The Happiness Is

If anyone asks "what is the purpose of the" life ", or that" the aim of the practice is to do what? ", I think I will borrow the answer of Germany Hit the Dalai Lama to attend, " the purpose of life is to go in search of happiness. " A true happiness, no obstacles and constraints.

There was answer to a disciple, Buddha said, "I just taught that each one thing only, that is the suffering and the path to the cessation of suffering." Or in other words, is the road to happiness.
Someone heard the master teach that on the way the school should cultivate their peace and disengaged as standard, then they sometimes disagree. We often said the practice is higher than that, must rise above all the problem of happiness and suffering. But I think, it does not mean that we have to reject it. Peace and happiness is also a factor of Nirvana! That is the route to happiness, I think should be made of the small happiness.

Made of small happiness.
Live in my life, to be happy, we must know the exposure, with his life. First of all, we can ask questions of his life is made of what? If your looking for, we will find that our life is made by the morning, noon, evening, those of you, who are love, by the way I went, by the raindrops, the sunshine ... that if we do not have to come into contact with the small, happy, how can one really livethat happy!

I remember once reading that: You are not able to enjoy life because you are not able to enjoy the things in life. The simple truth is that way. If we do not know, happy with what is occurring around us, then how can live happy? What is my life, in fact it is made of small ones.

On the way of life of us away, they're the flower, the gravel, the plants, the leaves of the four seasons ... we just saw exposed once on his way over. They are not important, but they are my life, get in contact with the living, with happiness are present around us.

You meant, happy is not what we need to break the, search, that happiness is what we just need to stop and recognize only. The issue here is not "discover" that is "uncover" happy. The Roman poet, Horace, has used the words "Carpe diem" means "Seize the day", catch today, as a recipe for a happy life. Today I see that word used a lot. Most are young people.
But I think we also need to review the attitude thing. As I thought, in fact we don't need capture one day off, we just need to tap the stop, and identify what are the only. Instead of "seize the day," we should stop in one day, or just a moment only, then it also has to be very happy.

Happiness is present, we simply stopped that episode exposed. The sun dawn, dusk, and a leaf, a haywire is also beautiful. Full moon sixteen beautiful, that a candle is also nice. There is something in this life is trivial. Of course it probably requires an elaborate, an insight. If we take a look back at what is occurring around us, we'll see what that does for the trivial, in fact they are charged with more variety, I think. Their lives have a lot of the or and beautiful. That sunny day, rainy day, have increased, there are friends, there are flower, the baby ...-the region this autumn. Nature is a picture of all colors. There are times I heard one say,
What is Autumn? Autumn is a season in which each leaf is a flower. Each leaf is a miracle, that each of us is also an event for this reason.
We are capable of knowing and loving, who also has the ability to live happily, anybody can make those around him down more suffering.

Take care of the fruit left happy.
On the way to school, convent we are often reminded that I should care for and nurture the seeds of peace and happiness in life. But here I want to say to the care the result left her happy. The fruit left happy is what normally is the present well-being and around us in this moment. Please preserve and take care of them. Because when we care for the result left in today, as we are well nourished and watered soaked the seeds of happiness in the future. In daily life, I practice nurturing them by proximity and exposure to the environment, nature and human beings, peace and happiness.

I remember in the physical sciences have a law is "always has many ways to damage a system activity, rather than to improve it." "There are always more ways to impair a working system than to improve it." I think that law applied very precisely to the physical phenomenon that is also true for our daily lives. A friendship, happy family, building up the very slow, need more time, but when it collapses down then so is fast. Sometimes just one sentence, a small Act, a misunderstanding. Happiness would also need to have nurtured and maintained by us. Please keep the people you hurt and understand oneself, family contacts, increasing the body of his beloved people ...

