A friend's post...
He gave me permission to post it in my journal.
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Interesting thought.
I was watching a documentary about the head chef at Tasajara Community Center..he wrote the Tassajara Bread Book. He is a Buddhist monk and one of the lessons he repeated was..
You cannot make anyone happy.
If you try and make someone happy
it will only lead to pain and despair.
I thought about it for a bit, it was a shockingly simple statement, and not one I havn't really heard before, but the context and the simplicity were deafening. I was kind of shook up by it, because it's something that we know but seem to try and get around in our lives.
Any thoughts?