A Vince Grace Talk
Happiness
I have noticed that happiness is an extremely powerful urge here within myself. I have also noticed that just about everybody else is having the same problem
I have been without constant happiness all my life. This demanded some inspection. So noticing a constant nagging that I am without happiness was an interesting beginning. It opened many doors of inspection that turned into decades of work. This constant nagging would invite me to constantly search out happiness as an object, desire or relationship and anything else the mind would come up with.
I would find countless outside pleasures that would satisfy this demand of mine for happiness. The most obvious observation was that these pleasures required an enormous amount of maintainence as they would always be short lived and temporary. Another observation was that this maintainence was actually keeping me very busy.
The maintenance of this kind of happiness then ultimately would prevent me from changing or growing into a natural happiness. My own natural happiness. I could even say that the search and maintenance for happiness is what would prevent me from becoming happy. Then of course, inevitably, I would become stale within these cycles. It starts with diversions of all kinds, consoling myself, fulfilling desires, false reality and even feeling sorry for myself and/or blaming others for my unhappiness.
Blaming others would be the easy way of relieving myself from being responsible for my own happiness. It would be as if I outsourced my happiness and decision making and now I am holding others responsible for it. As if it is even possible, which it is not. I may end up never being satisfied and ultimately I may be the one that suffers the consequences of my choices.
The Philosophy
The Definition of Happiness
How would I describe happiness from this place. What exactly am I calling “happiness”. It would appear that what I desire to do, I have named this “happiness”. It is how I would have my own way, as well as using it to defend my actions. So happiness here is my ability to continue carrying out my pattern of cycles with as little friction as possible. So, this patterning would include loneliness, love or anything else. I would want what I want or I would be “unhappy”. It’s always on. Ultimately these desires would send me off into an endless search for this “happiness”.
Understanding a Human Being
Where does it Begin?
How is it I can notice I am not happy? How is it I can never become satisfied? How is it I instantly know when I am uncomfortable and why do I need to do something about it right away to fix it? Why is the need for happiness so demanding?
Happiness is not Here
After many years of observation and searching, I discovered happiness does not exist here. Hence the lifetime of activities trying to accomplish or maintain happiness. I noticed I was lacking it. This brought on the work of, then where is happiness.
Happiness is Complete
Happiness is Reality. It is a state of being. It is one with you as you and does not require an outside source of any kind and so cannot be disturbed by any outside source. True happiness does not ask anything of you as true happiness is complete. Ultimate sensation of everything. Satisfaction.
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