They are the result of the happiness that we have nurtured. This morning I walked out to see the leaves fall, the eyes are a result left happy. We also sat down to share with a friend, he's a left happy. I also have the student body increased peace and seclusion is a result of the happy ... Let's cherish and preserve them. Such is the result of the happiness in this life we are. We need to take care of them, because of the happiness he is nurturing and caring for ourselves.
The energy metabolism of suffering.You know, I think we can transform the suffering by exposure to his happiness. We can transform the life gauge by nurturing the life lost, rather than trying to dig and find out what his suffering. I think, before a person who is suffering, we can do nothing for him all suffering, but we can make them smile, serene moments are! When does the same with a friend walking meditation for artillery to watch as we're practicing arouse seeds of happiness for each other. When it comes to tu, sit with the teacher, with you as we are exposed to the elements of happiness in it. Where the light is never mixed with darkness! When the light is present, then the shadow will be absent. When pleasure is present then the suffering will be absent.

We do not think that we need to solve all the problems of his suffering, and then we may be in, watch and be happy. Happy is not necessarily totally cessation of suffering. Tntt meditation with thay, with rose, we feel steadily thanks to the refuge on the energy of the teacher and himself. Contact with nature, sitting drinking tea with a man of practical training as well as the happiness factor.

Learn about the Museum, we know that the seeds of peace ever also. When one is exposed to the elements of happiness, then we would also be happy. Hể know the coast we wake up, we'll be happy, though in this moment, we can have the suffering.

The difficulties of daily life but is still there, but the energy of peace would help to have a more clear perspective, to help us solve problems more easily. Happiness lies not in the absence of suffering that is in the ability to chemically contacted the miseries in life. Of course the reason it needs the practice.

Drive space.During the events of suffering in our lives, we often have the feeling that this is the only life the suffering and disruption. But sometimes we forget that, not only is the suffering that we are much more extensive. If looking for deep, one will see that real life is more normal ones, rather spoiled ones wear and loss.

Upon entering this room, if I ask you something? Are you going to say that I found the altar, the statue of religion, meditation pillow, Union Portugal, tables, chairs ... But can you see the space between the objects is not? Likewise, in life, we get busy, the awkward, and sometimes the suffering, but the difficulty is that there are about tranquillity and happiness! We are aware of what they are not, contact with the quiet period? Or we only see around the busy and difficult to resume in his life!

One could for example life as a soundtrack. In some tracks always must have the distance between two pitches. Lack of space, the music does not refer to a track, it is just a meaningless stretch audio only. A talented pianist, Artur Schnabel, for sharing this special day as guest of his flock, "I don't think she played better than any other musician, the musical notes in a song are more like each other, they are just so. But I know how to use the distance between two pitches. That art is in the budget. They make music better. "

In France, there are times that Trungpa Rinpoche took out a sheet of white paper, he drew up a letter "V" and ask the students, "you see?" People responded, "that's a bird flying!" Trungpa Rinpoche says, "not! Such is a wandering skies and a bird flying over! " Often we just look a little bird that forget sky wandering around it. Want to be happy we must expose the wandering space in her life. We are not just a pain, it's not just a hot person names, a loss, a person has the disease ... we are not just a little, a lowly people. .. we ever wider as well. This life never is also immense and wide open than I thought.

A Project For You
I think one of the reasons our miseries in life is because we want things to happen as you want. Whatever the combination of his discretion, we feel happy to see life, and vice versa is incorrect with discretion, then we see sorrow, pessimism. But the thing is when we really don't know what you want! Today, we'd like the point, and then tomorrow I want another. Even when what we thought is that she wants it, also not sure really what we want. When you get it, and then, the soul must still feel the deprivation, empty!

I think we need some time, sit down and ask yourself "is his way are going to be like?" In fact we ask but don't rush to answer. Important new questions, but the answer doesn't matter. In the Meditation has ideas about the projects, which are the issues that one cannot use deduction, reason to be, that one must know the cuddling, to live, to breathe with the same problem. The more important question to answer.

In fact, the way we went was the life that we're living now here! Suffering or happiness, which is the way we have chosen. We don't ever think that, because she wants happiness that it will choose the path of happiness! I usually get it made a case for himself. The Foundation of it go? And don't reply by reason that is in your heart. And when we discover that their way of life is in this moment, then we will not do anything other than living practice so happy.

Happiness is an art.

Practice is an art rather than a technique. The practice was also to be his life, rather than just a way for us to deal with the difficulties, or escape from suffering. In life, often we do also have a purpose, to progress to something. For example, when we scan the House is to have a clean house, you're washing dishes is to have a clean Cup. We have a purpose for each of your jobs.

