Good Morning friends,

Happiness comes from within. I strongly believe Happiness comes from within. Outside act or action is mediator to takes us towards happiness. When we are with our self we always feel happiness. Our being it self is full of happiness to which Hindu religion calls “Satchidanand”. That’s ever happiness or Permanent Happiness. Indian mythology says being human we our self are permanently happy. It’ the way we brought up and grow makes us miserable. Our own soul it self is permanently happy , due to our materialistic life style we are going far away from happiness. I found one very good article on times of india’s web site from Thich Nhat Hanh which was published recently in ’ under The Banyan Tree‘ . 

 

If you want to live, live in the present moment. If you want the Buddha it must be in the present moment. If you want nirvana, it has to be in the present moment. The present moment is the only one when these things are available to you.

 

Why do you continue to run? Samatha means stopping and touching deeply the present moment. The present moment contains all the wonders of life, including the blue sky, including the sunshine, the tangerine and the person who is good, be it you.

 

When you practise walking meditation, you practice arriving in the present moment all the time because walking meditation means to walk without any intention to arrive. There is no destination. In fact, it helps you to stop running. When we go somewhere, when we walk, we have an ideal, we have a desire to arrive. When we drive, too, we have a desire to arrive. When we make a journey, only the point of arrival is considered to be of consequence. Going or moving and the moment of driving or walking are less important. That is a big mistake.

 

When you are able to establish yourself in the present moment, you will discover that conditions for your happiness are already there, more than enough for you to be happy. There is no need for you to run. The one who has peace, the one who has happiness, is the one who has stopped…

 

Maybe among us there is someone who has never paid attention to his heart before. Our heart is a miracle. When I go back to my heart and touch it daily with my mindfulness, I recognise that to have a heart that still functions normally is a real miracle. There are those that do not have that kind of happiness, they do not have a heart that functions normally.

 

They are subjected to the danger of a heart attack or a stroke. And all of them desire to have a heart like ours, the heart that functions normally.

 

ref:times of india