You ask: HOW IS ONE TO BE HAPPY?
Forget about happiness,
happiness cannot be achieved directly.
Rather, think of what you enjoy,
what you most enjoy doing,
and get absorbed into it.
And happiness will come on its own.
If you enjoy swimming enjoy swimming,
if you enjoy chopping wood chop wood.
Whatsoever you like, do it and get absorbed into it.
And suddenly when you are absorbed
you will find that climate coming to you,
that sunlit climate of happiness.
Suddenly you find it is all around you.
That's what I would like to create, People have to get ABSORBED.
Happiness is a by-product, it is not a goal.
Doing the thing that you want to do, happiness comes.
OSHO