HAPPINESS

buddha.dhamma.kehidupan * HAPPINESS *

By: Y.M Bhikkhu Sri Pannyavaro Mahathera

The poor eat simple food is delicious. However, for a rich person, eating a new delicacy feels good.
If we examine, in the simple food and the fancy food, is there happiness there? There is no! Pleasure and pleasure in the mind.

If the rich we give simple food become disappointed and annoyed.
Is it upset and annoyed to be in the food? It was not there! Disappointed and annoyed inside. Happiness is within ourselves. We do not have to look far. Happiness comes within us, not outside.

Any religion can not reward happiness.
All religions can only show how, we ourselves have to do it. It all depends on us. Who makes you happy? We alone.

Who makes unhappy? We ourselves too.
Happiness depends on the changes we are making within ourselves.
If we dare to change our attitude of life, destroy the greed, the ego; not only to guard the prestige, but really want to destroy the lust of evil, then happiness will appear within us. And if happiness has arisen within, we will be happy all the time.

Try contemplating, happiness is within us, nothing in food, no in clothing, no in a good house, nor in a car changing.

Whatever we face, can make us suffer, because it is our suffering that makes it ourselves. On the contrary, we can also not make suffering.

So if facing anything, whether it's the affairs of husband, wife, maid, job, neighbors, hot, cold, profit, loss; make it not to be miserable, for we alone can make suffering or not into suffering.

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