Views!….

If you have one hour, two hours, to practice, please go and sit at the foot of the plum tree

and look at your idea concerning your happiness.

You have believed firmly that if you don't get this or that happiness will not be possible.

It may be that if you abandon that view of happiness then happiness can come to you

right here and right now because conditions for happiness are always there;

it is only because you imprison yourself that happiness has never been possible to you.

According to the Buddha, to live happily in the here and the now is possible for anyone.

You need only one thing to be free, to be free from your views.

It is not that other people are imposing something on you so that you cannot be free,

it is you who imprison yourself in your views

Nirvana is the absence, is the silencing of all views because views and notions are the foundation of suffering.

~Thich Nhat Hanh