By Myokei Caine-Barrett, Rebecca Li, Kakumyo Lowe-Charde — 2018
Instead of believing we are such great people for helping others, we can thank all beings for allowing us to be of service.
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Question: Buddhist teachers, including the Dalai Lama, often speak of happiness as a goal (if not the goal) of Buddhist practice. I don’t begrudge anyone happiness, but making it so central to spiritual life feels self-serving. Am I misunderstanding what’s meant by “happiness”?
It’s surprisingly easy to achieve lasting happiness — we just have to understand our own basic nature. The hard part, says Mingyur Rinpoche, is getting over our bad habit of seeking happiness in transient experiences.
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For most of my life, I clung to the belief that I wasn’t happy because I “just wasn’t wired that way.”