Daily living has three aspects:
1) Each individual has a particular situation; this means deciding what you want in a given situation and doing whatever you think you should do to get it.
2)What happens after is not in your control.
3) Thereafter, society accepts what has actually happened as your own action, good or bad, and you are rewarded or punished.
Reward has come to mean pleasure and punishment has come to be understood as pain, all in the moment. We have no choice but to accept if we want to continue living in that society.
This constitutes your happiness or unhappiness from moment to moment over which you have no control, nor can you know what will bring pleasure or pain, or know the total amount of pleasure and pain assigned to you during your lifetime.
Happiness cannot depend on what you experience moment to moment. Therefore, happiness must depend upon your attitude to life.
You cannot be happy unless your relationship with the other is harmonious. Being happy is to be at peace with yourself, that is, never to be uncomfortable with yourself.
You are not totally comfortable with yourself in your relationship with the other because the other will not always do what you want him to do, and, you cannot expect him to do that either!
Everything is a happening for which neither you nor the other can be blamed. So even if a happening hurts, you cannot hate anyone, neither yourself nor the other. With the total acceptance of this concept, in an instant, your load of hatred for yourself and for the other disappears.
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