Desire; Frustration; Happiness; Gautama; Bahm, Archie J.
摘要
The philosophy of Gautama is summarized in a single psychological principle，so obvious that all who hear it intuitively assent to it：desire for what will not be attained ends in frustration; to avoid frustration，avoid desiring what will not be attained. He defeated all opponents in argument by turning their problems into his. The chief problem of life is happiness, or absence of frustration. Nirvana is enjoying what is as it is. Only when one is willing to be as unhappy as he is does he become as happy as he can be. But his followers, who became orthodox Buddhists, advocated complete extinction of desire.
