He Covered a Park in GOLD Buddha s 3 Happy Secrets

Dear children, namo Buddhaya and welcome to your spiritual classroom. Today I want to talk to you about something we all really want, something we are all chasing, something we are growing up looking for, and that thing is happiness. Everyone wants to be happy, right? Today I'm going to teach you about three types of happiness. 2,600 years ago, there lived a very, very wealthy merchant. He lived in a seven-story mansion in the middle of the city. But he wasn't just wealthy, he was extremely generous and extremely kind. One day he had a very noble idea. He wanted to build a beautiful monastery where monks could meditate and live peacefully. So he searched for land and he found the perfect place, a park where there were lotus ponds, deer roaming freely, a place just outside of the city. But there was a problem. The land belonged to a prince who didn't want to sell it. The merchant offered one million gold coins, 10 million gold coins and 15 million gold coins, but the prince still refused. In the end, the merchant did something amazing. He brought barrels and barrels and barrels of gold coins and covered the whole park from end to end in gold. Finally, the prince agreed. It took 18 million gold coins in total. The merchant built a beautiful monastery that was filled with meditation hats and peaceful gardens and he offered it to the community of monks. One day, the Buddha had a conversation with this merchant and said this. He said, Merchant, you're a wealthy man and you've given a wonderful gift. It is true, wealth does bring happiness, but there are two more types of happiness that one can enjoy. Now, dear children, listen carefully because you're going to hear a secret that will make you even happier. The Buddha explains that there are three kinds of happiness. The first kind of happiness is happiness that comes from wealth. Do you have a piggy bank at home? If you do, how does it feel when it gets heavier and heavier? Feels pretty good, right? That's the happiness that you get from saving something, saving some money. That's the first kind of happiness. Then you get the happiness of spending. Your piggy bank gets full. You break it up. You buy new toys, new clothes and all your favorite things. Feels pretty good, right? That's the second kind of happiness. The third type of happiness is something very special. It's called blameless happiness. It's different to the other two. It's the happiness that you get from being a good person. The happiness that you get knowing that you're a person who doesn't hurt anyone else, knowing that you're a person who doesn't kill animals, a person who doesn't steal, a person who is loyal to his friends, knowing that inside you never tell lies, knowing that you don't smoke, drink or take intoxicants. It's the happiness that you get from being a good person. Okay, now let's compare these three. The first kind of happiness was happiness from wealth. The second kind of happiness was happiness from spending that wealth. And the third kind of happiness was happiness from blamelessness. The Buddha says, if you add up the happiness from wealth and spending all of it, and you multiply all that happiness by 16, it still wouldn't be as much as the happiness that you get from being a good person. That's how powerful being a good person is and the happiness that it brings. So children, if you truly want to be happy, be kind, be honest, be good, because that's the happiness that lasts. Namo Buddhaya.