Developing and uncovering a sense of appreciation for happiness. For other people’s happiness. Muditā is translated as appreciative joy. Of taking joy and letting your heart and mind rejoice in someone else’s happiness. I believe this is one of the reasons the Buddha said this path, Buddhism, goes “Against The Stream”. Jealousy, envy, self-centeredness, comparing mind, judging mind, is really easy and totally natural to human beings. Taking pleasure, celebrating and enjoying other people’s happiness, people who are having more success than you, more joy than you…it’s so easy to get petty about it – to maybe even suffer about it. All of Buddhism has one goal: To end suffering, to see clearly what is causing unhappiness and suffering in our lives, and to transform, to awaken, and to no longer suffer.

This Buddhist Dharma Talk is based on 'Against The Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries'.

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