Happy Life | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh | #mindfulness

Many of us have spent our life searching
for material

comforts and affective
comforts. And many of us do have a

lot of comforts but we are not
happy.

We have enough uh we may have

enough money. You may have enough
material or comforts

and we may have someone who
love us who understand

us and yet we are not
happy.

Because we don't have muchness.

Than those of us who do not
have uh a lot of money.

But because we practice
mindfulness, that is why we treasure our time.

You know, time is very
precious.

When you wake up in the
morning, the first thing you do is to

breathe and to be aware that you have uh
24 hours to live.

Waking up this morning, I
smile. I have 24 hours to live.

You want to live the 24 hours that are
given to you in such a way that peace,

joy, happiness can be possible.

You are not going to waste your 24
hours because the 24 hours are a gift of life.

So the practice of mindfulness is to be
aware of everything you do in your daily life

so that you can do it mindfully and
you can enjoy every moment of your daily life.

That is the practice of
mindfulness to live more

deeply every moment so that you will not
waste your time and waste your life.

Maybe you have wasted many days in
anger and fear jealousy.

You have not made the
best of the time given us to live.

Is it possible to live in such a
way that you have more peace

more joy, more
happiness that help us to help other

people to suffer
less?

And the answer is yes.

If you take up mindfulness and
practice and then you enjoy more the

time given to you to
live

and with more joy and peace and

happiness you can certainly help other
people to suffer less and have more joy.

Time is no longer
money.

Time is peace.

Time is life.

There are people who are victims
of their success.

Even if they they have
success, they can be victim of their

success.

But no one is victim of his or
her happiness.