The happiness equation

Don’t want anything. Don’t regret anything.

In the bardo

If I am waiting for someone to say or do something so that I can be happy, then I inhabit a purgatorial state. Waiting is dying.

Possessed

Do I need what I want? No. What I need, I already have. Getting what I want requires the expenditure of effort. What is acquired through effort will require more effort to protect and maintain. That is what all effort leads to—more effort.

A lean and hungry look

Many of our young men are dangerously dissatisfied. It’s not their fault. They’ve been trained to want what they don’t have—trained, you could say, to suffer.