#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-glimpses ![The Secret to Happiness - Happiness is Improvement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ7Y5UnBETU) This is a problem with with regular people. They think life is stagnant. They don't understand the concept of happiness. Happiness to me is improvement. People think of happiness as getting more stuff nicer car, nicer house, more money, better jobs better wives and so forth. And that is not improvement. That is broadening. You're at the same level. You seem to be doing the same thing with different people with different things. That's all. Whereas when we talk about improving in our world is actually your mind is changed for the better. How do you measure the better? Very simple. In our world, you look at yourself. You hang in there long enough. When I tell you, oh, you improve. Look at yourself. you see that you kind of are a nicer person as reflected at through the people who come in contact with you let's say at home at work and so forth they like you more they get along better with others so that's because your wiring has changed you just if you stay the same level you simply learn to say more words and use more increase vocabulary when we talk about improvement our world is a rewiring of the brains so that you have number one more stamina. Number two, your head, your mind is faster. By the way, every time I say you improve, okay, basically your mind is twice as fast as before. You May not notice it, but I notice it. And you are more patient than before. You have more stamina or more patient. And you are developing on the path of developing real wisdom for yourself. So, it's real concrete for us. And that's why when I said when you improve because you will find yourself you you find yourself more interesting and that's how you keep on doing that then your life keeps on getting better and better and better and this is a concept that ordinary people they don't have that concept. The concept is you have to improve in order to be happier. If you are at this level here of of intellect of of speed of mind, keep it simple, speed of mind, okay, you can only process so much and life is more complicated. Now you you you know the nature of life is we get overwhelmed. Isn't that right? We all get overwhelmed. It doesn't matter who you are, you get overwhelmed and it doesn't get any better. And that's why the concept improvement is very important. When you improve, you can handle this workload here a lot easier. You work a lot more efficient. You can work a few hours, but you get more done. Okay? That's why why it matters. Same thing. Happiness when you're at this level, whatever makes you happy is different. Now, you have this level where you explore new things. Your life becomes more multi-dimensional as it get better and better and better. And that's what makes life more interesting. Whereas ordinary people concept of happiness is this level and they branch out horizontally. We are talking about going up vertically and it's not it's not a word. I'm telling you when you go up vertically when I tell you improve that means your heart is goodter. Number one. Number two your mind is faster. You can process more than before. Okay. and so on and so forth. You have more stamina, you have more patience and and you kinder and so forth. That's what you are getting out of this. Whereas the ordinary people they are basically have a flat flat level of intellect I mean of speed of mind and so forth. You see that's the difference. That's real. And it gets better, right? It gets more interesting and more interesting non-stop. And this is what is referred to as your Buddha nature. The Buddha nature of yours must be mind. You have this Buddha nature which is the treasury of the Duskam one. The treasury of dusk one is actually the Buddha. Duskam one means Buddha. Treasure the Buddha meaning that this is the most valuable thing on earth and that's called our Buddha nature. So it's a mining process where when you improve that's you you get deeper into your mind and you're drawing out more of your treasures that the treasure from the one treasury. So all those have the incredible treasures there. Okay. And that's what it's a mining process if you will. [bell] Atom toe.