Comments on: Happiness and Simplicity http://mindreap.com/2009/12/06/happiness-and-simplicity/ harvesting productivity Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Walter http://mindreap.com/2009/12/06/happiness-and-simplicity/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Walter Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:35:24 +0000 http://mindreap.com/?p=312#comment-223 Happiness cannot be without suffering. Life should be seen in the light of understanding, never of resistance. :-) Happiness cannot be without suffering. Life should be seen in the light of understanding, never of resistance. :-)

]]> By: Rui Umezawa http://mindreap.com/2009/12/06/happiness-and-simplicity/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Rui Umezawa Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:15:48 +0000 http://mindreap.com/?p=312#comment-221 So true. Our thoughts, our worries, our plans.... All forms of self-validation without which we get nervous because they confirm to us that we exist. Each moment is but a flicker of light, gone instantly. We as we exist in the moment is the same -- gone before our thoughts are complete. When we start to understand our non-existence, we start to waste less energy on worrying. However, this is easy to say and very difficult to do. I still worry a lot. So it's back to training. But in the meantime, we can be good to each other, and to ourselves. All the best, Rui So true. Our thoughts, our worries, our plans…. All forms of self-validation without which we get nervous because they confirm to us that we exist.

Each moment is but a flicker of light, gone instantly. We as we exist in the moment is the same — gone before our thoughts are complete. When we start to understand our non-existence, we start to waste less energy on worrying. However, this is easy to say and very difficult to do. I still worry a lot.

So it’s back to training. But in the meantime, we can be good to each other, and to ourselves.

All the best,
Rui

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