Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What is best path to happiness?”, Leave a Reply below!
Ignorance
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Joseph Campbell said it best, “follow your bliss”. This can be further understood through the Buddhist concepts of Sat, Chid and Ananda. Sat is truth, but we only know things relative to other things, so we don’t know when we have found that. Chid is ultimate consciousness, we may find a higher state than we have found in the past, but how do we know if we have found the ultimate. Ananda is bliss, what delights us, and we can know this. Following Ananda will bring us to higher states of understanding and being. If it doesn’t, then you probably have it confused with passion, which is just doing what feels good. Ananda is the type of delight that requires some discipline and practice, a little work. For example you might enjoy standing on top of a mountain. What it takes to get you there will have some lessons about happiness in it.
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I don’t think there’s ever going to be a one-size-fits-all answer. It seems like we each have to figure out our own way picking and choosing among the best data we can uncover for ourselves.
There is, however, another sense to this question entirely, and it depends on how you define “happiness”. If it describes an individual’s mental state, we can each always arrive at something like happiness merely by changing our brain chemistry.
As Robert Ingersoll said, ‘The way to be happy is to make others so.’
a good job, lots of sex and a nice, indifferent cat