#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-glimpses  Next, joy. Joy here is your own joy. You're happy because of good things happened to others. He became enlightened. She became enlightened, you know. She just got a super lotto, you know, and she's not give me a dime because I'm Buddhist, you know. I'm still happy for you and so forth. You know, I'm happy. It's an internal state of mind. Why? Because can someone tell me why the Buddhist the Buddha taught us about this joy here? It seems so frivolous. Seems so self-serving, isn't it? I mean you probably most of you think joy. Oh God, now I'm going to go out after this. No, this joy here is two things. Number one, when you near a person who's joyful, how do you feel? When you joyful, in your state of joy, you happy inside. Then it rubs off on others who come near you. It's not again, it's not an intellectual thing. It's just a state of being where you're joyful. Then the people close to you feel joyful, feel happy. How many people in the world are like that? You know, everyone is so, you know, unhappy and still unsatisfied about, you know, wanting a nicer car next year, bigger house, you know, more babies, you know, better jobs and so forth. So, we are dissatisfied in on our daily lives. You always want something more and more and more and more. So, there's this thirst, this hunger for more. When this person is joyful comes to you, you say, "Oh, wow." It really really very beneficial for your mental health. And the second reason which is a lot less obvious is why does a Buddha teach you about joy is to counter your jealousy. Deep down all in all of us when someone we feel we are we have a certain rivalry with with others don't we your neighbors your colleagues. So deep in our mind we have this jealousy that that's very subtle and this joy here is what will eventually kill us because if you don't have this joy as the exact antidote for you know say oh why did you have a bigger church than I do? Why does he have you know a nicer wife than I do? Why does he get a promoter and I don't? That jealousy here very subtle that will prevent you from becoming a better person because no one knows. Number four, equinimity. Wrong is not equinimity. That's what the Hinayana people are taught. Equinimity and because of course the scholars would not understand Mahayana. So they would quote something that they can identify with. They can understand the scholars can understand hinana but they don't cannot understand mahayana. That's why they quoted sh as equinimity because from agama store is equinimity but for us mahayana I submit to you there's no equinimity. First of all I don't know what the pi word is or the the original pi term or sanskrit term. I don't know what that is. Okay. But I look at the Chinese term here. I'm no Sanskrit expert. So I don't know. My reference is Chinese character here. This Chinese character here has a few meanings. It has to to let go to give away. Let go in a giving away sense. I—I—I let go as a gift to you as seeding to you as yielding to you. That's the first meaning. Second meaning is to to separate from distance yourself from also related in meaning you sh meaning you your loved ones you go to the airport and you cry a little bit but I—I let go of you you go on your trip but come back to me okay okay there's that thing you know where I—I—I can I can release you okay release you let go of you and the most important meaning in Buddhism that includes the first tool is to to drop it to to to renounce it. Now from the dictionary from a Chinese terms alone where do you see equinimity in those meanings? I don't. Okay. So I quote to you from my perspective from a from a language perspective is not equi equinimity. Granted that the agama store says equinimity is fine. Okay. But I learned it from the Chinese dharma. Okay. From a Chinese Master who says you heard on the video yourself. He said that's number one. So for us from my perspective it's not econity but it's renunciation. Renunciation includes equinimity. Economy is too small. Renunciation is much bigger and that's worthy of Mahayana. Mahayana like big big things. So is to renounce to renounce what? Renounce every single attachment. If you attach to to eating, you have to renounce that. You attach to money, you have to renounce. So you renounce, renounce, renounce, renounce. Okay? Because you renounce things that are hard for you to renounce. So when you cannot renounce at that very moment, that's when you realize that you have an attachment to that. You cannot let go. That's what the the dharma is so beautiful because you keep you keep on renouncing this. I renounce the Buddha renounced his throne. He renounced his lovely wife who was pregnant with the first child. He renounced his parents. He renounc his his attendance. He renounce eating eating until he's full. So anyway, so you you and the things you find hard to renounce are your deepseated attachments. That's what's so beautiful about it. If you would say equinimity, compare the equinimity. you want to give me a car, okay? You want to give the car to someone else, okay? You want to give me a boat, okay? You don't need to renounce anything, right? So that's it. That's the difference. Okay? So renouncing has equinimity in it built in. It's a much much deeper Mayana dharma than equinimity. Equinimity is a different different kind of application. If you want to become enlightened, then you practice inunciation. To h to a