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us, but it does not stay long. Since happiness is fleeting, sufferings could enter.
What is the way to seek happiness easily? In reality, happiness is not far away. Once we attain happiness, what do we do with it? Happiness that emerges, if the mind is wholesome, it becomes very complementary, enabling us to make even more merits. Have you ever recollected the merits that you have made? Yes? Has anybody never recollected the merits that they have made? No? This is good, this is clever. The merits that we have made can be brought to good use. Try this. Let our mind be empty and take this empty, light mind and place it around the area of our heart called hadaya-vatthu—the area between our neck to our sternum. Now, how do we feel? We feel light and uncluttered. While we feel light and uncluttered, we recollect the merits that we have made and take these merits, and place them into our light and unburdened mind. See what is our state of mind?
As we recollect and place the merits that we have made into our unburdened mind—no matter how wide our mind is, make that merits just as wide. Fill it until full, until they overflow from our physical body. If our mind is as big as the (temple) pavilion, also make the merits as big as the pavilion. How do we feel? Fully contented, right? When we feel fully contented, are there any desires? No. There is only one “desire”—the desire to share this contentment with others, wanting others to be
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