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This sounds like playing with words for me.
If you are not happy right now, then moving from your current state "not happy" to state "happy" is a goal. And during this transformation you become happy.
So, even if the happy is just a mental state, you still can become happy and can set target to reach this.
Buddhism is based on experience. When people just read books that try to convey the un-conveyable, it looks like word games. Then they repeat those word games thinking they’re spreading the wisdom.
I like how you put that. The answer isn't in the lesson, it's in the practice.
It’s nothing otherworldly; it’s just beyond words. Like the flavor of garlic. You literally can’t understand it except by putting garlic on your tongue. “Well it’s uh kinda like cheese and also like onion. Like a cheesy onion”
“Oh yeah garlic is a cheesy onion! I get it now!”
No. Just eat the garlic. It’s the only way to know.
Yeah and he also told people to talk on their level of understanding.
It connects back to that proverb “money can’t buy happiness”. Having sufficient money can certainly remove many issues preventing happiness, but if you make money your goal or even removing a particular issue your goal, you may have bettered your life by removing those obstacles but aren’t necessarily “happy”
Fully agree that money or other similar goals do not buy happines. But there are goals as well. Like stop being unhappy and become happy. And there are steps one can follow to reach this goal.
You got it exactly right. Lower your expectations and they will be lowered. You don't need mystical insight to grasp this.
There probably is some worth to the idea. If you can't get something fixating on it isn't going to do you much good also it is unwise to keep following every shiny thing in hopes that this new one will fix everything.
So yeah don't buy that cryptocurrency promoted by a DJ, don't blame your partner for your bad day at work, and if you can't fix part of your past it is best not to dwell on it.
Look at me. I am Guru now.