Pain or Pleasure
Pain and happiness are two sides of the same coin. If you have ability to feel pain, definitely you have the power to grasp happiness. The pain and pleasure are the state of mind. When we learn to master out mind, we are the master of happiness and sadness.
Answer is, Eachone of us has many desires. When one desire accomplishes, we generate the next desire and keep on going. If these desires remain unfulfilled or partly fulfilled, they create unhappiness. This way life revolves around stress creating situations.
In the midst of greed, anxiety and disatisfaction, we have to search happiness. It can only come through eliminating pain.
In the sea, there are disturbances only on the surface, deep inside, there is tranquillity. This approach to life of remaining calm despite turbulence outside- could help us overcome suffering.
upma
