I was recently able to say something about my faith in a reel for a Catholic Church social media campaign. In my studies in Catholic theology decades ago - incidentally, it was during these studies that I got to know and appreciate Buddhism, but that's another topic -, so in these studies there was the expression "faith is a dialogical process of understanding". Of course, there is a certain personalized idea of God peeking around the corner, but I still like this word "process of understanding", it's not something fixed, it's fluid, so to speak, flexible without being arbitrary. This dialogical process in turn requires differentiation from duality or oneness in the sense of Unio Mystica. For me, the concept of dialog is too dual here (there God, there man; there one man, there the other; etc.). But it should be simple and short in the reel, and in Buddhism and in my experience there is a happy message. I believe that we are whole and complete at the core of our being, and I experience this again and again, even on a small scale. Everything is already there for our happiness, for our satisfaction. However, we usually manage to cover up this inner clarity with fat clouds and problems. We complain, I grumble. This is not right, that is inadequate, we compare with everything and everyone. I believe that this comparison is completely useless, even distracting and prevents us from focusing on ourselves and being a little more relaxed on the road. In other words, it's about expanding these small joys, expanding them even more and continuing to expand them and holding them lovingly in our hearts. Then what we call bliss ultimately happens in the awakened state of 'pure bliss'.I believe that I - and we - can manage to achieve this clarity. I believe that this is not possible without dedication to life. That it can only succeed if I keep a sense of humor, preferably towards myself. That I don't stiffen up. In other words, to remain open to all the wonders within and around me. Of course, Buddhist teachings also have a concrete system for this question. It is about the so-called four seals. All those who are convinced of these four seals - who believe in them - are, so to speak, on the path of the Buddha.the first seal means that all composite phenomena are impermanent. It is not so easy to recognize and accept this. How we like to think, when we look at the sunlit mountains in the alpine hut, that we are constantly experiencing these sunny mountains and then the next day it rains cats and dogs. The weather is also part of the composite phenomenon of the bright mountains. It's similar with marriage, work, cars, etc. The second seal is perhaps even more difficult for us: all feelings are suffering. We would like to eradicate only the so-called negative feelings. But that doesn't work, they keep insistently knocking on our emotional door. And the so-called positive feelings fade away again and then there's disappointment and other unpleasantness. Everything is very volatile. So this second seal means that all feelings have an inherent suffering (this also describes the first of the four noble truths), and the third seal is about a specification or the basis, to put it simply, of the first seal and, thinking a little further, of the second. All things have no independent existence. For some, that man there is the best in the world, for the parasites a great host and for the vultures at the end of his days a feast.nirvana is free of ideas. This fourth seal describes that all concepts of awakening are limited and descriptions are more likely to lead us astray. Perhaps nirvana is the happiness of smelling feces.