Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.