What is the path to happiness?

This is a pure personal thing. What allows one person to feel a sense of deep happiness can be completely different than another person.
I feel it is not about money or possessions.
Finding out what makes you personally feel happy and at peace is only a start on a lifelong journey. Life also injects many things that can move of out of this space.

It is different for each person and I think it changes throughout your lifetime.

Seeking a one, universal path is kind of silly and misses the point of free will and individuality.

That said, I think we can all agree that cookies are, at least, an ingredient for happiness for everyone. ;^)

You have asked a deep question. Humans have been searching for the answer as long as humans have existed. I want to know the answer, too.

I am the most content during meditation and for some time after. The time after varies depending on my daily tasks. I think there’s a clue there. Meditation calms me and gives me a certain feeling of being centered. It has taught me to view my thoughts and emotions with a bit of distance or detachment. My difficulty arises when I lose that detachment and grasp onto the fleeting thoughts and emotions. It’s a learning process for me.

I find a great deal of comfort and a kind of happiness in the rituals of the church I attend, an Anglo-Catholic Episcopal church. I enjoy the colors they use as the liturgical year changes and the incense and the music.

I get happiness from cooking for myself and enjoying food.

I get happiness from viewing beautiful art and listening to music I like.

I think happiness comes from many daily activities and finding the ritual in small tasks.

Everyone has their own path, including each individual following the same kind of teaching (such as those you mentioned).

One needs to develop one’s own ability to feel what is true for us. So when one reads one perspective, one can feel one’s reaction to it, and learn from that, whether it feels right or not, either is a valuable lesson.

Doughnuts certainly give short-term happiness.

Don’t dwell on the past.

I don’t know, but I’m certain that accumulating lots of stuff isn’t the answer.

The internet is usually counterproductive to such aspirations.

Happiness is what you make of it.
A poor person may not be happy because they don’t have enough money. A rich person may not be happy for the same reason.
Find satisfaction in what you have and what you know you can have.

Loving Jesus!

Asking for a “path to happiness” implies happiness is a goal or destination.

But happiness is not an end, it is a byproduct. People become happy while living life well, some from satisfaction in work, some by service, some by awake and present in the moment.

Valium or Prozac.

I wish I could say. I wish there were one path that led everyone to happiness but there isn’t. I have found my own however.