5 Thoughtful Teachings From The Dalai Lama

Society teaches us that happiness is something that is difficult to achieve and that we only experience it for a short time when we achieve it. Because of the way we understand life and our happiness, we act apathetically while waiting for it to arrive by itself because we think we cannot pick it up ourselves.

One of the most complicated parts of teaching ” how to be happy ” is that they do not teach us to recognize happiness and value it for what it is, which means that we start and continue in a continuous circle that always leads to we become frustrated, without achieving inner, existential fulfillment.

Thanks to positive psychology and ancient philosophies, such as Buddhism, we can think of happiness as something present and very possible in our lives; a necessary feeling in people’s lives.

Today we will explain the teachings of a person who is a role model on the path to true happiness – the Dalai Lama.

The fundamental purpose of our lives is to seek and achieve happiness.

You learn to agree that people often consider it more important to increase their material wealth than their spiritual depth. It seems that the first is urgent and that the second has to do with small pieces of leisure that can be postponed and in the end often ignored.

If we base our lives in this way of seeing and understanding the world, it is easy to accumulate riches in the search for a material security that will never be a real security. We can always imagine another hypothetical situation when we need more money.

Despite this , our minds can be opened by reading this quote, which makes it possible to understand our existence and our goals in a way that is completely different from our present, or what “they have told us to have” until now.

If you want to achieve happiness for yourself and those around you, you must exercise compassion.

One of the most complicated rules to apply in a person’s life is compassion. Being a fellow human being means that you do everything in your power to eliminate the suffering of others, and thus your own.

Compassion consists of understanding, acceptance and change. If we develop a compassionate attitude towards others and ourselves, we will achieve happiness.

When we experience something tragic, we can follow two paths: lose hope and practice self-destructive habits or use the challenge to find inner strength.

We often meet people who have a tendency to feel sorry for themselves because their lives are full of failures, constant remorse or lack of opportunities. Because of this, they do not notice that they are continually clinging to the past and using it as an excuse to stop and not move into the present and the future. Of course, everyone has different life experiences than others, but if we get stuck in the past and spend our days thinking about what we did or could have done, we are no longer aware of the here and now.

This here and now is absolutely necessary to continue to improve ourselves in every way; to continue to grow and thereby achieve happiness.

If your mind is calm and balanced, your ability to enjoy a happy life will be greater.

When we are rulers over our minds, we can be happy. Why? All thoughts and fears that prevent us from performing actions that allow us to “touch” and experience happiness come from our mind. If we can keep our minds calm, we can invest our energy without limitations to find the best solution and know how to handle our internal conflicts, to overcome them in a safe and sensible way.

If we live with a mind that we do not know how to control, we will continue to cause problems and build obstacles that do not exist, and this makes it harder to achieve happiness.

Most of our problems come from affection for things we mistakenly believe are permanent.

Separation is one of the most basic and important principles of Buddhism. Of course, much of our suffering comes from the affection we have for certain material things, situations, or people. We believe that we will suffer and not feel good if we lose these things. In Buddhism, separation means that one does not feel this need created by an emotional bond and that one is aware that our happiness does not depend on affection from other people or the number of things we have in our possession.

Keeping up with the flow is one of the most important tools for fulfillment, and you can start using this when you feel that it becomes difficult to “let go” of certain situations.