{"id":39329,"date":"2024-12-01T23:49:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/4-discussion-post-the-elusive-nature-of-happiness-and-the-presence-of-suffering\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T23:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:49:28","slug":"4-discussion-post-the-elusive-nature-of-happiness-and-the-presence-of-suffering","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/4-discussion-post-the-elusive-nature-of-happiness-and-the-presence-of-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"# 4 Discussion Post: The Elusive Nature of Happiness and the Presence of Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Howdy! There are two aspects to this discussion post.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;First, answer the following question:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(1) Why is human happiness ever so elusive suffering and human problems are ever so effortlessly and naturally present according to Buddha, Confucious, and Lao Tzu?&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">After<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em>exploring their answers, (2) share your own reflection of what you think of their answers (1000<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">words minimal, no maximum word count<\/strong>). Be sure to justify any truth-claims you make. As always, be sensitive to context.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">To help orient you to this question, there are key ideas to understand.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(52, 54, 61);\">(1)&nbsp;<\/span>Buddha and Buddhism:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tilBs32zN7I<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(2)<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Confucius and Confucianism:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LEmN6MnUVDI<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(3)<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Lao Tzu and Daoism (Taoism):&nbsp;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dFb7Hxva5rg<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">(4)<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">The Way of Wu-Wei:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NvZi7ZV-SWI<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy! There are two aspects to this discussion post. &nbsp;First, answer the following question: (1) Why is human happiness ever so elusive suffering and human problems are ever so effortlessly and naturally present according to Buddha, Confucious, and Lao Tzu?&nbsp; After&nbsp;exploring their answers, (2) share your own reflection of what you think of their answers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[11],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/39329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/39329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=39329"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=39329"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=39329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}