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Uploaded by on Feb 26, 2010

Speaker: Badrinarayan Prabhu

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  • I think religion has always an answer when we don't have an answer

  • We are either looking forward or looking back and the moments when we are truly happy are few and far between. We all need to live a good percentage of our lives in the hear and now. If you can do that you will be truly happy. How you do it, I don't know but a religion is not always the answer.

  • Hmm, i'm not sure. Sometimes the anticipation is better than the satiation of your desire, what ever it may be. For example, if you fast all day, and then have a huge meal in the evening you will really appreciate the food, as you will have been looking forward to it all day long. Also, if you were constantly satisfied, you'd have nothing to work towards. Constant satiation can lead to boredom and a lack of appreciation...

  • He may not have actually enjoyed his time at school or work. He may have endured them in the false hope that they would bring him satisfaction. When he had retired he had to pretend that he had enjoyed his time to justify to himself why he had done so. If he admitted that he had endured something he had never enjoyed to acheive something he does not enjoy he would have been admitting that he had wasted his entire life.

  • (...) They're very much alive those days too! I do this also, waiting for holidays and all. But I try to appreciate all days anyway. Great video! Thanks,

  • wow this is so true, I talked to my mother about this yesterday for a really long time. I've realised at 18 years of age that you have to plan your future, look back into the past not to do the same mistakes again, but live today! Everyone is always waiting for the week end, and when monday comes they work their way through the days to get to those two days of rest. But why dont they wait for a monday? or a tuesday?(...)

  • Well hedonism only refers to enjoyment of the senses, but if we find a happiness that is beyond the body, beyond past-present-future, then wherever you're situated it won't matter, because you'll have that reservoir of pleasure from within =)

  • haha yeah philosophy seems depressing sometimes... but its not! =D

    I think its more a case of... if we're always putting off our happiness for the future, when do we ever find it. so we should be seeking a way to be satisfied all the time

  • I think you are right about enjoying the journey. But I don't think he implies that looking forward is a bad thing, rather if you can't enjoy the journey then there really is no point in planning ahead. And enjoying the journey is much about being present - that is the claim anyway.

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