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thinking smart about our happiness
taiyaki
Veteran
what i've been realizing more and more is that i am happy when i am least self cherishing.
i find myself laughing and smiling more when i spread all the things i enjoy onto other people.
when others are happy around me, then i find myself naturally feeding off those happiness vibes.
so the bodhisattva makes it his/her duty to be enlightened, so that the bodhisattva can be happy by spreading it around.
the more we place the other's happiness onto a pedastal, the more and more happy we get.
but i suppose that isn't always the case. why is that? it is because of our self cherishing mind. this self cherishing even goes beyond mind.
sure we all know we need to help others, yet do we? the self cherishing nature is deeply rooted in our being, way beyond mind.
so it seems pretty obvious. either help others in their happiness by making resolve to wake up and start smelling the flowers.
your "self" interest can be transformed for "real" happiness, by directing such energy to desire enlightenment.
what is it that an enlightened fella has that i don't have? an unconditional contentment?
why am i not content? is it because i don't accept what is? contentment is totally accepting what is. it is saying yes to whatever happens, thus one's happiness isn't determined by external circumstances. one is always content.
but then why do we aspire for enlightenment in the future? why do we tell ourselves that we'll be content later on. when i get this then i'll be content.
it seems like that is just a cop out. if i need to become something then that means that it isn't here right now. but what the hell do i need to be content?
if i need something to be content then isn't my contentment dependent on that thing. doesn't that make my happiness conditional? is that true contentment?
contentment is simple. we either say no to life or we say yes to life. by accepting totally what is, we become free from becoming. meaning we become but we are content through acceptance.
thus contentment is a choice. why aren't you content?
i find myself laughing and smiling more when i spread all the things i enjoy onto other people.
when others are happy around me, then i find myself naturally feeding off those happiness vibes.
so the bodhisattva makes it his/her duty to be enlightened, so that the bodhisattva can be happy by spreading it around.
the more we place the other's happiness onto a pedastal, the more and more happy we get.
but i suppose that isn't always the case. why is that? it is because of our self cherishing mind. this self cherishing even goes beyond mind.
sure we all know we need to help others, yet do we? the self cherishing nature is deeply rooted in our being, way beyond mind.
so it seems pretty obvious. either help others in their happiness by making resolve to wake up and start smelling the flowers.
your "self" interest can be transformed for "real" happiness, by directing such energy to desire enlightenment.
what is it that an enlightened fella has that i don't have? an unconditional contentment?
why am i not content? is it because i don't accept what is? contentment is totally accepting what is. it is saying yes to whatever happens, thus one's happiness isn't determined by external circumstances. one is always content.
but then why do we aspire for enlightenment in the future? why do we tell ourselves that we'll be content later on. when i get this then i'll be content.
it seems like that is just a cop out. if i need to become something then that means that it isn't here right now. but what the hell do i need to be content?
if i need something to be content then isn't my contentment dependent on that thing. doesn't that make my happiness conditional? is that true contentment?
contentment is simple. we either say no to life or we say yes to life. by accepting totally what is, we become free from becoming. meaning we become but we are content through acceptance.
thus contentment is a choice. why aren't you content?
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if we realize that then wouldn't it be easy to cut that shit out?
To change something we first have to accept what is...then, act.
We can still be content,for its within us. Even if we want to change something.
There is a quote i really like which is: ''accept the things you cannot change; Have the courage to change the things you can; and have the wisdom to know the difference...''
If you Master this. you master your life.
content is just being 'satsified'
And it is very very easy to be satisfied if we just let be..
Life doesnt owe us anything, why do people assume life should go this way or that way..'we hear everyday 'he died too young' etc etc but no one said we were guaranteed to live till 100. We need to 'accept' this and just live each moment.
Its an amazing feeling. just being....
lol
hapiness is attachment...being peaceful and being content are different than happiness. We can't let go and live NOW because peaceful mind is not enough, we want more, we want happiness because we are addicted to its vibrating energy...
the path is certainly about freeing the mind from craving to become
but this does not infer contentment arises immediately
it still takes time for past conditioning to purify and deep real contentment to manifest
i suppose become is the wrong word. "shit happens" would be a better word.
superstitions can be about reincarnation, God, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, etc
superstitions can also be about emptiness
I think becoming has to do with fabrications in response to the war.. Thinking that arises in response to the situation and the idea that we have to do something. And then in the progress whatever we were trying to do 'becomes'.
but "life" is not becoming, per se
"becoming" is mental constructs, mental concepts, mental proliferation, particularly, mental identification of "I", "me" and "mine"
when the Buddha freed his mind from becoming, life did not end