WHAT IS MUDITA - BHANTE PUNNAJI

Just like a river falling into the ocean and loses its identity It becomes the water of the ocean The river is no more In the same way when Karuna appears, the self disappears and that disappearance of self means all unhappiness disappears because all unhappines is self-centered "I dont have this, I dont have that I feel like this, I hate this" That kind of thinking is the unhappiness, the suffering When that self centered thinking disappears, there is no unhappiness anymore You become happy as a result That happiness of selflessness is called Mudita Mudita is happiness, but not self centered happiness It is the happiness of selflessness This is why although the Buddha was aware of the sufferings of all beings He was never unhappy, He was happy all the time Otherwise he should have been crying all the time because he saw the unhappines of all beings Although he was aware of the sufferings of all beings He was happy That happiness is the happiness of selflessness That is Mudita That Mudita or happiness is not an emotional excitement Even Metta is not an emotional excitement Karuna is not an emotional excitement It is a very calm, tranquil state of the mind Metta, Karuna, and Mudita are not different states of the mind It is the same state seen from different angles