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If we ask what is happiness we find people have many different ideas and it is difficult to say clearly what the experience of happiness really is.
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If we ask what is happiness we find people have many different ideas and it is difficult to say clearly what the experience of happiness really is. Buddha said that our normal experience of happiness is simply a reduction of our previous suffering and that is not good enough. He encouraged us to look further and find the source of genuine happiness in the mind, especially through the mind of love. This teaching is based on the instruction given in the book 
How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
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