THE CONDITION FOR HAPPINESS - Lama Dawa's Commentary

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Commentary voice-over work: Lama Dawa Zangpo
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"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If in our heart we still cling to anything, anger, anxiety, or possessions, we cannot be truly free."
-Thich Nhat Hanh, in The Art of Power. S

Lama Dawa Zangpo’s Commentary:
So again, we return to the theme of letting go. Thich Nhat Hanh, great Vietnamese Zen master, tells us clearly that freedom comes from letting go, and it is freedom which is happiness itself. So letting go gives us true happiness. As he says, if in our heart or in our mind, we're still attached to things. If we still have resentment, if we have worries, or we have things that we're holding on to, these things prevent us from being free, truly free. So we practice on the Buddhist path, letting go over and over. It's not necessarily easy. Our nature is to hold on to things. And yet, as a path, as a journey, as a spiritual practice, we continually, through mindfulness, see where we're holding on to anything and work on letting it go. Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us here exactly how to practice the path?

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