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Re: Happiness (now in easy to swallow gelcaps!)
Wait, so if I had a glass of wine and I'm happy, then I am an addict?
There was nothing said about an inability to be happy without the drug. In fact, that probably best summarizes addiction. Anything that takes over your life in such a way as to cause a problem. This drug is defined as not addicting.
I tend to believe that such a drug would never be distributed because it might destroy the capitalist system. If people didn't need to try to fill their inner selves with commercial trash and toys, also an addictive behavior, but were happy with a simpler life - then the GDP would tumble. Lot's of fat people would lose weight, another common addiction. Might help the trade imbalance though. 
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Originally Posted by Eglaelin
Namaste,
The best indicators of the unreal nature of such happiness is simple. The need for a drug(an outside source) to induce the state. The fact that the happiness disappears after the drug (an outside source) has been assimilated by your body. Of course, these perceptions only have an impact dependent on how you perceive things. If you perceive that simple body pleasure is the source of happiness then the drug will bring you happiness. If you perceive that the source of happiness is something else then you will realize that the drug does not bring happiness. To me the entire idea of using a drug to induce a euphoric sense of happiness is not different than using any other drug to do so. The simple fact that the drug does not create a physical addiction does not make it any less dangerous.
On the subject of happiness I will finish with a quote from my favorite spiritual leader, the Daial Lama:
In Peace.
Eglaelin
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