A friend's post...

[ca_katarina]

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

Comments

[coen]

Any thoughts? Yes

[coen]

I realize the above sounds very arrogant and rude.
I apologize for that.

I have thought it over, but I still feel this way about it. I am still sorry if I offend anyone, but I still feel this way.

[ca_katarina]

I apologize for taking so long to respond to this.

In my case, at least, no offense taken.

I wonder how much of this is semantics? I think we can --
and life is better when we do -- act in such ways as to
contribute to others' happiness. However, it is the
case that it is nigh impossible to make anyone feel
anything... And attempting to do so can lead to ...
problems...

It is a subtle distinction, perhaps.

I think your simple = untrue is a bit ... simple.
You felt free to "simply" say that

If we stop trying to make people happy, we might as well stop living.
Or become buddhists, which is about the same thing.That is pretty simplistic, yes? Yet there is a piece of truth

[coen]

Yes, my comment was very simplistic and blunt. That is true. And I pretty much did the same thing I accused the other guy of. Also very true

[ca_katarina]

That all sounds about right to me.

K.