The humour aside, the video has a poignant message.
Yet, why?
Everything is amazing yet nobody is happy
Everything is amazing yet nobody is happy
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Everything is amazing yet nobody is happy
I am glad I watched it - it's hilarious, Ben, but also true. We do tend to just take it for granted. That's hardly surprising - when you grow up with something, you generally just take it for granted.
I try to explain to my kids how much work goes into all these things they take for granted. How many great ideas, years of exploration that led to them, how much labour and all the different people working together to make it happen. Etc etc
I recall coming to this country 25 years ago how my parents marvelled at how well things work here, how prosperous the place was, how many opportunities existed for people and how often people just squandered these amazing opportunities. And now looking back I can see a fair few I have squandered myself...
I try to explain to my kids how much work goes into all these things they take for granted. How many great ideas, years of exploration that led to them, how much labour and all the different people working together to make it happen. Etc etc
I recall coming to this country 25 years ago how my parents marvelled at how well things work here, how prosperous the place was, how many opportunities existed for people and how often people just squandered these amazing opportunities. And now looking back I can see a fair few I have squandered myself...
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Re: Everything is amazing yet nobody is happy
Thanks Ben - really funny and true!
with metta
Chris
with metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
Re: Everything is amazing yet nobody is happy
Louie CK is amazing. Check out his TV show "Louie", it is terrific. He is really doing some interesting work.
“Life is swept along, short is the life span; no shelters exist for one who has reached old age. Seeing clearly this danger in death, a seeker of peace should drop the world’s bait.” SN 1.3
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Louis C.K. is a perennial favorite of mine. Some vulgarity aside, he is probably the most intelligent comedian working today.
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
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censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
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Re: Everything is amazing yet nobody is happy
It's interesting the story behind the scenes. It was Louis CK himself that got pissed by the internet shutting down. He tells the story as if it was another guy. He says that, usualy, when he tells a story about someone acting stupid, it was him who was acting stupid.
Louis CK is a great comedian, and has a great show called "Louie". If you want to see something funny by him, watch how Louie dealt with Donald Rumsfeld in a radio show. It's probably one of the best things I ever saw him doing:
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Too bad he's going to the hell of laughter!
Louis CK is a great comedian, and has a great show called "Louie". If you want to see something funny by him, watch how Louie dealt with Donald Rumsfeld in a radio show. It's probably one of the best things I ever saw him doing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK8Y2nO_8TM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Too bad he's going to the hell of laughter!
'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' - Jhana Sutta
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It is funny because it is true
Suffering is asking from life what it can never give you.
If you see any unskillful speech (or other action) from me let me know, so I can learn from it.mindfulness, bliss and beyond (page 8) wrote:Do not linger on the past. Do not keep carrying around coffins full of dead moments
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Classic!!
Sotthī hontu nirantaraṃ - May you forever be well.