【Description】
What is a good, successful life?
For a mother, success probably means raising healthy and happy children; for a teacher, success may mean guiding students to develop correct values; for a businessperson, success may equal generating great wealth.
How to define the “good” and “bad” in life? In this short video, Grandmaster JinBodhi explains what a good life is in the eyes of the general public, and shares with us the simplest outlook one can have on life.
【You will learn】
- What counts as a good life.
【Content】
(Hello, Master. How do you define a meaningful life?)
For whatever reasons, all of us seek to live a better life. Nothing can be absolutely good or bad.
Let’s talk about your grandmother; she feels good seeing her grandchildren grow up. She celebrates her life in this way. Many mothers feel a sense of success when their kids go to university. A boss feels successful when his company earns a million dollars. Thus, there isn’t a particular definition of a meaningful life. I have visited many poor families in Myanmar and Indonesia. A father once proudly told me that he had managed to get lunch with meat for his son the day before.
So, whether one’s life is good or not is determined by how one defines it. Only an extraordinary person has the wisdom to satisfy the needs of everyone; with a life purpose of service, an extraordinary person has a great life. What is the achievement for ordinary people? Fulfilling the needs of their family through hard work is their outstanding achievement.
There isn’t an absolute definition of a meaningful life. This is my answer.