Happiness isn’t a warm gun and it’s not created from money, nor is based on romantic luck. Happiness, it seems, is quite often totally ersatz. Fake. Pretend. Illusory. It is not a thing to be found, it’s a thing we create in our brains. According to Dan Gilbert (TED TALKS), our advanced pre-frontal cortex can synthesize happiness. So, as it turns out, we’re just as happy when our brains make us “happy” after not getting what we want in life, than when we actually get what we want. What does this mean in regard to reincarnation? Does this particular happiness theory water down the effect of karma a bit? If we are just as happy when we are playing out bad karma as we are when we are basking in good karma, what’s the point?

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