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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 27 - True causes of happiness
Description: Most cultural forces drive us toward thinking that happiness awaits us in the realization of wealth, success, fame and other worldly measures. The Buddha taught the opposite. Buddha taught that the pleasure from things like wealth, fame, and all external sources is actually the experience of "changing suffering". For example, ice cream is a source of pleasure, but only when it relieves some hunger. When we are overly full, ice cream is a source of pain. Thus the pleasure one feels from the eating ice cream is only changing suffering, or the relief of hunger. Â If something is a t...