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Old 08-29-2007, 05:16 AM
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Chocolate holds the answer to this question. This could not be easier...
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Old 08-29-2007, 10:05 AM
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Chocolate holds the answer to this question. This could not be easier...
by god Watson, I think you've got it!
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Old 09-01-2007, 09:35 AM
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If one is happy would also mean that he could be sad.
The middle path of Buddha means that one is in the centre neither this or that side of anything. If one is centred happiness/sadness does not affect him. Such a person can see the swings of the pendulum and does not get carried away.
Chocolate is good BUt too much will be bad.
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Old 09-01-2007, 10:36 AM
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If one is happy would also mean that he could be sad.
The middle path of Buddha means that one is in the centre neither this or that side of anything. If one is centred happiness/sadness does not affect him. Such a person can see the swings of the pendulum and does not get carried away.
Chocolate is good BUt too much will be bad.
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What if both experiences are Tao?

And never say bad things about chocolate!
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Samuel Johnson: "That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."
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Old 09-01-2007, 10:48 AM
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Samuel Johnson: "That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."
I don't know what that means ... what is "the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness"?
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Old 09-01-2007, 11:06 AM
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Samuel Johnson: "That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."
May i ask why satisfaction cannot be a part of happiness? Why can't excitement or love be happiness? Do they not cause sensations that lead to a "clarity" of being?
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When we think of happiness, what do we think about? What is the true nature of happiness, and is it something we want, have, need, don't need, etc...

Can we really ask ourselves... "Am I happy?"
I'm not sure, I think it may of been Schopenhauer, who defined happiness as the temporary cessation of pain, by this I assume he means both emotional and physical pain. I tend to agree with this notion.

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