How to maintain Happiness
- when all the possibile imbalanced states are balanced by adjusting our demand (accepting whether we observe), the spectrum disappears, A will always be balance and will always be happy
- How to do it?
- we Act
- but whenever we act, we create another Taichi system
- be very careful what system we create to maintain our happiness
- solution 1: create a system that will manipulate the supply to meet our desires
- Express our desires
- Economics:
- How to satisfy the desires with scared resources
- the Greek for oikos (house) and nomos (custom or law), hence "rules of the house(hold)."[1]
- Desire -> Materialism -> Money (resources) -> Power -> War -> Country -> Government -> Politics
- can achieve happiness?
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
- Gross National Product (GNP),
- Gross National Income (GNI),
- Gross National Happiness (GNH)
- the people, the weather, the events happening around cannot be 100% controlled!!!
- solution 2: create a system that will regulate the demand to meet our supply-> government, law, religion, communism -> can achieve happiness?
- our mind cannot be 100% controlled by others
- How can we regulate the demand by ourself?
- create a system call "morality"
- keep telling outself "not to" suppress our desires
- try not to think about your favoritte food for 1minute
- our mind can never stops, it grasp on thoughts everysecond
- create a system call "concentration"
- concentrate on one thing
- concentrate on your fovorite food for 1minute is easy
- create more desire?
- gradually less desire for that object as you get bored
- but then what should we concentrate on?
- how many more different kinds of desire will come into our mind?
- in the end, the object of concentration will become us?
- how to get rid of the final "concentration system?
- pray, meditate
- attain Wisdom and create a system that will eliminate all our desires and then eliminate itself in the end
- in the known history of mankind, only Buddha discover this method and able to teach others
- Buddha said that he did not invent this method but only re-discover it again
- it was the method of all the enlightened ones in the past, at the present moment, or in the furture
- Buddha called it Vipassana, the EightFold Nobal Path
