Happy Life | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh | #mindfulness

Many of us have spent our lives

searching for

material comforts.

And affective comforts.

And many of us do have a lot of...

comforts, but we are not happy.

You have enough,
you may have enough money.

You may have enough material comforts.

And we may someone who loves us,

who understands us.

And yet we are not happy,

because we don't have mindfulness.

Those of us
who do not have a lot of money.

But because we practice mindfulness,

that is why we treasure our time.

And our time is very precious.

When you wake up in the morning.

The first thing we do is to...

breathe

and to be aware
that you have 24 hours to live.

Waking up this morning, I smile.

I have 24 hours to live.

You want to live the 24 hours

that are given to you in such a way
that peace, joy, happiness can be possible.

You are not going to waste

your 24 hours

because 24 hours are a gift of life.

So the practice of mindfulness is to be aware
of everything you do in your daily life.

So that you can do it mindfully,

and you can enjoy
every moment of your daily life.

That is the practice of mindfulness,
to live more deeply,

every moment,

so that you will not waste your time
and waste your life.

Maybe we have wasted many days
in anger and fear, jealousy.

We have not made the best of the time
given to us to live.

Is it possible to live in such a way
that we have more peace,

more joy, more happiness,

that help us to help other people
to suffer less?

And the answer is yes,
if you take up mindfulness and practice,

and then you enjoy more the time given...

to you to live,

and with more joy and peace and happiness

you can certainly help other people
to suffer less and have more joy.

Time

is no longer money.

Time is peace.

Time is life.

There are people who are
victims of their success.

Even if they have success,
they can be victims of that success.

But no one is the victim
of his or her happiness.