What is the common denominator of all human beings? They all seek happiness .
We all want to be happy and avoid suffering.
How we try to find happiness?
- by accumulating material goods (have a nice car, nice house ...) or the sensual pleasures (love, food or drugs ...): this is an endless quest for the pleasure caused by the acquisition of property is short and we want more quickly or something. What a pain ...
- in work being accomplished in the By cultivating love family, friends and . It is already higher: and that's going to happen when you lose them? Or when disagreements arise? We are suffering ...
How long is the life of a human being where he is happiest? Where he "swam in bliss? : when he experiences the love (I distinguish the feeling of love of physical love) being in love, it is thought only one person, having filled his being and it is a feeling far above all others. Similarly, experience the love for a child, a parent ... are unforgettable moments of sublime happiness, and even the only ones we have for most of us experienced.
But does one experienced by during these times? We forget to think only one other being, for which we feel a deep affection.
And that's the key: if you want to be happy, you just have to think a little more to others and a little less to your little person to treat your fellow human beings as they too seek happiness , longing for happiness and building the wrong way they have to seek this happiness, their suffering. We 're a bit like butterflies searching for the sun and huddled around vulgar electric lamps, we burn the wings.
You can retort that some suffering is not the act of deviance in our search for happiness (genetic diseases, accidents, death of a loved one, natural disaster ...). But again, our behavior is essential:
- first suffering has little, what matters most is how we live . Everything goes through our brain. Can significantly reduce pain by the way we apprehend, for example. In addition, you can also choose to search the good and well that can be drawn from a situation of suffering by analyzing the situation objectively, rather than confront it.
- then, and again, things do not they go better if we forget a little bit and we think of the suffering of those around us. A person who helps others in distress rather forget his troubles. And she draws her the recognition of others and sometimes their help in return.
We know the love for ourselves and our families. But the key to happiness is to extend the target of our love for all living things :
- humans, considering they are like us in search of happiness but they do it badly, causing a feeling of compassion towards them and eliminates any feelings vis-à-vis those who are hurt. Those are more unfortunate than you and hurt themselves. Yet compassion is the first step towards love
- other living beings, simply by considering that life is sacred and deserve our love
