In Buddhism, desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering.
In Buddhism, desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering.
Both title and comic are toxic bullshit that ignores the material reality of most peoples lives, akin to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons people aren’t happy, most of which far beyond their control, the idea that wanting to be happy is to blame, rather than those reasons, is gaslighting (no, no, it isn’t the systemic issues you’re facing that are to blame, it’s your unwillingness to grin and bear it!).
I fear that your understanding of karma comes from the massively bastardised western idea of it. Karma in buddhism is very far from “good things happen to good people.”