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Episode 133 - A Simple Happiness Practice
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Understanding that suffering and happiness arise from our mind, rather than external circumstances, we can try to lift our mind back up to happiness as a spiritual practice. I suggest a one-day practice as an experiment. For this mindfulness practice, try for an entire day to keep lifting your mind back up when it becomes tense or unhappy. Utilize thoughts of gratitude or simply your determination to be peaceful and happy all day. I do this practice and find it really works! Just know that sometimes turning your mind back to happiness is easy, like turning a motorbike, but sometimes it is like turning a cruise ship around--it takes a long time.
Verse 302: It is hard to become a bhikkhu;
it is hard to be happy in the practice of a bhikkhu.
The hard life of a householder is painful;
to live with those of a different temperament is painful.
A traveller in samsara is continually subject to dukkha;
therefore, do not be a traveller in samsara;
do not be the one to be subject to dukkha again and again.
-Buddha, The Dhammapada
References and Links
Buddha.The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Translated by Daw Mya Tin, M.A. Edited by Editorial Committee, Burma Tipitaka Association Rangoon, Burma, 1986 (Online). Courtesy of Nibbana.com
Link: https://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/dhp/verseload.php?verse=302
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Manage episode 323486781 series 2496605
Understanding that suffering and happiness arise from our mind, rather than external circumstances, we can try to lift our mind back up to happiness as a spiritual practice. I suggest a one-day practice as an experiment. For this mindfulness practice, try for an entire day to keep lifting your mind back up when it becomes tense or unhappy. Utilize thoughts of gratitude or simply your determination to be peaceful and happy all day. I do this practice and find it really works! Just know that sometimes turning your mind back to happiness is easy, like turning a motorbike, but sometimes it is like turning a cruise ship around--it takes a long time.
Verse 302: It is hard to become a bhikkhu;
it is hard to be happy in the practice of a bhikkhu.
The hard life of a householder is painful;
to live with those of a different temperament is painful.
A traveller in samsara is continually subject to dukkha;
therefore, do not be a traveller in samsara;
do not be the one to be subject to dukkha again and again.
-Buddha, The Dhammapada
References and Links
Buddha.The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Translated by Daw Mya Tin, M.A. Edited by Editorial Committee, Burma Tipitaka Association Rangoon, Burma, 1986 (Online). Courtesy of Nibbana.com
Link: https://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/dhp/verseload.php?verse=302
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