, contentment seems an adequate attitude.
So I did not vote.
How much happy are you?
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Re: How much happy are you?
Good and evil have no fixed form. It's as easy to turn from doing bad to doing good as it is to flip over the hand from the back to the palm. It's simply up to us to do it. Master Hsuan Hua.
Re: How much happy are you?
I respect your decision. However, as a Kalyanamitta I have to point you out that Buddha's advise is not to content until you attain Nibbana. You have to be aware of Subtle unhappiness in your consciousness.
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
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Re: How much happy are you?
Maybe they sell it in very small bottles in Tesco.
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Re: How much happy are you?
Yes, if they sell this:
edit: I just looked it up and they do sell happiness:
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p ... /279513467
Last edited by DNS on Sun Dec 10, 2017 5:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: added link to tesco
Reason: added link to tesco
Re: How much happy are you?
If you already vote, is it in line with the following Sutta?
Bahuvedaniya Suttam
https://suttacentral.net/en/mn59
Bahuvedaniya Suttam
https://suttacentral.net/en/mn59
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
Re: How much happy are you?
I had to look up Tesco haha.
sabbe dhammā nālaṃ abhinivesāya
"nothing whatsoever should be clung to"
"nothing whatsoever should be clung to"
Re: How much happy are you?
Sarath, thank goodness you made the poll editable because my happiness percentages are rising.
Re: How much happy are you?
Looks like we have a couple arhats on here. Sweet.
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Re: How much happy are you?
Mine are going down due to seasonal bah-humbuggery.
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Re: How much happy are you?
Oh no! Why does Christmas perturb you, if I may ask.
Re: How much happy are you?
It is important to note the transient nature of our mundane happiness.
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
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Re: How much happy are you?
I notice you have a 100% category but no 0% category. Anyway, hopefully no one is 0% but if we define 100% as someone being an arahant, then 0% would be more common than 100%.
Re: How much happy are you?
I think the poll system only allows for 10 options, doesn't it. Would be worth increasing it if that's the case.
Re: How much happy are you?
I thought 0 would be depression or you are in hell.
I may be wrong.
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
Re: How much happy are you?
Now I started to wonder whether my unhappiness is coming from nuetral feelings. I am cut of from most sensual gratification. Nuetral feeling with ignorance is unpleasant.
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”