The Search for Happiness

 

The Search for Happiness

 

If they believe happiness is in the sea, they go to the sea.

If they believe it is in the mountains, they go to the mountains.

If they believe it is in the shopping malls, they go on a shopping spree.

If they believe it is about being rich, they devote their lives to making money.

Or, if they think it lies in being famous, they seek every means and measure to fight their way to fame.

 

What all these people find in common is that all the seas, money and fame in the world cannot help them when they are heart-broken, depressed or in pain. That even a mountain of wealth and possessions cannot fill the emptiness in their hearts. In facts, such things produce short-lived pleasure and inevitably stress and exhaustion.

The search for the most reliable source of happiness might be closer than you think. Since time immemorial, people of all ages, races and faiths have one thing in common – the search for happiness.

Fortunately, all human beings are blessed with the ability to produce self-sustaining happiness – the kind of happiness that only they themselves can produce and is completely independent of personal circumstances and external factors. That kind of happiness lies within them, and can be achieved through meditation.

 

Inspiration words from Phra Dhepyanmahamuni (Luangpor Dhammajayo), Abbot of Dhammakaya Temple.

From The little book of happiness, Dhammakaya foundation