Happiness is not something that someone else, for instance - relations or materialistic gains can give you.one has to achieve it by own self. True happiness is obtained through fully realizing your own potential”. He further says “If you sacrifice your own growth and talent for any reason, you will absolutely not find happiness. True happiness lies in building a self that stands dignified and indomitable like a great palace - on all days, even when it is raining, snowy or stormy”. True happiness is not the absence of suffering you cannot have a day after day of clear skies. SGI president, Daisaku Ikeda, a great leader, philosopher and our mentor as we fondly call him Sensei says “there is a saying - a small heart gets used to misery and becomes docile, while a great heart tower’s above misfortune. But that’s where the application of my practice, my wisdom plays an important role to show the actual proof of the mystic law. Now, the devil king or my inner monsters always on prowl to drift me from my goals, and elevating my inherent fundamental darkness impeding my growth towards betterment. It actually helped to switch off the complaint mode and tune into the gratitude mode. My Buddhist practice proved turn key to understand and overcome this state of mind to a large extent. We miss majors mostly focussing on minor’s. We are usually adapted to perceive one side of a coin and switch ourselves on to complain mode instead of empathising the other side or other factors which could actually be more promising, rewarding or are a great protection.
We always confide in carapace of social dogmas or lock ourselves in our own paradigms, perhaps we call it comfort zone nevertheless the cribbing is unabating honing in on deficiency or dearth rather than focussing on abundance and blessings in disguise. Wow…simple and sweet term with a magnificent and larger than life meaning giving me an utmost realization that yes! I am alive.
It also means exuberant enjoyment of life, joy of living, ebullience and a delight of being alive. The literal translation says “looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it”. We need eternal happiness, which is beyond reasons or seasons and this phrase is just about it.I tried to find an exact English phrase for the Joie de vivre, and I failed. Reasons come and go, if so then the happiness is transient too. We don’t need to find reasons to be happy. Is it that shallow? Is it merely superficial ? Is this just an exterior finish? Again a flock of questions invades! And the answer is … “exactly opposite as supposed to be”. if you’re happy for a reason, you’re in trouble because that reason can be taken away”. I really loved this cute message I received this morning from a friend which says “Be happy for no reason.
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