If we seek happiness externally, making material things our primary source of happiness, no matter how long we search, we will never find genuine happiness. So we need to develop the mind within, bringing it to see in accordance with the truth. Seeing happiness, seeing suffering, these things arise in the heart, they are neither permanent nor certain. This is what will allow us to meet with genuine happiness, a happiness that will transcend the world.

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