So this is the, as I mentioned, the second part of a series on happiness and in the last

class, I described two kinds of happiness. And the first kind of happiness is a conditional kind

of happiness meaning. It's hitched to our life going a certain way. Our life is cooperating.

And we're getting just the sense sensations we want or we're getting some kind of a connection with

another person that really matters to us. So we've accomplished something that we were really going

for. It can also have to do a status achieving something on status, getting more possessions.

Conditional happiness can be wholesome yet if we're attached to having what we want to have. If we have

to have it, then we get into trouble. We suffer. And some of you might remember one of my favorite

little descriptions of one version of this kind of happiness. It's called the way to achieve

inner peace. It's to finish all the things you've started. So I looked around to see all the

things I had started and hadn't finished. So today I finished one bottle of gin, a bottle of red wine,

my pro-zac, a large box of chocolate, a six-pack of beer, and a pint of Ben and Jerry's pistachio.

You know I have no idea how good I feel. First form of happiness then is that conditional happiness.

It's things going our way. The second is unconditional happiness. The polyword is suka.

I love the expression happy for no reason. It's not hitched to circumstance.

There's a full presence with life just as it is in a sense of real well-being with that.

So tonight what we'll explore is how we cultivate the qualities of heart and mind

that make us available, I'd say, for this unconditional happiness.

There's a story of an American tourist who was visiting Greece and he encountered on a

health side. He was doing a little hiking, a shepherd who was watching a sheep playing a guitar

and really just enjoying the clouds drifting over the valley. So the American tourists kind of

listed next to him. You could really turn this into something. Buy a bit more land, more sheep,

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