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18 - Freedom From The Pursuit Of Happiness

Secular Buddhism

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Happiness Is Just an Emotion

Happiness is just an emotion. When the conditions are there, we experience it. And when they're not there, we don't. There's a baseline where once your basic human needs are met, beyond that, there's no change. Money, power, fame, none of it's going to guarantee more happiness. But if you're under the baseline, then yes. If you don't have proper shelter, you don'thave love, or you don't has your basic humanneeds aren't met, then yeah, that's the first thing. Those need to be met to have that baseline of happiness. This is why, like I mentioned before, there are people in third world

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