Lee464: The past is dead...the future hasn't happened yet...if we dwell in either place it removes us from now...if we are not in the now then we are not living. When you live now then the only state you can be in is happiness...if you are not happy it is because you are not here but living either in the past or the future.
Happiness is not a place you go to or arrive at...it's an awareness...simply an awareness that you are happy...now. And if you can free yourself from the past or the future you will be in the present and only there will you be aware of your present state of mind.
Having done this you become aware that living in the past is a state of unhappiness due to the desire to repeat a good feeling you once had or change something that you felt you did wrong because you believe that this would make you happy...thus you are unhappy.
The future is a fantasy place where we will all become happy...thus we are not happy yet.
The past and the future are states of unhappiness...free yourself of those states and what remains is the state of happiness.Carry on...

ur going to be future...buddha!!
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