Question

Why does the narrator say ,I suppose HAPPINESS does not depend on the amount of money in the bank ?

Answer 1

Answer:

You may notice, though, that here “mind” (which in Pali is manas — a word that includes thought) is only one factor affecting our happiness, with speech and actions being another two. Body, speech, and mind are seen, in Buddhism, as three ways in which we can either produce suffering for ourselves, or free ourselves from suffering. Mind is, however, seen as primary. Our speech and actions don’t arise without cause, but rather spring from the mind — not necessarily from what we think of as thought — but certainly from the mind. So there’s nothing outrageously un-Buddhist about this quote.