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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
MAY 2014
Thus He Was Thus He Spake : Happiness
Sitting forlorn, contemplative, trying to grasp - what exactly is this elusive thing called happiness?Was trying to jot thoughts as they were rushing through and I remembered this exercise we did a decade ago with my friend Divyaa where we wrote about what constituted happiness-While mine were more mundane, hers more existentialSo here is a synopsis As you read , please take a pen and paper and write down all that constitutes as happiness to you• Happiness is acceptance; unhappiness is in • Happiness is in surrender of 'happiness'; resistance
unhappiness is in trying hard to be happy Happiness is embracing the flow of events; Happiness is in not defining what happiness is or unhappiness is in trying to/thinking we can control what can make us happy; unhappiness is in the them
limited images we have of happiness and what Happiness is the deep abiding trust that
brings us happiness everything is happening for the larger good even Happiness is in being free of the '
me' (individuated/ if we cant see it now; unhappiness is in wrestling separated ego notion); with the reasons
unhappiness is part of the individuated separate Happiness is a state of forgiveness where no one ego self experience!No me = no worries, is seen as transgressor-thus no one to blame or concerns, agenda's = happiness forgive; unhappiness is in the burdens of blame
RESHMA JAIN and guilt
The Narrators Happiness is seeing the gift/opportunity/positive in everything; unhappiness is seeing the problem,
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SPIRITUAL THOUGHT Happiness is in Self - in Its empowerment that
• If someone is rude and unkind, i will remember that no outside agency be it another', 'fate' or 'God' is
the persons must be miserable inside. And so I will responsible for our experiences the gnosis that we reflect, attract or put into our blueprints
try to b kind and forgiving and when someone
commits a mistake, I will forgive. everything we meet in life);
• Accept things and people as they are and one will unhappiness is in abdication of this responsibility and deeming this point of power to be on the
be happy always. outside.
• Everybody is full of violence, greed but since they
don't have power, they behave like saints. Happiness is the equanimity of non judgment;
• Power in itself is neutral in good man's hand. It is unhappiness is in the e-motions of judgment &
blessing and in others hand, it's curse. labels (good/bad-right/wrong - happy/pain)
• Meditation can clean the ugly insticts within man, Happiness is in witnessing - knowing one is not
so when he has power, he is not corrupted. ones thoughts or the content of one's mind;
• If friendship is your your weakest point, you are unhappiness is in getting caught in the minds
the strongest person in the world. drama of duality and thoughts and their seeming ups and downs
• You only live once, but if you it right, once is enough. • Happiness is mindfulness in the Now; unhappiness • Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
is focus on the past/ future
