The Path to True Happiness: Insights from Dharma
00:00:00.000 | I look at the way that my ancestors would
00:00:01.760 | think about dharma, there are two kind of ways
00:00:04.060 | that we can look at success in life.
00:00:06.040 | There's outer success, which is wealth and its status.
00:00:09.200 | And then there's inner success, which is truly,
00:00:12.080 | are you enjoying what you do each day?
00:00:13.680 | The point of dharma isn't necessarily
00:00:15.860 | to shame outside success or to shame
00:00:18.640 | the idea of wanting nice things or having a career that
00:00:21.920 | is ambitious that other people respect.
00:00:24.040 | What it is saying, though, is that we can get all that stuff
00:00:27.800 | and still not feel inner success, which
00:00:30.800 | is really meaning and a sense of purpose in what we do.
00:00:33.880 | And at a certain point in time, it
00:00:35.320 | can be very easy to be walking a path that doesn't actually
00:00:40.000 | feel like your own.