We can use mind for theoretical knowledge or for reality production, and happiness is an example. It is a difference between hearing a talk about happiness and to be happy. We want the real happiness, not just a theory.
Many ideas about becoming happy are quite lofty, including external reality, other persons and sometimes God or other powers.
But happiness is a mind-mind process. Unhappiness is also a mind-mind process.
So, how to be unhappy?
One efficient method is to see faults and problems, and blame others, God and whatever. The problem is not that we observe problems, but that we blame others. For example, being disappointed with God gives tremendous negative backlash.
In many cultures it is quite accepted to blame others. It is true that others often are a nuisance, but if we blame them we get problems ourselves. The negativity we assemble towards others is after all assembled in our own mind, and there it stays. It even grows and increases in power, and eventually it will burst and feed directly in our mind as the most extreme experience of unhappiness. That is not nice!
On the other hand, if we have a positive attitude towards others and try to solve even the most impossible problems, we get a potential for happiness. And when this potential matures we will experience real happiness.
If we know the power of mind, we can look out for all impulses to think, say or do negative things and stop them as fast as possible.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Real happiness 2
How much is your happiness worth to me? Everything!
If feels fine when we can satisfy our own basic needs, and we can call this feeling happiness if we like. But if the only happiness we can find is the one we experience directly ourselves, we will not find much of it.
It is essential that the basic needs are satisfied for all. That is not questioned. The questions is if happiness is something more.
If we accept that happiness is valuable, and that the happiness of all is valuable, we have an enormous source of happiness. All six billion human beings and the innumerable number of other sentient beings can contribute to the totality of happiness.
And this totality of happiness can be understood and experienced by us as individuals. Our happiness can thus be enormous.
If we only see happiness as something experienced by ourselves, we easily accept the unhappiness of others as a natural thing. Historically the suffering of the many for the enjoyment of the few has taken place in most nations and cultures.
Partly this was caused by sheer poverty, but partly it was due to the preconception that the self, the me, was the experiencer of happiness.
If feels fine when we can satisfy our own basic needs, and we can call this feeling happiness if we like. But if the only happiness we can find is the one we experience directly ourselves, we will not find much of it.
It is essential that the basic needs are satisfied for all. That is not questioned. The questions is if happiness is something more.
If we accept that happiness is valuable, and that the happiness of all is valuable, we have an enormous source of happiness. All six billion human beings and the innumerable number of other sentient beings can contribute to the totality of happiness.
And this totality of happiness can be understood and experienced by us as individuals. Our happiness can thus be enormous.
If we only see happiness as something experienced by ourselves, we easily accept the unhappiness of others as a natural thing. Historically the suffering of the many for the enjoyment of the few has taken place in most nations and cultures.
Partly this was caused by sheer poverty, but partly it was due to the preconception that the self, the me, was the experiencer of happiness.
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