Everyone wants to be happy. People tend to equate happiness with having a lot of money, a successful career, or landing that perfect mate.
But happiness is just an emotional high. It is transient and exists only in relation to unhappiness, an emotional low.
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In mindfulness we embrace stillness. Stillness leads to clarity. If puddle of muddy water is left undisturbed for a period of time, it eventually becomes clear as dirt particles settle to the bottom. Clarity is an addition by subtraction– we value what is not there rather than what is there. Just as clear water is a potential of a muddy puddle, a clear mind is a potential of one filled with mental clutter. When we breathe mindfully and observe the arising and passing of our thoughts, without resisting or clinging to them, our mental turbidity will gradually decrease, leaving a clear mind that dwells in stillness.
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