This is because the real cause of happiness is inner peace, which can be found only within the mind, not in external conditions.’ Advice for Life email series The best we can hope for is to provide people with conditions that bring some temporary respite from problems and difficulties, but we cannot give them true, lasting happiness. Through technological progress and by organizing society in fairer, more humane ways, we can certainly help to improve people’s lives in some respects, but whatever we do will inevitably have some unwanted side effects.
‘We can sometimes help others by providing them with money or better material conditions, but we should remember that the greatest benefit we can give is to help them overcome their delusions and find true, lasting happiness within. How wonderful!' Read an excerpt from the chapter on 'Learning to Cherish Others' We can help them discover an inner peace and joy that nothing, not even death, can destroy. In this way we can help others solve their problems not just for a few days or a few years, but for ever. Having overcome our own delusions, such as anger, attachment and ignorance, and developed profound spiritual realizations of universal love, compassion, concentration and wisdom, our ability to help others will be far greater. Eventually, by abandoning delusions altogether, we will attain the supreme permanent inner peace of nirvana. By continuing to improve this experience, deluded states of mind will gradually diminish and our inner peace will grow. If we put these methods into practice we will definitely gain a special experience of mental peace.
'This book presents many profound methods of spiritual training, all of which are practical ways to purify and control our mind.
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In How to Transform Your Life, a free eBook download, the author, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, says:
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