Contacts are happened when senses meet objects. There are nice objects to see, to hear, to feel, to taste, to smell or to think of, the bad ones, and neutral ones. These contacts will cause feelings to arise, whether it is good, bad or neutral. Feelings like these are inevitable, e.g.: we acknowledge a delicious soup, or we acknowledge a rotten bread (not nice).
The common scenarios after something nice happened are, we want to have it again or have some attachment to it, or the opposite, we don’t want to have it again if it is not nice, thus hate is developed. Though some people might (can) just acknowledge things as nice but not attached to them, or acknowledge things as not nice but do not hate them at all. If one does not aware of these feelings and get attached or develop hate, it can lead to stronger attachment or make the hate become explicit. So there is the need that one should be aware for the feelings arises and just to acknowledge it without attachment or develop hate. When one can conquer this, wisdom will then (can) be developed naturally and one can see things clearly as they truly are.
Happiness
Happiness comes from within, though sometimes it may seems to come from external factor, but it never was and never will. It is always up to us, whether we let our mind react to the feelings caused by the external objects through the senses or we just acknowledge those the way as they are. As all things always happened in neutral, it is our mind that was trained and used to be this way, to be happy or sad by external factors.
In my opinion, happiness is when one attain this wisdom and be freed from attachment or hate.
Photo credit: Jean Bernard, draughtsman taken from https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/YR0145057/The-five-senses
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