From Burden To JOY......

Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
The Practice of Dzogchen

Happiness - Your Natural State

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‘Wanting’ to be happy is enough to lead you to the experience of happiness without needing anything outside yourself to experience it. You don’t need money, the perfect relationship or great sex to experience happiness now. You just need ‘to want’ to be happy now and you will either be guided to the happiness you seek or it will find its way home to you. (And in the process your circumstances will change too, for the better)

The reason most people have such difficulty living a happy and contented life, right now, is that they have cultivated a  ‘Discontented Mind.’  A discontented mind is one that complicates everything rather than seeing the beauty and simplicity in all things. Simple thinking leads to peace of mind and clarity of thought while complicated thinking leads to conflict, pain and confusion.

Related Reading:  The 'One Magnificent Thought' 
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