What is Happiness?
- why do we need the untimate wisdom?
- Why do we need to practice Vipassana?
- Buddha said that wisdom will bring us real happiness, peafulness, harmony,
- What is happy?
- satisfying our desires:
- Supply meets Demand, the balance.
Happiness
The Taichi Yin-Yang simple structure:
| Yin Component supports: Objects in the environment (Materialism) |
Tai Chi: Differentiation System definition: Happiness is to feel that our desires are satisfied |
Yang Component operates: Desires (Spirituality) |
| The Yin that is both capable to support and currently supporting the Good Yang Our likes: beautiful materials food and wine people treasure reputation good memories |
Good | Yang that is both capable to operate and currently operating the Good Yin Our desires that is currently being satified through pleasent sensation triggered by our senses: Sight, Hearing, taste,smell, touch, memory in our mind |
| Recoverable: The Yin that is currently idle materials we process that we may desire in the furture |
Evil |
Recoverable: The Yang that is currently not in operation Desires that are currently not satified by materials not to get what one desires disassociation with something that one does like |
| Toxin: The Yin that is incable to support the Good Yang Associated with our dislikes: ugly rubbish bad taste foods people loans humiliation |
Toxin: The Yang that is operating outside the scope of the Taichi and incompatable with the Good Ying Our desires that can never be satisfied: always get what we want born in rich family born in a loving family never get sick never get old liberate without practice never get sorrow never get lamentation never get pain grief distress |
- But the possiblity of imbalances are highter!
- Happy: getting what we want 20% of the time
- unhappy:
- association with something that one does not like
- disassociation with something that one does like
- not to get what one desires
- -> suffering
- What can we do? How to maintain happiness?
