{"id":13196,"date":"2021-08-29T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T05:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldsite.buddhistcouncil.org\/?p=13196"},"modified":"2021-08-29T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T06:21:21","slug":"on-happiness-and-where-to-find-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oldsite.buddhistcouncil.org\/old\/on-happiness-and-where-to-find-it\/","title":{"rendered":"On Happiness and Where to Find it"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"13196\" class=\"elementor elementor-13196\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4de9585 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4de9585\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a93537\" data-id=\"4a93537\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44a7aab elementor-widget elementor-widget-author-box\" data-id=\"44a7aab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"author-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buddhistcouncil.org\/old\/wp-content\/plugins\/elementor-pro\/assets\/css\/widget-theme-elements.min.css\">\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/rainbodhi.org\/about-us\/\" class=\"elementor-author-box__avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldsite.buddhistcouncil.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bhante-Akaliko-Profile-Photo-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bhante Ak\u0101liko\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/rainbodhi.org\/about-us\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-author-box__name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBhante Ak\u0101liko\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Ak\u0101liko Bhikkhu is an Australian monk in the Theravada forest tradition  currently residing at Lokanta Vihara (the Monastery at the End of the World) in Sydney, Australia. Bhante Ak\u0101liko is the founder of Rainbodhi LGBTQIA+ Buddhist Community and a Buddhist chaplain at Western Sydney University. He is also on the board of directors of the Buddhist Council of NSW. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ead08b4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ead08b4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-10a70db\" data-id=\"10a70db\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7cfa727 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7cfa727\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Buddhism sometimes gets a bad reputation for seeming obsessed with suffering. It\u2019s true that the concept of suffering has a big place in the Buddhist thought-world; however, suffering is pointed out so we can learn how to avoid creating <i>more<\/i> suffering in our lives. The Buddhist path is really about happiness, because the absence of suffering <i>is <\/i>happiness. The highest happiness is complete liberation from suffering; Nibbana.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Many of us don\u2019t really know what true happiness is, or where to find it. The types of happiness we tend to seek are the pleasures of the senses; sights, sounds, smells, taste and touch. However, these types of pleasure are not a safe bet for long lasting happiness because they are impermanent and changeable. Further, they have many drawbacks, obsessing our mind like an addiction, creating craving and attachment in our minds that can never be quenched. This leads to further suffering which we try to assuage with yet more sensory pleasures but these also fail to make us happy. The Buddha compared our experience to a dog gnawing at a bone that has been scraped clean of meat; the dog keeps chewing but only gets the faintest taste of meat and its hunger is never really satisfied. It\u2019s like this for all sensual pleasures.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>So, where does the Buddha recommend we seek happiness? He says happiness is found in anything connected with the wholesome; such as being ethical, kind and generous, or performing meritorious deeds. Being a good person is a type of bliss in itself! Practicing renunciation\u2014giving up sensual pleasures\u2014is also a way to experience some happiness because we disrupt the cycle of craving and suffering and start to see the happiness of contentment.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>But the best way for us to experience real and meaningful happiness is to practice meditation. This is where we learn there is a type of happiness that is not dependent on our senses, or external objects and experiences. Meditation shows us a happiness that is generated from within our own minds, a happiness that is always there if we just turn inwards and let go. When we meditate, the mind becomes peaceful and calm, and this feels good\u2014already we are happier than before. As our meditation progresses, we experience increasing levels of joy, rapture and bliss. 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