仏教の先生の書かれた日本語文の英訳をさせていただいています。Buddhism’sTheory of Happinessという名前でYouTubeやSNSで仏教の布教活動をされています。その翻訳した文の一部を定期的にここでシェアさせていただきます。
Many people including Buddhists say that the path to happiness is to free ourselves from attachments to wealth, status and etc., and not to be swayed by likes and dislikes.
Callicles, an ancient Athenian political philosopher who is an advocate of embracing desires, mocked such people by saying, "If being free of desires is the greatest happiness, then stones and corpses must be the happiest."
Indeed, stones are attached to nothing, and corpses have no likes or dislikes. Callicles' observation is sharp.