Just a short entry today, from the Buddha – something that made me think….
A man once told the Buddha, ‘I want happiness’.
The Buddha saidremove the ‘I’ … that’s ego,now remove the ‘want’ … that’s desire,now all you are left with is, Happiness.
There are many things we can do, small and large, to feel happier in our lives – I have already covered several of them in this blog.
But, ultimately, it is how we choose to think, and how we choose to act that creates or removes happiness from our lives.
When something bad happens, if you can’t change it then change the way you think about it.
I think the Buddha, in the above quote, is suggesting that to feel happier we need to:
– think less about ourselves,
– and less about what we want but don’t have.
That’s bound to make us happier, isn’t it?
What do you think? – share your thoughts on this quote and happiness – it’s great to hear your experiences, and I feature some of them in my newsletters.
Leave a comment here, or email me: Mary@Coach-me-Happy.co.uk
PS if you are interested in reading more on happiness from a Buddhist perspective, you might like to read the book I link to below:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Happiness-Handbook-Living/dp/0340750154/
“The Art of Happiness” by the Dalai Lama – click the link above to read about it on Amazon.