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,

Just as it is the mind that translates suffering into unhappiness, it is the mind’s responsibility to master its perception thereof.

very clever and tireless our consumer society is at inventing countless bogus pleasures, laboriously hyped stimulants designed to keep us in a state of emotional tension capable of triggering a kind of mental anesthesia.

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.