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Friday, December 12, 2008

Joy


I'm trying to make "joy" my personal keyword for the day.

Why not.

There is a four part Buddhist prayer and the third part of the prayer states -

"May they never be separated from the highest bliss which is free of suffering."

The they in the prayer refers to everyone and the highest bliss is simply - joy.

So the line is a determined interest in wanting everyone to have joy now.

In simplest terms the prayer would read - Joy Now.

We are talking about Joy not Schadenfreude. Schadenfreude is taking joy in somebody's misery or failure, particularly an enemy. This is a big no no. We can't do this. Its actually low low brow and we are much better than that.

So - Joy and then I'm going to sleep cause I'm beat.

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