How to live with Happiness

Abstract

Generally, we were born and we always confront with either happiness or suffering. We have no choice to select what we want to be. It likes we were a Ping-Pong ball which be hit back and forth all the time. We believe that our lives depend on the changing situations or changing world. If we are lucky enough and live in the good place, surrounding with good people, of cause we are happy. However, if we live in bad place and surrounding bad people, we’ll certainly meet the distress. Our happiness or the distress, in Buddhism, we are Buddhists; we don’t believe that because the happiness and distress it doesn’t depend on the situations or the changing world but it is really depending on the contact of ours. Contacting by seeing or hearing, one may feel happy; other may not. Why? Because in the second case, he is independent or free. Nothing forces him to do. His mind is chief, it foreruns all mental conditions. So his happiness does not depend on sensual conditions-Samissook. Samissook is the happiness which depend on environment or natural conditions like a grass hopper which is spun by the player. On the other hand, happiness comes from making merit is called Nirassookhappiness independent of material things. Hence happiness which come from making merit, whenever we do, we get it directly and entirely. On this occasion, may the Triple Gem and all your goodness bless all of you having true happiness and living together peacefully and gloriously.