Why do so few people seem truly happy?

กระทู้สนทนา

ศาสนาพุทธ หนังสือ ภาษาอังกฤษ สุขภาพจิต พระฌอน ชยสาโร

The Buddha taught that all living beings are born with an instinctive wish
to avoid suffering and to experience happiness. The problem is that lacking wisdom,
we both continually act in ways that create the conditions for suffering,
and also neglect acting in ways that create the conditions for happiness.
We seek happiness in things that inevitably disappoint us;
we avoid things that would lead to our long-term welfare.
In short, we are our own worst enemy.

Few people have seriously considered the nature of happiness.
Of those who have, even fewer commit themselves to systematically
eradicating its inner obstacles and cultivating its supporting conditions.
It is not surprising that so few people are truly happy.

One of the basic premises of Buddhism is that the more clearly we see the nature of things,
the less we suffer, and the happier we become. Indeed, the Buddha referred to Nibbāna,
the goal of Buddhist practice, as ‘the supreme happiness’. Worldly happiness is fleeting and unreliable.
The happiness of a cultivated mind is a lasting refuge.

from without and within by Ajahn Jayasaro

https://th-th.facebook.com/jayasaro.panyaprateep.org

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