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Sufferings: [Samsaric] Happiness

• Happiness is suffering of change in disguise. It changes into suffering.
• Our happiness in samsara comes from causes and conditions. We have to accumulate causes and conditions to be happy.
• Happiness is like an itch. It gives us some relief. But sooner or later, suffering comes back.
• Samsaric happiness depends on causes and conditions. It is not stable. There is no foundation.
• There is no samsaric state of happiness – cultivate this wisdom.
• There is no happiness other than which comes from causes and conditions.
• If you want to be happy, you need causes. People who stir us up are giving us an opportunity to practice patience. See the value of enemy.
• The wish for happiness is pervasive. How to obtain it is not well known.
• Even small insects wish happiness.
• If someone is happy, this is quality of dharma.
• Our happiness is subject to depletion. Sooner or later the effect of good actions will run out.
• Happiness comes from bodhicitta. You have to change inside.
• Don’t cling to happiness. Engage in virtue.