Jendhamuni at Wat Kiryvongsa Bopharam, Peace Meditation Center on September 4, 2023.

The reason we practice meditation is to attain happiness. With regard to short-term happiness, we usually mean either physical pleasure or mental pleasure or both of them. But if you look at either of these pleasant experiences, their root has to be a mind that is at peace and free from suffering. As long as your mind is unhappy and devoid of tranquility or peace, no matter how much physical pleasure you experience, your mind will not know true happiness. On the other hand, even if you lack the ideal physical circumstances of wealth and so on, if your mind is at peace you will be happy anyway. ~ Thrangu Rinpoche

Jendhamuni with sister Chinda at Wat Kiryvongsa Bopharam, Peace Meditation Center on September 4, 2023.