Will we be happy in 2009? – two views of happiness

Is happiness a matter of knowing – or is ignorance bliss?  

Are we happy through luck or genes or being good, truthful and celebrating beauty?  

Here are two views;

The second is a Buddhist view;

 

Part 2 of the Buddhist view;

 

 

Happy new year -and may we all learn, without too much pain, the means to true happiness – for ourselves and the human family as a whole.