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That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. — Matthieu Ricard

Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway. — Frederick Lenz

Buddhism is not a religion, but rather a way to finding happiness. — Gyalwa Dokhampa

Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you. — Frederick Lenz

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now. — Sharon Salzberg

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha

All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind. — Frederick Lenz

Many people think excitement is happiness ... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. — Daisaku Ikeda

Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it. — Frederick Lenz

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. — Goldie Hawn

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable. — Frederick Lenz

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. — Frederick Lenz

Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy. — Frederick Lenz

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion. — Allan Lokos

What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite. — Frederick Lenz

A smile is the most beautiful colour in the world. — Xingyun

There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all. — Frederick Lenz

Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself - and there isn't one. — Wei Wu Wei

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind. — Frederick Lenz

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness — Frederick Lenz

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily. — Frederick Lenz

Life is a game in which happiness is the goal. — Frederick Lenz

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness. — Frederick Lenz

Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning. — Frederick Lenz

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not? — Frederick Lenz

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity. — Allan Lokos

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success — Matthieu Ricard

Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally. — Frederick Lenz

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness. — Frederick Lenz

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you. — Frederick Lenz

Meditation is the journey to happiness. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you. — Frederick Lenz

You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists. — Frederick Lenz

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end. — Daisaku Ikeda

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain. — Frederick Lenz

When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself? — Santideva

My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind. — Frederick Lenz

When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of. — Frederick Lenz

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence. — Frederick Lenz

I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. — Frederick Lenz

It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others. — Frederick Lenz

As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. — Sharon Salzberg

Forgiveness is the best revenge. — Frederick Lenz

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind. — Josei Toda

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery. — Frederick Lenz

It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. — Daisaku Ikeda

The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it. — Frederick Lenz

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself. — Allan Lokos

Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth. — Frederick Lenz

When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special. — Frederick Lenz

My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be? — Frederick Lenz

To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems. — Frederick Lenz

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. — Frederick Lenz

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find. — Frederick Lenz

The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace. — Allan Lokos

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly. — Frederick Lenz

Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance. — Frederick Lenz

Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile. — Frederick Lenz

We are miracles. So don't deny yourself the miracle of happiness. — Frederick Lenz

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that. — Frederick Lenz

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. — Robert Thurman

Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. — Frederick Lenz

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good. — Frederick Lenz

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration. — Frederick Lenz

The purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be? — Frederick Lenz

To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us. — Allan Lokos

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind." — Frederick Lenz

We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself. — Ole Nydahl

Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are. — Frederick Lenz

Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably. — Kentetsu Takamori

Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us. — Frederick Lenz