What are the com1eccions between the quest for happiness as Gilbert describes it and rhe cultivation of wisdom that Robert Thunnan ourljnes? Is the Buddhist experience of nothingness a way of freeing...

What are the com1eccions between the quest for happiness as Gilbert describes it and rhe cultivation of wisdom that Robert Thunnan ourljnes? Is the Buddhist experience of nothingness a way of freeing people f rom the hot states in which we overestimate our own capacity to find satisfaction through changes in external conilitions? Or is tbe notion of \-visdom itself an example of the kind of unconscious fact cooking Gilbert describes, which generates happiness only if it feels "like a discovery and not like a snow job"? ls there a way to determine, finally, if another person is happy or wise? Ca11 one even know oneself with certainty i.f Gilbert is con·cct? How about if Thurman i.s con-ecc?