Week One: Happiness

  "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." -Dalai Lama

    What is happiness? How do you get it?? At first glance it looks a simple question, but to meditate you realize that is depth and complexity of them. A simple question like what is happiness? It has a large number of different responses,none of which could ensure that is completely correct or incorrect. It just depends on the person; the same is true in the case of how to achieve happiness, thousands of people try different ways, many of them finding this coveted feeling, and many never finding it. 
           Happiness is finding reasons behind your existence. The extent of happiness cannot be measured by any scale. Happiness is neither tradable nor profitable. Everybody wants happiness in their lives. We must always be contented and happy with whatever we have. Though many people find happiness in wealth or materialistic things such as cars,clothes, jewelry, cell phones, bikes etc. but they fail to understand that wealth is material and cannot guarantee happiness in the long run.