“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — Dalai Lama
“Joy shared is joy doubled.” — Traditional proverb
Mudita (同喜) is a Buddhist concept of sympathetic or vicarious joy—taking delight in the happiness and good fortune of others, serving as an antidote to envy, judgment, and jealousy.
It is one of the four brahmavihāras or “sublime attitudes” in classical Buddhist ethics:
- loving-kindness (metta)
- compassion (karuna)
- sympathetic joy (mudita)
- equanimity (upekkha)