Approaching enlightenment, changing your point of view and rejuvenating your ideas, means spiritually changing your values based on the Buddha’s teachings. Values that are easily dominated by delusion or worldly desires will lead to a life of constant troubles. However, a life that has no troubles at all can also be a potential trouble. When we think of a life of happiness based on the Mutual Possession of the Ten Realms, happiness includes unhappiness, emptiness, other emotions and even troubles. Also, within unhappiness, happiness, hope, and joy can exist, as well as other emotions. So, true happiness is a harmonized balance of both, based on another basic teaching of Buddhism, the teaching of the “Middle Way.”
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