Thursday, May 24, 2007

Identify What makes us happy

We have already discussed (or in your case, read through) the two steps namely
1. Identifying the cause of misery
Birth
Death
Old Age
Disease

2. Solution
We identified that whatever mistake we did to have suffered these miseries, we should not do. Like a person should not commit crime if he doesn't want to suffer in jail.

Now we come to the third step, i.e Identify the things which make us happy

Indeed very important. A person should know what makes one happy. It sounds foolish to even consider the situation otherwise.

For example, if we want to make someone we love happy, we really need to know that person.
A dog likes a bone, we cant expect to make it happy by giving it a tomato or a pizza or a pastry for that matter.
Similarly a person has some inherent desires whcih need to be fulfilled which will take him to the state of happiness.

Like to make XYZ happy, i need to know who XYZ is ? is it a dog, a bird, a cow, a kid, an adult, a man or a woman ?

To identify the cause of happiness, it is important to identify the one who needs to be made happy.

In this case we need to make ourselves happy. The object of all my pursuits should be "me" "I".

The question is who is me? Who am I ? I am still wondering, what about you ?

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