Happiness and Suffering

Happiness and Suffering

In this world, there are only few people who recognize suffering as suffering and happiness as happiness. People grasp happiness as suffering and suffering as happiness. Some people experience suffering throughout their whole life for the sake of happiness while some people enjoy the jewel of peace and happiness in the ocean of suffering all their life.

In this unbalanced, impermanent and unstable worldly samsara, there are desires for happiness and non-desires for suffering. Because of these two-desire and non-desire, without the time to put feet on the ground and look at far distance with eyes, whatever comes out from the mouth are happiness and happiness, joy and joy. In fact, how many are there, whose lives are spent within the state of happiness and joy?

In history several great people, having piled up mountain of patches on their own clothes, have done that many hundred million people are able to receive warm and pleasant clothes. Having subdued terrifying forest and precipice, they have established a pure realm for many ten thousand, hundred thousand people in human realm.

If we wish to achieve complete happiness and wondrous feeling of joy, which path should we rely on? The path of happiness is suffering and the path of suffering is happiness. Or suffering is the source of happiness while happiness is the source of suffering. Do we really have to pass through the path of unbearable intense suffering to achieve the gathering of both inner and outer marvelous happiness and joy that is worthy of being proud?

Some people say there is no happiness even though they perceive it. Some people say there is complete happiness and joy even though others see them as suffering. After all, are happiness and suffering just our mental outlook? All people are running day and night for the purpose of unsurpassable happiness and complete joy. Is it just that our small minds are unable to stay?

Drong Ngur Choje wrote this on 2^nd April 2013 after reading three small history books of a great person.

Translated by Karma Sangmo