Misery and Happiness

Misery and Happiness

 All misery and happiness
where is it?
In the senses. It is the touch of the senses that causes
pleasure and pain, heat and cold. If we can control the senses and order what they shall feel  not let them order us about as they are doing now  if they can obey our commands, become our servants, the problem is solved at once.

We are bound by the senses; they play upon us, make fools of us all the time.

Here is a bad odour. It will bring me unhappiness as soon as it touches my nose. I am the slave of my nose. If I am not its slave, I do not care.

A man curses me. His curses enter my ears and are retained in my mind and body. If I am the master, I shall say: "Let these things go"; they are nothing to me.I am not miserable.
I do not bother."

This is the outright, pure, simple, clear cut truth.