Happiness

Happiness is having a quiet mind.

Happiness is being completely mindful, so mindful that there is no thought, no sense of ‘I’!

This happiness comes when all thoughts of past and future do not occur. No ‘I’, no tomorrow, no plan. In that time that moment there isn’t an ‘I’ experiencing that bliss. There is only the happiness.

Real happiness has no reason.

When you are really happy you cannot say ‘I am happy because….’ If you try to be happy, you are sure to fail. Real happiness comes without being invited.

‘Why am I so happy?’

See, when you are happy you want to know why you are happy. That’s the way the mind is. Always wanting to know why.

Keep watching how the mind creates stories and pulls you in.

You don’t look at the story, you look at that function of the mind. You don’t look at the concept, the story, look at how the mind creates the story, and not you.

The mind is one thing the story is another thing.

The mind makes a story and serves it to you. You buy it.

By watching that, you will be able to see how the mind creates its own unhappiness.

Look how things affect the mind; desirable things rob it from its mindfulness, calm and wisdom and turn it into a slave of greed.

Look how delusion (the stories created by the mind) drag it away from paramattha (realities).

Watch how anger arises and takes over it and controls it unwisely even dangerously.

You can see the anger arising, but can you see the cause of that anger? Can you see that it is Pride? It is because of that pride that this ‘how can you do or say that to me’ arises.

This is very important. This is how one really learns.

Learning from the defilement, anger, frustration, lust, envy, pride, jealousy, desire, greed, all that. Watching them can teach us so much about the Dhamma, and ourselves and by watching them we can overcome them.

Protect the mind and be patient, it’s all just passing by.

Seeing images in the mind, thinking, remembering, and imagining, planning, are not paramattha (reality). All these different minds arising in the mind are not paramattha. The knowing of it is.