TED 2004
Matthieu Ricard 1: The habits of happiness (transcript)
Summary
The speaker tells us that happiness is the state that your mind is fulfilled. However, in your mind, emotions of jealousy, intense grasping, obsession, and hatred are build up for a long time or they might inherent in your mind and they destruct to inner well-being. Thus, you can't look for happiness from outside. Even if you feel pleasure, it’s different to happiness because it’s losing with your experience.
You have to know about yourself that is the state of your mind. It means to be aware of charging your destructed emotions. Your consciousness focuses your cognitive the fact. Then pleasure counteracts jealous, freedom works against intense grasping and obsession and benevolence and loving kindness work against hatred. It takes time for your habits to be fixed though this is the only way to be happy. Happiness ultimately determines the quality of your experience. It is worth a lot of work.
Words in this story
benevolence / mercy, compassion, charity, goodness
counteracts / act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it.
determine / control, decide, regulate, direct
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