Epicurus isn't making me happy. How do I become happy?

If you don't exclusively sit in a garden all day quoting Epicurus with your friends you're not doing it right, and you will never escape pain.

>>8516330
It's too hot for that.

>>8516305
Why do you want to be happy?

>>8516305
stop seeking happiness in precooked aphorisms by some fucker from 2000 years ago or in advice taken from 4chan shitposts
figure it out for yourself

>>8516379
ýeah, just figure it out like this 4chan anon advised you

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As far as I know you have to trace your problems and insecurities back to your childhood and find the root patterns of thought you inherited from your (bad) parents which cause you to continuously make decisions which make you unhappy. I believe it's usually some sort of dishonesty to yourself and others that causes unhappy. I think the majority of people are unhappy.

>>8516609
This. You're unhappy because you're in conflict with yourself and resist psychological cramps of sorts. There are no new, bad experiences. Everything you interpret in your visual or auditory field is a result of old memories, old traumas, which you use to project them onto the present world. Cleanse yourself by meditating daily. Deep into your meditation, if something uncomfortable or frightening comes up in your consciousness - stay with it, identify with it, but do not shove it away. Let it be. Become that whatever you feel, become aware of its cause and redefine your reaction to it.

It only works if you stick to it.

>>8516305
Look at the world or your community and ask yourself "how can I help" choose to fix small problems that do not require you to recruit the help of others. Work until you can not think. Sleep the sleep of the just.

>>8516305

>wants to be happy
>reads old-fashioned, obscure, weird speculation (=philosophy)
>not scientifically verified positive psychology