I Want Happiness

[noy]

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up for no ego and evil desires..hahaha!!! desire is good...example:my desire is to see the work of Gods' hands in my life..

[Breakeven]

We cannot deny our true self. Tabla rag atong giilad atong self ana if the solution is to deny it, our ego..


I want to share something about this reality:

Straying from the Buddhist Path — Why I stopped following Buddha and started following Jesus?

I came to the Buddhist path as a seeker. I was skeptical about religious claims, but felt a deep void in my life. I yearned for meaning and truth in a unpredictable and often hostile world. In Buddhism, I thought I had found what I was searching for.

Buddhists has never started a war. There was never a Buddhist Inquisition. They emphasized wisdom, compassion, lovingkindness, and personal transformation. And they certainly never threatened me with eternity in a lake of fire.

But it was not meant to be. That deep void in my life? It was what has often been described as a “God-shaped vacuum”—the emptiness that only God can fill. We are His creation, made in His image. He intends for us to have a relationship with Him and, when we are without Him, we feel empty and alone. No matter how long I meditated or what teachings I read, I could not fill this emptiness in my life. For in Buddhism, there is no sovereign, loving Creator.

source: BUDDHISM - Why I stopped following Buddha and started following Jesus Christ?

[Breakeven]

nice conversation about the topic of buddhism:

GORDON ROBERTSON: Let's deal with some of the major world religions. What would you say to a Buddhist? How would you contrast the uniqueness of Christ to a Buddhist?

RAVI ZACHARIAS: That's an excellent question because Buddhism is gaining a lot of popularity. It is a very much-pursued idea today. What I've done in the book is, rather than coming in an in-your-face response, because that could offend, I've taken questions that Jesus answered that neither Buddha, Mohammed nor Krishna would have answered the same way, and you see the uniqueness and the coherence very persuasively, I trust. The opening line in the Buddhist scriptures is every life is paying its karma for its previous birth. Buddhism is non-theistic, possibly atheistic, and when you deal with Buddhism, therefore, it really is an ethical theory about how to be good without positing God. You can have goodness without God is Buddhism's fundamental assumption -- and the answer is in you, through the Eightfold Path, and you go on.

There are many issues that one can raise. But let us suppose this one aspect of Buddhism that there is really no God. How does, then, one define goodness as you come back? Where does goodness come from? What really is evil?

Secondly, it tells you that you have an infinite series of rebirths. If there is an infinite series of rebirths, infinity -- infinity is an unending, uncountable. But if Buddha attained nirvana, then it must be countable. He came to a number. It is a finite series of births. So if you talk of an infinite series of rebirths, but Buddha himself had a finite series of rebirths, in order to attain Buddhahood, you immediately begin to see the contradiction. What you really have to understand is that the human heart is desperately wicked and evil and cannot in its own self solve the problem. And at the heart of Buddhism, Gordon -- and the listener must hear this very carefully -- at the heart of Buddhism is the loss of the concept of self because Buddhism's fundamental doctrine is that there's no essential nature of self -- anatman. Hinduism talked of atman, the essential self. Anatman is the non-essential self.

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth. When you're crucified with Christ nevertheless you live, yet not you, but Christ lives in you. He retains the individuality and the identity, but brings it to fruition in your identity in the person of Christ. I think that's so unique that one cannot escape the ramifications.

[jovipeorliohacokijo]

paeta sad anang walay desire oi, it's in our genes naman na. pero kung nakaya nimo TS, congrats!

up for no ego and evil desires..hahaha!!! desire is good...example:my desire is to see the work of Gods' hands in my life..

completely no desire gyud, why? anything you receive is a gift and so celebrate gyud ka, happy kaayo ka, and unya kung wa kai madawat, since wa ka nagdesire for anything d gyud ka ma sad, so always happy ra gyud ka

[SioDenz]

True happiness can only be achieved when there is no ego and there is no desire. What do you think?


This thread is all about having no ego and desires, the practice of humility for true happiness.

Lisod sad kaayu ug way Desire... kanang mga way desire bro kana nang mga tawo nga 40 anyos nlan nitipun pag puyo sa iyang ginikanan, way trabaho, cge rag higda ug laag nya nagpa buhi sa mama ug papa.

[SioDenz]

For me, happiness is a Balance between DESIRE and CONTENTMENT

[noy]

completely no desire gyud, why? anything you receive is a gift and so celebrate gyud ka, happy kaayo ka, and unya kung wa kai madawat, since wa ka nagdesire for anything d gyud ka ma sad, so always happy ra gyud ka

the very fact that you want to be happy bro is already a desire..
the most sure way to be happy is humility..
now if you equate humility to having no desire..that is not necessarily correct.

is choosing not to hope or desire to avoid ill feelings of frustration
a form of humilty?
kung kabalo ka mukanta and of course loves singing,dayun di ka muapil ug singing contest kay di ka ganahan ma frustrated or mapildi..
does that show humility? i see pride.

[Breakeven]

hhahaha......you have the point @noy. Thats true. Denying one's self is an illusion.

[jovipeorliohacokijo]

Lisod sad kaayu ug way Desire... kanang mga way desire bro kana nang mga tawo nga 40 anyos nlan nitipun pag puyo sa iyang ginikanan, way trabaho, cge rag higda ug laag nya nagpa buhi sa mama ug papa.

kung nag desire siya ug trabaho para naa siya income unya wa gyud siya masudlan, ma sad siya bro ky syempre, tiguwang na siya, maghunahuna siya nga uwaw kaayo ky nagpabuhi lng siya, or nag desire siya nga managerial position, unya mapunta lng siya ug ultimo nga position, ma sad pud siya

kung mangapply lng siya any available position, do all the requirements needed, syempre kung naa taastaas nga position ug salary iyang unahon, without any desire ug taastaas nga position/salary, or madawat ba basta gibuhat lng tanan niyang requirements, if taastaas, happy siya, kung ultimo lng basta naa lng siya work, happy gihapon siya, remember wa siya nag desire, ug di siya madawat, di siya ma sad, ky wa man siya nag desire, then ngita na lng ug lain nga work nga kaapplyan

[jovipeorliohacokijo]

For me, happiness is a Balance between DESIRE and CONTENTMENT

kung naa ka desire bro, unya di matuman, then you will be sad, it will affect your happiness, unya naa ka gi desire unya dili mao, unya wa ka nakontento, ma sad pud ka

no ego and no desire, be humble lng and then you achieve true happiness