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happy. Why? This is because our heart is full of merits, not material things.
If we want this happiness to last for a long time, we should be “satisfied” and observe it continuously. If we want this happiness to stay for a long time, we should use it to experience every conscious phenomenon that emerges. Usually, we already use the awareness or the mind to experience conscious phenomena. So, we just make a little change—from a mind that is full of anger, full of delusion, into a mind full of happiness. Here, wholesomeness will emerge. Use this mind that is full of happiness to experience phenomena, and, do not be afraid of being attached to it. Now, let observe a little further. If we make our mind that is full of happiness to be as big as the sky—how do we feel? Does the mind that is full of happiness proclaim itself to be “us”? Or, is it just the feeling of happiness?
Without “us”, there will still be happiness. Without “us”, does not mean barrenness. Try taking the mind that is full of happiness and place it around our face. How does the face feel? The face feels fresh and bright, not barren. We should dress up both our mind and our physical body. If we dress up the body but not the mind—our face would be gloomy, depressed, and lifeless. It makes the world appears unbearable. But, if we are happy, the world would be beautiful for us and everything would be good and beautiful. This is not that we are enchanted by