Happiness

Ultimately what guides human experience? Fundamentally there is a quality that we all value in life- and it is such an absolute good that it i almost moral in nature- It is Happiness.

The Buddha said:

I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.


What is this in some sense but that he taught happiness.

What makes us strive for heaven? and how is heaven measured? Happiness.

Happiness is what makes life worthwhile.

More thoughts on happiness:

Happiness: Buddha Quotes
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Happiness: Buddha Quotes
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Mediation to become happy:

Imagine your buddha-nature – the essential purity of your own awareness – symbolically as a pearl of radiant white light at your heart. And all of that incandescent, radiant white light is of the nature of joy, of loving-kindness that has always been within you. Then, with each in-breath, imagine drawing from this inexhaustible source of light at your heart, as if you were drawing water from a well. With each in-breath imagine drawing out the light from this source, a source that can be so easily obscured while we attend to others things, as our priorities become lost in distractions. With each in-breath imagine drawing this light out, like drawing from a deep well. Then with each out-breath imagine this light of well-being, this light of loving-kindness, suffusing every part of your body, your mind, your spirit. Then think: May I experience genuine happiness and the very source of happiness itself. May I be well and happy.

Genuine Happiness: Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment, B. Alan Wallace

Instruction for happiness:

Instructions for Happiness
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.



Religion is about making people happy. It is about long term successful happiness.

I am thinking now in the mdist of beign really miserable- should I just work to be happy and fulfill my religion? IS then religion just instructions on how to do that?

All religious instruction aims merely at creating happiness.


The Dalai Lama

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“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.” — The Dalai Lama

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http://abundance-blog.marelisa-online.com/2009/03/09/happiness-tips-from-the-dalai-lama/