Buddhism for Beginners: Discovering The True Happiness in Life and Going Through The Journey towards Everlasting Happiness and Peace of Mind

By Lily Homer

Buddhism Brings The True Happiness in Life

The message of the Buddha is traditionally known as the Four Noble Truths. The last of these four truths sets out eight steps to happiness, which are: skillful understanding, skillful thinking, skillful speech, skillful action, skillful livelihood, skillful effort, skillful mindfulness, and skillful concentration. The Buddha understood that if we looked carefully at our lives we would realize that the choices we make lead to either happiness or unhappiness. And once we understand this principle thoroughly, we will be able to make good choices, because we want to be happy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lily Homer
• Release date: Aug 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516392261

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Introduction

We face numerous responsibilities and distractions daily. Trying to make a living, securing financial stability, social media, peer and corporate pressure, and others impelled us to concentrate and exert ourselves in attaining material things.

There’s nothing wrong in keeping up with the standards set by the world. We live in it, leaving us with no choice but to spend our lives meeting its demands. However, the underlying, and perhaps, the most serious problem is we tend to forget the importance of meeting our intangible needs as human beings. One of this is understanding and attaining happiness.

Buddhism, a religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama or famously known as Buddha, concentrates in helping people find enlightenment and follow the path of its founder, who is known to be the awakened or enlightened one. Buddha’s teachings center on the intangible aspects of life that will free us from suffering and attain inner peace and its components like happiness.

To be happy is one of the fervent wish of an individual. As happiness is almost always attributed to material things, we strive and sacrifice anything possible to get the things that make us happy.

In some cases, we simply look into security as our source of happiness. It all boils down to us searching for something to fill a certain hole in our lives, which brings our displeased feelings or known as unhappiness.

The problem with finding happiness using the wrong mindset is we put ourselves in a never-ending labyrinth towards this goal. Most of us will still feel lost or empty even after filling up these life holes or void spaces, which results to pursuing other things that may give