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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[balsamicdragon.livejournal.com]

I certainly agree that intent matters a lot. I'm very unclear as to where the concept of compassion falls in Buddhist thinking? Or inherently known morality? My impression was that those were more Western concepts.

[jducoeur]

Honestly don't know -- like I said, I'm a novice. And me being me, likely fairly idiosyncratic. (Syncretism's pretty much a way of life for me.)

I'm not really working from any sort of orthodoxy here: it's mostly a matter that I find that the central precepts speak to me remarkably well, and I'm exploring from there. I suppose the results can most accurately be described as "Buddhist-inspired": substantially adapted from the initial teachings as I understand them, but likely often at odds with how things evolved...