Do You Think Life Is About Happiness or Experience?

[Rilles]

Imo its about experience. Happiness is just one small part of reality. The vastness of experience you can have is way bigger than just being happy and comfortable. Real life consists of darkness, dissappointment, regret, fear, shame, madness, mystery doesnt it? Try to throw away the idea of happiness being the end goal and actually look at what is going on. Life will test you and throw curveballs at you, not because it hates you, because it wants you to experience. Thats what stretches your mind to new horizons. You can try cooping up and holding on to little nuggets of happiness but they will slip through your hands eventually. Try to flow with the oscillations instead. Marvel at this strange thing we call reality. 

You can disagree, this is just my little perspective. I want to have a relative discussion, so dont be too Neo-Advaitish in your replies. What do you think?

[Leo Gura]

It's about Infinite Love

[Rilles]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's about Infinite Love

Amen! 

[itachi uchiha]

For me , i eliminated stress, i made change very small as such that i can enjoy making change and i learned to love the love the process.also in every field first 4 years was suffering and after 4 years doing that thing is like a hit of crack cocaine

[Preety_India]

It's about learning from experience and then using experience to live happy. 

 

[Gesundheit2]

Happiness.

[Rilles]

4 minutes ago, Gesundheit2 said:

Happiness.

Elaborate! 

[gettoefl]

experience without preference is the only happiness

gimme your best shot

it's all good

[Rilles]

15 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

It's about learning from experience and then using experience to live happy. 

 

Until life comes and ruins your happiness again to make you grow even more. 

[Salvijus]

Life is to be lived, lived totally. In max intensity. So max that you go mahasamadhi ? 

[Rilles]

7 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

Life is to be lived, lived totally. In max intensity. So max that you go mahasamadhi ? 

I like that philosophy! ??

[mandyjw]

For Harry Potter, there is darkness and loss, and joy, courage, love, friendship and happiness. 

For J K Rowling there are all of these and none of these, but all come out of and are of creative/love for a character/reader that is not. 

There is no Harry Potter.

There is no J K Rowling.

There is no neo advaita.   I still love you though. 

 

[mandyjw]

Funny, when you write a novel, your character is what you KNOW, you focus on them, you come up with everything about them. You know their background, hair and eye color, etc. The reader is totally vague, you write the character FOR the reader, but you never know or determine exactly who that reader is, they might be anyone, they don't exist for you. But comparing the two, the reader is actual and the character is not.

There aren't two. 

[Rilles]

9 minutes ago, mandyjw said:

For Harry Potter, there is darkness and loss, and joy, courage, love, friendship and happiness. 

For J K Rowling there are all of these and none of these, but all come out of and are of creative/love for a character/reader that is not. 

There is no Harry Potter.

There is no J K Rowling.

There is no neo advaita.   I still love you though. 

 

There is no Advaita. There is only Neo. The one. I am that.  

[mandyjw]

Just now, Rilles said:

There is no Advaita. There is only Neo. The one. I am that.  

One is still a number. You came here to feel. You are an in divid ual, undividable.

Mom said that we could split the last cookie if we did our homework without complaining, but the whole damn thing is Mine you asshole.  I'm just kidding of course, there's no cookie. 

[Someone here]

Life is about survival and nothing else. 

[Gesundheit2]

1 hour ago, Someone here said:

Life is about survival and nothing else. 

Explain suicide.

[Rilles]

1 minute ago, Gesundheit2 said:

Explain suicide.

Suicide is the survival attempt of the ego. "Rather die than be known as this". Get it?

[Gesundheit2]

1 minute ago, Rilles said:

Suicide is the survival attempt of the ego. "Rather die than be known as this". Get it?

Explain martyrdom.

[Rilles]

2 minutes ago, Gesundheit2 said:

Explain martyrdom.

Same thing. Id rather die as a good boy than fail my God.