The Power of Innate Well-Being: Discovering Our True Nature

💡Our fundamental nature is wholesome, complete, and pure, beyond suffering and problems.

🌟We have many qualities, skills, and potentials within us that we are not aware of.

💖When we connect with our innate well-being and different qualities, we feel happy and can make others happy too.

🌱By practicing awareness and connecting with different aspects of ourselves, we can experience personal growth and learn to accept impermanence.

🎯Through interdependence and acts of kindness, compassion, and social work, we can create a win-win situation for ourselves and others.

What is our fundamental nature?

—Our fundamental nature is wholesome, complete, pure, and beyond suffering.

How can we connect with our innate qualities?

—By practicing awareness and connecting with different aspects of ourselves, such as our breath, body, or sound, we can become aware of the qualities and potentials within us.

Why is it important to do social work and help others?

—Doing social work and helping others connects us with interdependence, love, and compassion, and allows us to experience personal growth and make a positive impact on others.

How can we find true happiness?

—By connecting with our innate well-being, practicing awareness, kindness, and compassion, and embracing impermanence and change, we can find true happiness within ourselves and create a meaningful and beneficial life.

What is the key to creating a win-win situation?

—The key to creating a win-win situation is through acts of kindness, compassion, and interdependence where both parties benefit and find happiness.

00:00Our fundamental nature is pure, complete, and beyond suffering, as described by different translations such as "deshek nyingpo," "the enlightened essence," "original purity," and "Buddha nature."

02:23We often have a negative quality of self-centricity, thinking only of ourselves and wanting to win at the expense of others.

03:39By connecting with awareness to different aspects of ourselves, such as the breath, body, or sound, we can discover our innate qualities and feel happy.

05:55Our unhealthy sense of self, characterized by singularity, independence, and permanence, causes suffering and problems in our lives.

06:47By embracing impermanence, change, and interdependence, we can experience personal growth, learn, and find true happiness.

09:32We have many pieces, qualities, skills, and potentials within us that are interconnected and can bring happiness to ourselves and others.

10:18Doing social work, helping others, and practicing kindness and compassion creates a win-win situation where both parties benefit and find happiness.

10:38To grow and learn, we can try new things, change our routines, and embrace impermanence and the interconnectedness of the world.