“Happiness: The art of living happily is to forget the past which no longer exists, not to be worried about the future which has not come yet, and to live the present movement mindfully and wisely. All we have is here and now.”

Buddhist Socteriological Ethics: A Study of the Buddha’s Central Teachings (1999)

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Vietnamese philosopher 1969

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