Chinese Curses And Happiness

don doggett · 13 Apr 2007, 18:42 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:42:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Chinese Curses And Happiness
In-Reply-To: <3447.67.142.130.12.1176486027.squirrel at brunians.org>
Message-ID: <38319.62844.qm at web32402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- brunians at brunians.org wrote:

> 
> The full curse is 'May you live in interesting times
> and come to the
> attention of influential people.'

Ah. Thank you, Josh. That's a nasty curse in any
culture.

> The Stoic philosophy (and also Buddhism,
> coincidentally or not) both teach
> how to be happy no matter how interesting your times
> or personal
> situation.
> 

I was under the impression that happiness was
inconsequential to both philosophies. Rather they
teach one to endure such times and situations with
equanimity.

But I digress as well.

Don

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