Tuesday 19 August 2014
FAME, WEALTH, SUCCESS ARE NO MEASURE OF HAPPINESS
Every time a celebrity like Robin Williams takes his or her life (I think of Philip Seymour Hoffman, too, a recent example) we are reminded of this. Most of us spend our entire lives chasing these so called 'desirables' or feeling terrible because we don't have them. Here is the most glaring example of how false this thought is. Some blame his suicide on alcohol or drug abuse, but what leads to this is rarely questioned. Yeah, sure, creativity and madness, creativity and drugs are connected in some deep and pernicious way. But unless we see how our ambitions and desires and cravings can lead us astray, that their fulfillment has nothing at all to do peace and love and connection, quite the opposite, we will continue to put ourselves and our life in harm's way.
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Buddha nailed it 2500 years ago: Desires are unending...and the source of human suffering. I learned that Robin's suicide may have also been linked to his diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and perhaps not wanting to go down that path. We can never know....and just like we project our desires for success onto the popular stars, we also project our failures...they pay the price for being in the lime-light and all the rewards, sometimes don't fill the void, the uncertainty, the inadequacies....Nu? who knows....all we can do is continue to live our examined lives....what fun!
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