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**ropinirole** · 02-09-2011, 11:16 PM

Can we ever be really happy?

Depends on what we understand by being really happy. There is for sure a kind of true and deep "happiness". The guidelines to it were given by the teachings of the historical Buddha in the Pali Canon. Personally, I never speak about happiness but about a peacefull state of mind where there is no urgency to be or to have or to get or to come or to go. That state of mind allows a kind of space so to deal pacefully with worldly things without having stress, sorrow, lamentation, distress and being attached to things.

02-09-2011, 11:16 PM	#8
ropinirole Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 477 Senior Member	Can we ever be really happy? Depends on what we understand by being really happy. There is for sure a kind of true and deep "happiness". The guidelines to it were given by the teachings of the historical Buddha in the Pali Canon. Personally, I never speak about happiness but about a peacefull state of mind where there is no urgency to be or to have or to get or to come or to go. That state of mind allows a kind of space so to deal pacefully with worldly things without having stress, sorrow, lamentation, distress and being attached to things.
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