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Comic: Happiness

Postby Ytrog » Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:21 pm

Found this one:
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Suffering is asking from life what it can never give you.


mindfulness, bliss and beyond (page 8) wrote:Do not linger on the past. Do not keep carrying around coffins full of dead moments


If you see any unskillful speech (or other action) from me let me know, so I can learn from it.
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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby Dan74 » Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:57 am

:clap:
_/|\_
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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby RMSmith » Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:41 am

Wonderful!
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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby Hickersonia » Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:32 am

Ha! So simple! :rofl:
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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby SamKR » Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:45 am

Liked it.
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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby Kim O'Hara » Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:10 am

:twothumbsup:
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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby James the Giant » Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:30 am

Damn smug monk.
That cartoon rubs me up the wrong way.
Maybe it's the lack of irony.
Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby Ben » Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:00 am

James the Giant wrote:Damn smug monk.
That cartoon rubs me up the wrong way.
Maybe it's the lack of irony.


Me too, James.
...he wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion.

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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby daverupa » Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:36 am

He took the thought bubble though it wasn't offered; it is an offense for him.

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    "There is, headman, dhammasamādhi. If you were to obtain cittasamādhi in that, you might abandon this state of perplexity. And what, headman, is dhammasamādhi?

    [kammapatha & brahmavihara, & a method of arousing gladness]"
- SN 42.13 - Pāṭaliya


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Re: Comic: Happiness

Postby Hickersonia » Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:10 pm

daverupa wrote:He took the thought bubble though it wasn't offered; it is an offense for him.

:tongue:

I'd say after the guy spit on him, it was as good as offered. LOL :jumping:
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