Buddhists don't beleive in God and yet they are happy. They cannot therefore 
be controlled.


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From: "TurquoiseB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:37 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'The Happiest Man in the World'


> Just a general comment on the kneejerk posts by Sparaig
> and Nablus in reaction to the mention of the Dalai Lama
> and other Buddhists today.
>
> Isn't it fascinating how THREATENED TMers are by
> Buddhists and Buddhism? I mean, it's like they're still
> acting out the way that Hindus were threatened by him
> and dissed him when he first appeared. Weird, if you
> ask me...
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
>> >
>> > So much for the tradition of balance (middle way) in Buddhism.
>> >
>> > --- In [email protected], Robert Gimbel <babajii_99@>
> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >  The happiest man in the world? ... and you can learn how he
> does it, says academic-
>> > turned-Buddhist monk   By Anthony Barnes Published: 21 January
> 2007
>>
>> More to the point, where's teh accusation that someone who spends
> 10,000 hours of happy
>> time isn't addicted to happy time (bliss)?
>>
>> I mean, if someone told you that they spend many hours per day doing
> something just so
>> they can be happy (not so they can produce something, or fulfill a
> dream or perfect a skill or
>> even attain world peace or enlightenment--just "be happy"), you
> would start to wonder
>> whether or not there's a psychological issue there.
>>
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