It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness

by Sylvia Boorstein

I also cry when I see sad things happen to people. Meditation doesn’t cure crying. I’m glad it doesn’t.

We talked about how feeling a little better made her feel much better,

not doing anything to change experience but rather discovering that experience is bearable.

Because a grumpy mood that seems to come out of the blue is so inexplicable, I think we go around looking for something to feel annoyed about, some external circumstance to dislike in order to discharge that energy. Even

True. Humans need the outside to match the inside. If it doesn't we feel crazy so we look for evidence to justify how we feel inside.

“Don’t you know,” he said to the abbot, “that I am the sort of man who could run you through with this sword in a moment without blinking an eye?” To which the abbot is said to have replied, “And I, sir, am the type of man who could be run through with a sword in a minute without blinking an eye.”