Fortunately, you can come in two ways. The first way - outside. Buying a better house, better clothes, more pleasant friends, we may in some degree to find happiness and satisfaction. The second path - the path of spiritual development, and it allows you to achieve happiness within. However, these two approaches are not equivalent. External happiness without inner can not last long. If life is drawn in black paint you if your heart something is missing, you will not be happy, no matter how luxurious or herself surrounded. But if you have achieved inner peace, you can find happiness even in the toughest conditions. Material well-being in itself can sometimes help to solve a problem, but instead it creates another. For example, a person can be rich, well educated, hold high positions in society, but the happiness evades his side, and now he begins to take a sedative and alcohol abuse. Him all the time something is missing, it's still something is not satisfied and finds refuge in drugs or in a bottle. On the other hand, there are people who do not have so much money to worry for them - and they enjoy the tranquility. Poor in material terms, such people are still content and happy. That's what the right mindset. Material wealth alone can never fully solve the problem of human suffering. - Dalai Lama XIV. Two paths to happiness. / / Buddhist Practice: The Way to a life full of meaning. = How to Practice.
Fortunately, you can come in two ways. The first way - outside. Buying a better house, better clothes, more pleasant friends, we may in some degree to find happiness and satisfaction. The second path - the path of spiritual development, and it allows you to achieve happiness within. However, these two approaches are not equivalent. External happiness without inner can not last long. If life is drawn in black paint you if your heart something is missing, you will not be happy, no matter how luxurious or herself surrounded. But if you have achieved inner peace, you can find happiness even in the toughest conditions. Material well-being in itself can sometimes help to solve a problem, but instead it creates another. For example, a person can be rich, well educated, hold high positions in society, but the happiness evades his side, and now he begins to take a sedative and alcohol abuse. Him all the time something is missing, it's still something is not satisfied and finds refuge in drugs or in a bottle. On the other hand, there are people who do not have so much money to worry for them - and they enjoy the tranquility. Poor in material terms, such people are still content and happy. That's what the right mindset. Material wealth alone can never fully solve the problem of human suffering.
- Dalai Lama XIV. Two paths to happiness. / / Buddhist Practice: The Way to a life full of meaning. = How to Practice.