Happiness doesn't exist (kind of)

[jducoeur]

My thanks to mindways for the pointer to this fine exposition of the heart of Buddhism. While it's by no means the complete be-all and end-all, this nicely summarizes one of the most central tenets. It's very unintuitive to most folks, because it is *so* contradictory to our upbringing, but more and more I've found it to be quite correct...

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Thanks

[etherial.livejournal.com]

This is the first treatise on Buddhism I've read that didn't feel like an argument in favor of mass suicide.

Re: Thanks

[jducoeur]

Yeah -- Buddhism is often incorrectly seen as nihilistic, which happens because the concepts are so very different from the usual (especially Western) assumptions, and are often poorly described. This article states it much better than I could, with an appropriately positive focus...