According to Buddhist teachings existence is dukkha (unhappiness/unsatisfactoriness/disappointment/unease/suffering) because we crave things we can't acquire or attain, things that don't satisfy us and things we have but will inevitably lose.
How can wanting what you have be divorced from anxiety about losing it?
A friend of mine once observed that everyone frets because 50% of marriages end in divorce without considering what the other 50% end in.
Happiness isn't having what you want but wanting what you have.
Or trusting yourself to deal with what life offers, bad as well as good.
According to Buddhist teachings existence is dukkha (unhappiness/unsatisfactoriness/disappointment/unease/suffering) because we crave things we can't acquire or attain, things that don't satisfy us and things we have but will inevitably lose.
How can wanting what you have be divorced from anxiety about losing it?
A friend of mine once observed that everyone frets because 50% of marriages end in divorce without considering what the other 50% end in.
... death. ;-)