Joy: Wandering Thought #270: While we always know the simple truth of joy being happiness when we personally experience it, we often miss the profound truth of greater joy being happiness when we share it with others, to enable them to experience it too. As the Chinese saying goes, ‘to enjoy alone is not as enjoyable as to enjoy with many’ (独乐乐不如众乐乐).
Then there is the question of what brings about the greatest joy, that is also lasting and for all. This is where spirituality is needed to offer answers for charting our directions towards it, for the most sublime and eternal joy must be beyond the crude and perishable material, including these transient bodies and world we inhabit.