How Suffering Can Lead Us to Happiness, Part 1 of 3 Sydney, Australia – March 16, 1993

“Now, in this world, we have found a lot of suffering as well as happiness, and most of the people would like to know why there is suffering and how to find happiness. The question to me is not to eliminate so much of the suffering and not to gain more happiness but to gain the Supreme Power, through which we see happiness and suffering as just a stage play, and then we will see things in life just as we see the movies. We may have a little emotion through the characters in the movies, but we will not be overwhelmed by this emotion, and get drowned in this emotion. So, therefore, the difference between a so-called enlightened person and a so-called non-enlightened person is the strength, is the outlook for the different phenomena in this world as well as the world beyond.” “After enlightenment, you will be just the same as before, but there is only one difference: it’s that you accept everything that comes to you, and everything that’s given to you is holy, and everyone else is holy…. So long as we still want to seek peace and happiness within ourselves, and to grant this happiness to other people, we need enlightenment.”