Roundtable At Stanford University
In the News: “On Friday, Oct. 18, the 2013 Stanford Roundtable, “Are You Happy Now?” convened five experts to discuss what happiness is and why many Americans are unhappy. The panelists also discussed simple, synergistic strategies that people can employ to promote long-lasting, meaningful happiness. …
“In a recent study that ranked 50 countries by overall happiness, the United States slotted in at 23rd. This finding might seem incongruous with the American dream: “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“But that rhetoric – the constant pursuit of happiness – might be what’s holding the United States back.
“Katie Couric, journalist and host of the daytime talk show Katie, moderated the discussion.” Source: Stanford News
Around 4600 people participated in the roundtable physically and around 700 virtually via the Internet.
The discussion showed that, in fact, no one knows what happiness is. People are not clear how to achieve it. Depression is increasing on a global scale and with the onset at younger ages, but no one knows what to do with it.
The Bnei Baruch San Francisco group participated in the roundtable.
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“The discussion showed that, in fact, no one knows what happiness is. People are not clear how to achieve it. Depression is increasing on a global scale and with the onset at younger ages, but no one knows what to do with it.
The Bnei Baruch San Francisco group participated in the roundtable.”
These are clearly left line results. Would we have had right line results if the San Francisco group had not “participated”? Would the discussion have shown, that in fact as a result of this round table, everyone would have come to know what happiness is, and wouldn’t the influence of a connected group that gives the light of bestowal through unity be able to give a clear path to achieving happiness, so that depression on a global scale would dramatically decrease because all would know what to do with it? Pulling the rug out to show the need for the rug is a strategy of suffering.
Ein Od Milvado
This maybe a different perspective than many as it kinda takes people out of the picture for a minute but then we need to put them back in it of course… but if we use the thought that is used in the article “…no one knows what happiness is” this sounds like similar statements regarding electricity. For example, ask what electricity is and the reply usually comes back something like “one cannot really define it but you can see its effect.”
Then man learned to build power plants to generate this stuff that people can’t seem to put a finger on what it really is, all they know is that things need it to go round and round and it makes a lot of people happy and it helps dispel “darkness” which can be equated to depression.
In the same manner, i perceive that happiness is a phenomena, an energy, a force where atoms are sharing a part of themselves with another, for the purpose of serving a higher purpose, and in many instances, it serves to reveal the light. It’s as if these atoms have a mind of their own… and they do.
So I perceive that to help others get a grasp on what happiness is, to understand its effects, would be to consider giving it properties and treat it like a phenomena. Happiness can produce this and does this and that with these conditions. It has a together component where you typically cannot be happy when one is isolated or the individual is not allowed to do what is inside of them… and so on.