bradley

maybe its supposed to be a play on words, like the "Dude"-hha, but thats like just my opinion man.

i think your describing pleasure. pleasure and happiness are different things in my book. i think the concept is if you abstain from excessive pleasure seeking, thats when root happiness can take hold. when not seeking pleasure for its own sake, it can also amplifies the pleasurable experiences that do arise naturally. its not that you avoid pleasure, you just dont seek it for its own sake. try avoiding all sugar for a week and see what it does to your pallette...

my weird thought. karma is basically like time. its the force connecting one state of being in one moment to the next. maybe then karma is basically the force of gravity per relativity... just weird thought i had.

cause of many emotional problems is dopamine imbalance--though easy to attribute to demons or something unworldly like that because it takes away your own personal responsibility in the matter. engaging in pleasurable stimulation exacerbates the downward cycle. the cycle is improved though abstinence and pain. Rigorous physical exercise is a good way to improve the cycle. Simple zen meditation too. Hard work too. Internet scrolling bad.

Can I ask a question, so I am pretty happy and dont see "evil" running amuck in my own life, but when I think about some of the bad things that have happened in the past 200 years, it seems like there are sometimes these anti-karmic or dark-karma effects in the world. People undertaking "bad" actions many times (but not always) are the ones who accumulate more power, which only extends their ability to do undertake similarly "bad" actions. Most social systems do not reward morality. it seems like they mostly reward risk and aggression, and there is a feed back loop where when someone gains power they are more protected from consequences and and can better shape the rules in their favor. This amoral feedback loop is i guess is slightly different than karma. And, maybe these people do "get theirs" in the end and maybe they are deeply suffering individuals, but I don't think that's always true. Having worked at a large corporation, amorality seemed to be the rule for promotion, not the exception. So is there any validity to this kind of concept? Also, is evil the same as immorality?

I have to say, I am pretty happy in the world I live, and I don't think evil is running wild.

just picked this up.

Same in finnish: taivas. I once said to my neighbor in broken finnish something like "the sky is beautiful" and he got this weird look on his face. afterwards, i figured he probably thought I was talking about heaven.

the verbal version of moral would be moralize, and the participle, moralized. Thus, "a moral that can be moralized is not an eternal moral." Not presenting an opinion, just pointing this out. This is a super interesting conversation, though. Appreciate it.

he is MonSanta* spent, he's left the phosphate mine Christmas dinner's near *took me a minute to figure this out, but chuckled when I did ... who in the world is MonSanta : )

All else I release barbies, plush cats, candies, books cookies santa keeps

This is super interesting.

well what does perfect really mean anyway. and when is something imperfect? bit of a paradox if you think about it deeply, as perfection is in the eye of the beholder.

but wait--what's that rub? sweet smell of smoke and corn bread pat's friday burnt ends

this makes sense. see i thought they got that from the wesley snipes movie for some reason, but its all coming together for me now, yes okay, fine, japan is much more east of china than west.