02-20-2010, 12:27 PM
This man is a fine soul which decided to stay on this planet on the first harvest 75'000 years ago I'm sure.
I'm currently reading the book called "Happiness!" (or somesuch in english). Dalai Lama claims, in contradiction to the western popular belief that the human nature is destructive and selfish, that human nature is compassionate, caring and loving. The destructive and selfish nature is only produced through encouraging through society.
He is convinced that finding happiness is our purpose in life, and promoting integrating, compassionate and good feelings will achieve this as one also eliminates that which causes hate, anger etc.
I find this to be very true... what you give out is what you get back. Both physically and mentally. When I do kind things and try to focus on positive sides of my fellow humans and appreciate them I feel close to them and thus not alone. If I dislike and hate them I feel lonely.
Dalai Lama also speaks of mental discipline. It's like training yourself to be positive. The more you try to see the good in all, the easier it will be. You will change your own reality. The more you want what you have the less greed is within you.
I have found myself to feel better everytime I successfully transmute anger within myself to something compassionate. Then I have elimitated a negative feeling and produced a positive.
He also claims that you should not confuse Happiness with Pleasure. There is great confusing in the western world about this, where we are fed endless temptations of "pleasure" but none about lasting, eternal "happiness".
His first and last advice is, to find happiness, is to ask yourself when at any decision: "Does this make me happy?". So simple and effective. Does being angry make you happy? Buying those shoes? Going for that walk? ("Act on your excitement"). This applies both mentally and physically.
Everything is really congruent with LOO... I recommend reading some about him!
I'm currently reading the book called "Happiness!" (or somesuch in english). Dalai Lama claims, in contradiction to the western popular belief that the human nature is destructive and selfish, that human nature is compassionate, caring and loving. The destructive and selfish nature is only produced through encouraging through society.
He is convinced that finding happiness is our purpose in life, and promoting integrating, compassionate and good feelings will achieve this as one also eliminates that which causes hate, anger etc.
I find this to be very true... what you give out is what you get back. Both physically and mentally. When I do kind things and try to focus on positive sides of my fellow humans and appreciate them I feel close to them and thus not alone. If I dislike and hate them I feel lonely.
Dalai Lama also speaks of mental discipline. It's like training yourself to be positive. The more you try to see the good in all, the easier it will be. You will change your own reality. The more you want what you have the less greed is within you.
I have found myself to feel better everytime I successfully transmute anger within myself to something compassionate. Then I have elimitated a negative feeling and produced a positive.
He also claims that you should not confuse Happiness with Pleasure. There is great confusing in the western world about this, where we are fed endless temptations of "pleasure" but none about lasting, eternal "happiness".
His first and last advice is, to find happiness, is to ask yourself when at any decision: "Does this make me happy?". So simple and effective. Does being angry make you happy? Buying those shoes? Going for that walk? ("Act on your excitement"). This applies both mentally and physically.
Everything is really congruent with LOO... I recommend reading some about him!