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Visiting a Buddhist centre in Australia, Ajahn Dtun speaks through a translator on happiness. People of every background meet like relatives in the Dhamma, he says, as rivers become one salty taste in the ocean. Most seek happiness through the senses, but the highest happiness comes from a peaceful mind, as greed, hatred and delusion are let go. If body and mind were the same, we could order the body not to grow ill, age or die. Goodness developed through precepts and meditation is wealth no thief or fire can take.
In the long question period he says meditation must be continuous. It is like throwing rocks into an algae-covered pond, where the green closes again unless one keeps throwing. Other answers cover making mettā a foundation, that no one can remove another's kamma, starting with one's own suffering rather than carrying the world's, chanting as preparation for meditation, and watching body, feeling and the knowing mind as separate during illness.