Buddhists 'really are happier'

[Czar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3047291.stm
think we all should become Buddhists

 

[datalink7]

I thought they were supposed to forsake happiness and sadness both?

 

[dighn]

taht's why many buddhists are chubby! they don't woryr too much i guess

 

[Anubis]

well when you live your life passive about just about everything it makes sence

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

scientists also found heroin induces brain changes affecting mood. you don't see many heroin converts.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Buddism doesn't kill you when you do it too much.

 

[OS]

I seriously have thoughts from time to time to just say f*ck it all and become a buddhist monk.

 

[andyfasthands]

Originally posted by: OS
I seriously have thoughts from time to time to just say f*ck it all and become a buddhist monk.

hehe me too

 

[tjaisv]

You don't have to be Buddhist. It's all a state of mind. You create your own reality.

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: tjaisv
You don't have to be Buddhist. It's all a state of mind. You create your own reality.

[matrix]What is real? How do you define "real". If real is something you can see, you can smell you can touch, then "real" is nothing but a electrical signals intrepeted by your brain[/matrix]

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: tjaisv
You don't have to be Buddhist. It's all a state of mind. You create your own reality.

[matrix]What is real? How do you define "real". If real is something you can see, you can smell you can touch, then "real" is nothing but a electrical signals intrepeted by your brain[/matrix]

rofl

 

[GaryShandling]

Aslong as your on here, youll never achieve purified peace of mind.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: GaryShandling
Aslong as your on here, youll never achieve purified peace of mind.

you're

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: GaryShandling
Aslong as your on here, youll never achieve purified peace of mind.

you're

ur

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1
well when you live your life passive about just about everything it makes sence

I do not think you quite understand what Buddhism is.

Bud?dhism \"bu-'di-zem, "bu-\ noun (1801)
: a religion of eastern and central Asia growing out of the teaching of Gautama Buddha that suffering is inherent in life and that one can be liberated from it by mental and moral self-purification
Bud?dhist \"bu-dist, "bu-\ noun or adjective
Bud?dhis?tic \bu-"dis-tik, bu-\ adjective

(C)1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. All rights reserved.

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: datalink7
I thought they were supposed to forsake happiness and sadness both?

Yeah, that is what I thought too?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: GaryShandling
Aslong as your on here, youll never achieve purified peace of mind.

you're

ur