Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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The Dalai Lama's position here follows directly from Buddhist practice, where mental states are treated as trainable rather than given. Happiness is classed as a result, not a circumstance.

That framing shifts responsibility without denying difficulty. If well-being were ready-made, it would arrive through acquisition — the right job, relationship or income. Presenting it as the product of your own actions makes it something built incrementally through habits of attention and conduct, and therefore available regardless of what has been supplied to you.