But we have to scan the House clean, but it will also mess up, and tomorrow we will scan again. The dishwasher also. If we practice with the intention of making the fast finishing, for then, we be born more frustration, negativity only. There is a Western physician who tells when to Thailand comes at a monastery in the forest, he was handed over to the master sweep leaves on a small path leading into the Hall. Because the monastery is located in the middle of the forest should the leaves drop year-round. He tells the story, just scan is half way, when looking back on the square has just finished scanning, the leaves were falling down covered with.

But he keeps continuing to do his job. Later on he was aware that the work we do by itself is sufficient. In every job we do is a public practice: how to actually be present in the work you are doing. We do is to have to, there is peace in yourself, that is the main goal. What about the other ones just append only.

In the story the little Prince (The Little Prince), when he was the little Prince travels to a planet it is very small, on this planet only has a head lamp and lamp lit path only. Worker's duties is to burn the lights up at night and turn off the lights when it is dawn. But because the planet is too small so when the Sun was just rising, you start diving, Dawn was just over, also starting at sunset. So he lit up lights out any divers, then just seconds later turn off. And he continued to work until then. To hear him tell the homes workers work bored her, the little Prince says, "Why don't you think, when he lit the lamp lighted up as he added a star shining again on this space, or create a beautiful flower buds for life!"

People often ask this life mean? But as I thought then perhaps this life itself doesn't mean anything, that would give it a meaning by our own life.

The Foundation Of Happiness.
Buddha was a human being very practical, as well as his teachings. When people ask what the Buddha, He said, "I teach, the suffering and the cessation of suffering" when asked about the problems related to cosmology, theology, mysticism ... His silence did not respond. The Buddha says that He taught only one single flavor is in and freed. When people ask who is the Buddha, he does not express himself as God, gods, superheroes, which says He is only one person only, an awakening, a man happy. The Buddha reminds us that he taught in an open hand. He handed out TV shows us what he knows, not concealing something.

So that the path of cultivation is also subject to the fact that the Buddha's teachings. It must have a metabolism that matters, the suffering of his own. We should study and practice and experience in one's own circumstances. Let's a slideshow about the difficulties and miseries of yourself, see the practice could do was to convert them. The practice must be directly related to a problem, a line of attack. Than zero, all just theory alone.

When we see that, the practice can bring practical benefits, it will be a pleasure. On the cultivation path, we need to nurture happy, we need to have a fun, because without happiness is hard to take long at all. The internship should be a factor is the effort. Effort is often understood as a trying and effort. But it also means that the preferences, the fervent wish to make of it. Because when we like something, we'll do that never knew boring, tirelessly. Like a lot of people ask, how did you have time to write, and then write a book, go on contemplation, attending the retreat ... While we are busy and have to go to work every day?

But in fact we see people ask questions, they also have a lot of work to do, work, busy family, they also have many other projects ... but we also wonder how they lot time!
I think the problem is that if one likes to do, I won't see it that hard, is suffering, is to take their time. Every step we take is a small happy school convent. So, the oil while there long, but we still feel disengaged that go.

Happiness and the media
Now suppose that if I ask you, "why did you want to be happy?" You will reply back! In fact, the question that how you answer correctly! At the happy character itself is really true, is saved, is enough out where it needs to be something else for refuge.

But if I ask "why did you buy a new car, or why she back-vacation-summer place?" Then we could easily answer. "Because I want to live more comfortably, I want to be happy, to be happy." I made the ones it is because I thought it would bring me happiness. " On one side is the means and dzogchen.
But very often in life, we usually put a lot of effort into the means by which to forget to save its wings. Now let's look back at what are, and are aware that our objective is to bring us happiness. And let's be honest and answer for themselves: they have really brought me a happy?

Much as I confused the media as well as save points! The aim of the friends is to bring it to the other side, and it no longer had a use for it.
And in his talk today we want to present to you on one of the lifestyle of happiness, that happiness is a bliss has a strong personality and disengaged, not sticky, and happiness is in the words of new Buddha is actually a happy feet. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.MHDT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUNS=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.22/10/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).