The Code of Happiness

Xuefeng

May 23, 2025

Happiness is a state of consciousness in which one feels content with the present.

Wearing open-crotch pants, living in a shabby hut, eating coarse grains and simple vegetables, with not a penny in your pocket—yet still feeling joyful and satisfied—that is a happy life.

Serving as a corporate chairman, living in a luxurious villa, driving fancy cars, with billions in the bank, guarded by a hundred bodyguards and waited on by a hundred servants—yet feeling constantly troubled and discontent with life—that is a life of misery.

From this, we understand that the dividing line between happiness and suffering lies in whether one is content with the present.

Thus, the code of happiness is: gratitude, contentment, and cherishing.

Without a grateful heart, one cannot live a happy life. Without contentment with the present, one cannot live a happy life. Without cherishing what surrounds you and the life you are living now, one cannot live a happy life.

We can then see clearly: What blocks, hinders, and obstructs our happiness are ingratitude, greed, and waste.

So how can we cultivate gratitude, contentment, and a sense of cherishing—rather than falling into ingratitude, greed, and waste?

Happiness or unhappiness is a feeling of consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is the key to happiness.

How, then, can we develop a consciousness of gratitude, contentment, and cherishing?

The answer: by possessing a noble quality of LIFE.

What is a noble quality of LIFE?

It is this: A LIFE whose soul garden is free of weeds and poisons such as comparison, competitiveness, envy, complaint, blame, resentment, greed, arrogance, and doubt—and instead full of blossoms such as truth, kindness, beauty, love, trust, sincerity, peace, and humility—is a LIFE with noble quality.

From this, we discover that happiness has little to do with material wealth, or even spiritual wealth, but everything to do with soul wealth.

We can therefore conclude: A happy life belongs only to those who are rich in soul wealth. Those who are poor in soul wealth will never live a truly happy life. Their entire lives will be spent drifting in the boundless ocean of sorrow and suffering.

And finally: What determines happiness is not what we can see, hear, or touch— but what we cannot see, hear, or touch.