A Greater Happiness, Ayya Medhanandi

All around us, we witness suffering – greed, hatred, and delusion are burning everywhere. We too are burning. We may feel helpless to extinguish those external flames, but we can put out the fires within us. Seeing the harm of unskillful habits and disenchanted with worldly attachments, we live mindfully, using sila – goodness and virtue in all that we do, say or think – not just as a convention but as a force for peace. This is the path. When the inner fires perish, radiant happiness and peace prevail, to be shared with all beings. Sati Saraniya reflections, Aug. 25, 2019