Sunday, 23 October 2016

[www.keralites.net] Happiness!

 

Happiness!

We seek it here, we seek it there. We seek happiness everywhere. All of our activities -- our pursuit of fame and fortune, our quest for meaningful relationships, our drive to build or change things -- are directed for happiness. We get there, but the feeling is gone almost immediately.

Can happiness be a permanent?

We are engaged in petty power struggles while the true beauty of life lies all round us, unobserved and unappreciated.

Wealth is a common desire. Lots of other items come up, too, including travel, good health, great sex, friends, loving relatives, and interesting work. The truth is, none of those things is necessary for happiness. None of them. Because all of those things are dependent on outside circumstances that will never be in your control.

Don't confuse true happiness and soul-satisfying joy with the temporary satisfaction you get when you gratify your ego. Your happiness is not dependent on your wealth, your intelligence, or your abilities. Your happiness is not even contingent on your continued good health or having loving friends, relatives, or significant others.

In fact, happiness is already a part of your nature. There is nothing you have to get in order to be happy. All you have to do is allow your inner happiness to surface.

Some say How can people be happy if they live in extreme poverty? Or if they are afflicted with a painful disease? Or if they have no friends or loved ones? Or if they're in any other hypothetical situation along those lines?

There is nothing you have to get in order to be happy.

One question remains. If happiness is our nature, why do we not experience it more often? Why are our lives filled with sorrow?

The answer is simple: We have constructed mental models for ourselves in which happiness comes as a result of getting something -- money, power, fame, etc. In the reality that we have created and that we live in, our achievements define us. We are "better" if we are "successful."

When you want something -- and you get it -- there is a brief moment. And in that moment, you experience the happiness that is always a part of you. You are content. And full. But the very next moment, some other desire raises its ugly head and you are off on another fruitless quest for happiness. It is a never-ending cycle.

The problem is that you do not realize why you experience that moment of happiness. You do not recognize that it is because, at that moment, you are free from want. The happiness springs from an acceptance. It is your innate nature bubbling forth in the absence of the bonds you put on it with your incessant demands.

Instead, you attribute the happiness to the acquisition of whatever it was that you got. And so you try to get the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thing.

It is like a puppy that runs away when you try to entice it to come to you. But as soon as you ignore it and start reading your newspaper, you get in your hand.

It really does work that way. You are bound by the things you own as long as you need them emotionally. The moment you sever this psychological link, you will experience freedom, a marvelous sense of liberation.

Think back to your life 10 years ago. You had a list of wants at that time, things you thought would bring you lasting happiness. Odds are, you now have many of them. Have they made you happier than you were back then? Probably not.

Enjoy, truly enjoy, what you have. Strive for what you do not have but want. But strive joyfully, knowing that the pleasure is in the doing, not in the getting. If you succeed, wonderful. If you do not, still wonderful.

Finding true happiness won't happen overnight. you need to make a break with negativity, sadness, and disappointment. Soon you'll be living your life to its true potential.

 

 


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