The Importance of Joy in Our Culture

With compassion, you're opening to the suffering experience of somebody else. Far enemy of sympathetic joy is envy or jealousy. It happens when you find that you're envious of somebody's material possessions and social position. Whereas if you can come into a place of joyfulness in our culture, which is so goal-orientated,. most of the celebrations that we do are around achieving some kind of social position or status.