Happiness, from a Buddhist perspective

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Happiness and unhappiness are relative concepts, and there is no substance. So I think the Buddhist point of view is that you are not an “unhappy person,” but a “person who feels unhappy.”

So where does that feeling come from is the principle of Buddhism that it is self-earned. It's good cause, pleasure, and bad cause and suffering.

It means that good deeds receive a feeling of ease, and bad deeds receive a feeling of suffering as a reward.

Being almost run over by a car may generally be a bad event. But what Buddhism preaches is bad cause and suffering, not bad cause and effect.

Something bad didn't happen where I almost got run over by a car because I did something bad. There must be a reason for that. If it's due to carelessness, lack of sleep, or ignorance, etc., there's nothing you can do about it.

However, if you feel that it is excessively painful, or if you drag on and think about it all the time, then it can be said in Buddhism that you are receiving that feeling of suffering as a reward from your own actions.

People have different feelings of happiness, misfortune, pain, and pleasure, even if they are in the same situation as you. It may be easy to understand if you imagine that people who have returned from war with their lives, or people who have successfully undergone surgery for a serious illness, are in the same condition as you.

A heart that appreciates or rejoices over small things orients its mind more towards that trend. The opposite is also true.

That said, humans aren't that strong, so even some effort will break your heart due to life's disasters. I think it's unavoidable to turn in a direction where you feel pain.

But I think the future will change depending on whether you materialize suffering there or see through the essence of suffering.

Write in an interesting way on the light in an easy-to-understand manner. Since you don't take it seriously from here now, you will be heading for bright reactions, that's why ✨
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“I was unhappy 3 years ago, and I'm not happy now”
👉 It's just that the way you want things in everyday life, your initial stance, or your psychological reaction right after something happens is easily linked to a negative mind, negative mindset, and bad heart. People become defensive when something they don't like. They want to conclude, “If something bad is going to happen again, oh, it's disgusting again.” 🙅 In order not to cause mental reactions to become negative reactions, it is necessary to “p*” the bad bacteria in the mind, Baikinman. Through zazen and nembutsu, “You have a new face!” Look at yourself and thoroughly eliminate Vikinman of the heart, which is a negative reaction, with a bad bacteria unpunch. There is only UP※. Everyone doesn't learn how to study the mind at first, so it's just that driving the mind sucks. Start learning Zen today to make your mind macho. ※up... unpunch 👊
② I'm about to be hit by a car ~ is it because my daily behavior is bad?
👉 I was stung by a large hornet the other day.
I thought I was going to die. (Ebizo style)
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I was also hit by a hit shop. It can also be used as a Chinese scam with internet products.
Bad luck doesn't matter what you do on a daily basis.
Probably everyone will die sometime. 100% everyone. everyone.
People can't choose when they are born or die, their parents, today's weather, or Hasunoha's answer monks. But you “can” choose where to turn your heart out. You can't keep “making” your heart turn in a negative direction from now on! That's it. Please do training so that your heart doesn't get dented by watching it on YouTube where one bottle is missing.
③ (flies) were there, so I killed them
👉 At home centers, even civilians can obtain drugs and equipment that massacre insects and grass.
('-ω-`) Sterilizing... cold bacteria and coronavirus seem pitiful! People who say things like that... are simply dangerous ideas. I got an anisakis at a store and said, “I thought I was going to die.” Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! 📸✨ Please pay attention to the flash.
There are lots of creatures that must be exterminated in terms of living, such as vegetables, sashimi, floors, and clothing. However, let's devise ways so that they don't kill unnecessarily and have a bad effect on each other. Great hornets have been exterminated. 👼 Do women around their age have bad bugs (abbreviated below)

I read it.
You think you were unhappy 3 years ago and you're still not happy now. I think I can understand how you feel that way. It's hard to feel happy, is it? I understand your feelings from the bottom of my heart.
If you don't think you're happy right now, what should you do to be happy? I think you have your own happiness. That may not be what others say. Or maybe it's relative.
I think you can find something for yourself that makes you feel happy.
Or maybe they're actually close to you like Maeterlinck's Blue Bird, or maybe they're actually already happy.
It's hard to feel happy.
The fact that you didn't get into an accident or get hurt is probably a blessing in the midst of misfortune.
We may be involved in accidents, incidents, and disasters at any time, and even in our lives as a matter of course, they are actually not taken for granted, and they may be miraculously being kept alive, and maybe we are blessed. We are living in such a strange encounter.
Yes, insects also have lives, so the bugs were probably desperately running away in an attempt to survive somehow. However, they ran out of strength and were killed by you.
One inch of insect is five minutes of soul. I sincerely pray that the bug will be at peace. Shishin Gassho Nanmu Amida Buddha
Maybe that bug is myself, or maybe it's the reincarnation of people I have relationships with. No matter what life it is, it is an irreplaceable and precious life. We are receiving such precious lives every day, and they are killing them.
I pray with all my heart that all lives will be saved. Shishin Gassho Nanmu Amida Buddha

There is a poem I wrote myself that says “What is happiness,” so please read it. I hope it gives me some hints.

