(October 5, 2014 at 8:22 am)Riketto Wrote: Ok. let us have a simple test to find out whether you have peace of mind and happiness.Good thing you're not presumptuous, or anything like that.
Quote:1) When you buy a new tv or a car or anything else do you feel sad or a bit frustrated to see that the new model that just came out look better than the one that you just bought?Yes or no?No.
Quote:2) Suppose that you loose your job or you are terrible short of money. Does your feeling change or you keep your usual feeling? Yes or no?I'm not even sure I understand what you mean. But if I was to find myself in a tight financial situation, I'd remain determined to find a way back to success and be confident that I would do so. So I would "keep my usual feeling."
Quote:3) Suppose a love one just pass away. Do you feel very sorry or you think that he will be ok. after all and no pain is felt within? Feel sorry - not feel sorry?If a person dies, why would I think that he was okay? He's dead. I would mourn and move on after a period of grief.
Quote:If your feeling change than you haven't got peace of mind and permanent happiness.If my feelings don't change then I'm a robot. If my feelings change but I am able to maintain my mental and emotional balance and see the larger picture, I have peace of mind and happiness.
If on the contrary your feeling doesn't change under the circumstances then you are ok.
I notice that you keep trying to qualify happiness. First you called it "total happiness" and now you call it "permanent happiness." Perhaps this is why you struggle with the concept. You want to believe that there is some higher plane of feeling so that no matter how peaceful or happy you are, you think that there is some greater feeling of peace or happiness that is denied to you. Why would you do that to yourself?
Life has its ups and downs, and you enjoy the ups and handle the downs. Apparently, when you are 'up' you are still down because you're not "totally" up or "permanently" up. That's a pretty awful way to go through life.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould