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The Three Spiritual Directions of the Traditional Chinese View of Happiness

Inward Exploration, Abiding in the Present Moment, and Enlightening Wisdom.

Inward exploration: The traditional Chinese concept of happiness holds that blindly seeking outward does not lead to true happiness, but is merely a cover for suffering, a delay in happiness, and is destined to be a path of no return. It is for this reason that the ancient Chinese wise men pointed out that happiness is not outside, but can only be explored inward.

Living in the present: everything happens in the present, the past and the future are just a meaningless concept of time, we can only live in the present, in the here and now, because of this, only those who do not live in time but live in the present are happy.

Opening Wisdom: For the individual life, the more the individual pursues happiness, the more he suffers, and the desire to pursue happiness becomes the deep root of life's suffering. It is for this reason that the ancient Chinese wise men pointed out that happiness does not lie in acquiring, but in opening wisdom.