I can breathe, my hands move, my eyes can see, I can laugh and cry. They can eat delicious food, and there are places to live, but I know people who are full of complaints.

I can't see, and I can't hear any sound. I can't move my hands, and I can't walk. I can't even breathe on my own, and I can't eat food through my mouth. But I know people who are surrounded by wonderful friends and laugh every day.

What's the difference?

I know a woman who lost her husband early in her life but still deeply loves her late husband.
Even after becoming an old man, both his husband and wife are living well. But I know people who complain to each other every day.

What's the difference?

I know people who have electricity, water, and sewerage, and have the latest cars and big houses, but they aren't satisfied and can only think about themselves.

There was no telephone or running water, and the house was made from banana leaves myself. I know people who don't have a small amount of savings, but every morning they put their hands together and thank them when they are happy to be able to cook delicious rice for the almighty monk.

What's the difference?

Is it the sensitivity of happiness or contentment?

There is a saying that it's not enough to be arrogant; if you don't do it, it's enough.
Isn't this what I'm lacking right now?

Modern people sometimes have a dull sense of happiness. Maybe we should once again become aware of the beauty of nature, the splendor of how life works, and the essence of happiness that is not money or things. You, too, are living in the moment. Please take a look at it in an ingenious way so that you can feel happy.

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If you look for happiness outside of your heart, no one will be happy.
You'll be able to ask for it from within.
Let's try to nurture the “happiness” and “joy” in our hearts.
The way to develop “happiness” and “joy” in your heart is to do something that warms your heart.
If you are kind or compassionate to yourself or others, even in trivial matters,
Your heart will be warmed, you will feel kindness, and you will feel happiness and joy.
Repeating this will nurture you.
Also, in order to make it easier to feel happy, it is necessary to have a calm, and peaceful state of mind. To do that, even 5 minutes a day is fine, so make it a habit to meditate to calm your mind. By continuing, the thought “you won't be happy forever” will decrease.
When it comes to cars, we live in such an environment called the car society. Everyone is in the same situation as you. It's no coincidence, and it's not your fault. It's not your fault either. If you look at it objectively and only appreciate that your life was saved, I think that's fine.
As for insects, the Buddha is supposed to dispel mosquitoes and not kill them, but mosquitoes may have died when they are brushed away. Or if you walk down the street, you may be unwittingly stepping on insects to death. Mosquitoes might be like this. “I forgive you because in the next world, you may be reborn as a different creature.”
Buddha is like this, isn't it? It's sad to be caught by insects and not being able to look at the original way of life. with
Please refer to it.
Gassho ceremony

1. According to Buddha's teachings, there is no absolute or eternal state of sentience (life), including humans. Life does not stand still and continues to be formed and destroyed instantaneously as a result of the effects of a huge number of causes and relationships within the law of cause and effect. Even if there is a pattern where a result of “not being happy forever” is generated by chance as a result of countless combinations of causes and relationships (for example, when coin toss is repeated indefinitely and only the same side continues to appear), the possibility that it will appear (continue to appear) in the life called “myself” now is infinitely small, so you can think that this is actually impossible.

2. According to Buddha's teachings, every phenomenon in this world also appears due to the law of cause and effect, so there is a cause for the phenomenon of “almost being hit by a car.” There is a possibility that “bad behavior on a daily basis” is one of the causes (causes), but it is wrong to think “I almost got hit by a car because of my poor daily behavior.” Since the number of causes and relationships for a phenomenon to appear is huge, it cannot be said that one cause is directly linked to one effect.

3. Meanwhile, according to Buddha's teachings, the law of cause and effect is definitely consistent in terms of good cause and effect (good causes bring good results) and bad causes and bad effects (bad causes bring bad results).
Killing a life is a bad cause in any case, so this will eventually show up as a bad effect.
However, this case is also one of countless causes and relationships, so we cannot know what kind of bad effect it will be.
You can't say “I hit a fly to death, so in the next life, I'll be born to a fly and hit to death.”

All sentient beings always want to mean the world around “themselves,” and they want to fulfill their desires. For example, I always try to mean and interpret things like “happiness,” “car accident,” or “fly” from the “own” point of view. I use my “own” yardstick as to whether they are useful or useless for “myself,” whether they are loss or gain, and whether they are big or small. The Buddha tells us that this is a delusion.
The depth of delusion is simply the depth of worry. The Buddha taught that in order to get rid of worries, one must stop delusions.