Comments on: How-To: Increase Happiness, Good Times in Life http://mcnitt.com/how-to-increase-happiness-good-times-in-life/ Web strategy, social networking, standards-based development, accessibility, triathlon, web memes, and other bits of fun. Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Leftsider http://mcnitt.com/how-to-increase-happiness-good-times-in-life/comment-page-1/#comment-27107 Leftsider Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:53:45 +0000 http://mcnitt.com/?p=646#comment-27107 If you change "fully committed" to the more ambiguously accurate (accurately ambiguous?) term "right," I think you've nailed two of the folds in the Noble Eightfold Path. And certainly your description of dissatisfaction is what was Buddha Gautama's catalyst for change; feeling this dukkha, he meditated on it and developed a course of action. It's nice to see that we to can follow the same methods--that they are not beyond our reach or too complex to undertake. If only more people would do so, it would be a benefit to all. If you change “fully committed” to the more ambiguously accurate (accurately ambiguous?) term “right,” I think you’ve nailed two of the folds in the Noble Eightfold Path. And certainly your description of dissatisfaction is what was Buddha Gautama’s catalyst for change; feeling this dukkha, he meditated on it and developed a course of action.

It’s nice to see that we to can follow the same methods–that they are not beyond our reach or too complex to undertake. If only more people would do so, it would be a benefit to all.

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