ing being aware until the In comparison to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, in “The Sources of Happiness”, is similar to the comparing mind in which reveals that the key to happiness is all within our minds. In the article, the Dalai Lama and Cutler mention the difference between happiness and pleasure, “Now sometimes people confuse happiness with pleasure...HHappiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it is there, the next day it may not be"(30).The authors are saying that when it comes to having pleasure, an individual's certain desires are met and not to mention temporary, which results to it being unstable. On the other hand, when an individual is happy, it is there longer. Of course, people confuse good pleasure and bad pleasure and also believe that when they are pleasure, it is happiness. For example, I get pleasure from buying makeup and every time I get a new eyeshadow palette, I feel like a little kid at a toy store, but as soon as I see another eyeshadow palette out I lose interest in the older ‘one I bought. People, such as myself deal with hedonic adaptation which is wanting something more or newer to meet our desires, which is pleasure. On that note, this concludes that in order for an individual to be happy, it has to be within all the mindset and the commonality that the authors, Matthieu Ricard, in the “Alchemy of Suffering”, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler in, “The Sources of Happiness”, both share the common idea of the human and comparing mind in which reveals that an individual has the power within to be happy. If someone wants to think negatively about their life and continues to rely on pleasure for happiness, then that person will have a hard time to