Happiness

happiness is to be found in controlling the mind, not circumstances.’

Happiness does not come automatically

we can never be truly happy if we dissociate ourselves from the happiness of others.

The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame. . . . Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air. . . . The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragically. He goes on his merry way, his heart light, his soul at peace, without a goal,

true happiness: clarity of mind, loving-kindness, the gradual withering of negative emotions, and the disappearance of selfish whimsy.

Ignorance, in the Buddhist lexicon, is an inability to recognize the true nature of things and of the law of cause and effect that governs happiness and suffering

Sukha is the state of lasting well-being that manifests itself when we have freed ourselves of mental blindness and afflictive emotions

phenomena exist in an essentially interdependent mode and have no autonomous and enduring existence.

like well-being, is essentially an interior state. Understanding that is the key prerequisite to a life worth living

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being.