True happiness is not to gain more, but to dare to "let go" of what is not.
True happiness is not to gain more, but to dare to "let go" of what is not.
Many spend their entire lives chasing happiness...
I thought if I had more money, I'd be happy.
If there's a bigger house, there's happiness.
If there is an understanding lover, there will be happiness.
If you have a higher position, you will be happy.
If more people accepted, life would be perfect.
So we ran...
Running by success
Running by fame
Run after admiration
Run after what is thought to fill the heart.
But the more it gets, the more it feels like something's missing.
When you get one thing, you want another.
When fulfilled, he began to fear loss.
When there is much, it must be tired of treatment.
Finally, I never found true happiness.
The Buddha pointed out the profound truth that
Suffering is not caused by having little.
But caused by "adherence."
We suffer because we think things are ours.
Our money.
Our House
Our duty
Our reputation.
Our lover.
Even this body...It's still called "ourselves."
When the word "ours"
The fear was immediate.
Afraid of losing
All scared
Afraid of changing
Afraid of being snatched
Afraid not the same
The more seized, the heavier the heart.
Notice someone carrying a heavy bag dozens of kilometers away.
He's not tired because of the road.
But tired because of the weight carrying
Life is the same.
Many times, we do not suffer because of the world.
But suffering because of what the heart bears
Carrying an irretrievable past
Carrying the disappointment that has passed.
Carrying other people's words
Carrying expectations
Carrying anger
Carrying resentment
Carrying the feeling that you must be perfect.
All of this gradually makes the heart harder every day.
Both many things...No need to carry at all
Most people often think that "letting go" is giving up.
But literally,
Letting go is not escaping the problem.
But is to put something that doesn't need to be held.
Like someone holding a hot rock.
If you don't let go, your hands will inflate.
The problem isn't with the rocks.
But we still won't let go
Many people still hold the insults of people ten years ago.
Holding past mistakes
Hold regret
Hold other people's expectations.
Hold that idea.
"I have to be good."
"I have to win."
"I have to be better than everyone else."
Although these thoughts are burning every day
The Buddha then taught that
Knowing what causes suffering,
Leave the cause of suffering.
Doesn't mean the world
Each attachment in the world
We can still work
Can still love family
Can also create success
But do without taking the heart to tie the result
When successful, don't get lost.
When disappointed, not broken.
When you get it, you know, use it.
When broken, you know the paste.
This is freedom of mind.
Many people mistake that.
If you let go, there will be no love.
The opposite truth.
People who let go are more beautiful.
Because he doesn't love to possess.
But love to keep
Do not force anyone to be willing
Not seized that others must make us happy.
When love wisely
Even if one day had to leave
The heart is still full of compassion.
Not resentment.
True happiness is therefore not caused by accumulation.
But caused by the reduction.
Reduce craving
Reduce comparison
Reduce ego
Lower expectations
Reduce overcoming
Reduce the seizure, "This is me."
The lower the heart, the lighter.
The lighter, the calmer.
The calmer you are, the more you see the truth of life.
Then will discover that...
We don't need many new things.
We just have to dare to let go of the old things that are stalled.
Sometimes...
Releasing anger makes you happier than overcoming it.
Releasing jealousy is more relieved than competition.
Releasing other people's words makes life free.
Releasing the past brings the present back to life.
Releasing the ego makes compassion grow.
Every time we release something that's not
We'll be left with space for what really matters.
Left a conscious space.
Left space to wisdom
Left space to mercy.
And left a space to calm.
Finally...
True happiness is not the destination of pursuit.
But in the second the heart stops carrying unnecessary things.
When the heart does not seize
The heart is not heavy.
When the heart is not heavy
The heart is free.
And when the heart is free...
We will discover that the happiness of our whole lives is never far away.
It is in the mind that consciously "lets go" and exists with the present.