How to Achieve the Best Results

Buddhism starts by taking a look at the empty nature of subjective reality and karma (the way that reality functions). Then Buddhism asks, "ok... So how do we use these laws to create the best possible lives for ourselves. They outline three principle paths:

  1. Bodhicitta: Every human wants to feel safe and loved. In order to feel that we are safe and loved, we need to make other people feel that way... all the time. So, Mahayna Buddhism encourages practitioners to generate the wish to get totally happy and teach other people how to also get totally happy. Not only must a person develop the wish for every sentient being to be happy all the time, but we must actually act on that wish if we want to perceive a world that actually rises to support us. If a person develops Bodhicitta in intention and action (based on an understanding of emptiness and karma), after about a decade they should start to live in a world where they feel they are getting everything they ever wanted.
  2. Emptiness: Bodhicitta must be based on an understanding of Emptiness and Karma. If it is not, then you won't really be able to help anyone because you won't know how to actually make people happy and get what they want.
  3. Renunciation: give up on believing that the world exists a different way. Give up on believing that money will make you happy. Give up on believing that you can talk bad about people without creating a negative result for yourself. Give up on believing that hurting your child to teach them a lesson will not create a negative result for yourself. Give up on believing that you can be happy without helping other people to be happy. Give up on thinking that owning a bunch of things and being successful in the workplace will make you happy. Give up on believing that negative actions can have positive results and positive actions can have negative results.
By developing these three mental qualities and acting on them, a person creates for themselves a world where they always feel loved and supported. Of course there's more detail to it than that (You have to study karma, learn how to perfect your mind, body, relationships and world).

Now, if a person does this then they will be happy. If they do part of this, they will feel partially happy. 

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