What I am talking about here is to tell you the key to maintaining constant happiness. I know there are several people whose happiness levels are falling rather than rising, which is one of the reasons why I haven't been here faster. You see, when your state is falling and you are nervous, you think things are serious and I can't communicate with you very easily. Also, if I come, you get inspired and get free from the dilemma, you will say I did it. This will develop into a dependency, which is bad. You can do whatever you want. You can have, be, or do whatever you want or desire. When the trouble lasts long enough, you get tired of it and you will let it go anyway. Then, you did it. It's very, very good when you don't have to rely on anyone.
What this small group wants to know is how to maintain this newly established happiness. Why can't we keep this state at all times? We can! So I think I will give you some keys to understanding or gaining knowledge, which will help you have complete happiness.
Okay, then the key is: when you understand and when you really know what happiness is, then you can have happiness. Then you can do more and more until any moment. But the key is to know what happiness is. When you know what it is, you look for it where it is rather than where it is not. Looking for it where it is not, which causes your status to fall. Is there any problem with what I am saying so far?
The key is to know what happiness is, and then you can go directly to it. It is difficult to keep having happiness without realizing what happiness is. So when you realize that happiness is truly something, if you become painful, you will turn to the right direction and have happiness.
So, what is happiness? Many people call it happiness, but in fact happiness is not happiness, happiness is just escaping from pain! What many people call happiness is to escape their pain through socializing and entertainment. This is really just an escape! They cannot be alone with their own thoughts. They have to run to a movie, a nightclub, visit others, and through these actions they don’t have to face their own thoughts. When their minds are away from their own thoughts, they feel better, and then they call it happiness and happiness. All entertainment is really like this! A happy person does not need any entertainment or communication. He is satisfied.
However, when you become free, if you choose this way, you will be more able to enjoy entertainment because you are freed from your hunger need for it.
The happiness I am going to talk about is not the kind of escaping from pain, but refers to the true and only happiness. This is a joy that comes from being your true self. The more we become our true self, the more we feel joy. The feeling of joy is a perfect achievement, not because of external things or people related to us. This perfection is achieved by calming down those thoughts of aspiring to obtain people or things. When we calm these thoughts down, we feel more of our true self and therefore happier. The more quiet the mind, the more we only exist, and the more we stay in our true self, the more we can feel joy.
It is very important that you have to realize it yourself: the more you can calm your mind, the happier you will be. It's great to do this. Go and experiment until you understand it. Whatever joy is, it always comes from the result of calming the mind and thus feeling happy. Understand this and you will begin to let go of the thoughts of attaching happiness to people or things. You will begin to realize that joy resides only in the true self. When you discover this, you will no longer look for joy in places without joy. You will immediately let go and just exist in the present moment. Finally, you reach a state where no one or anything needs to be happy, you are just happy at all times.
Are there any problems in this regard? I guess everyone understands this rationally. Whether you understand this through your spiritual eye or not, you can first understand this rationally, then experiment and thoroughly test it, and then you will find out that it is, every time you feel happy, your mind is calm and comfortable, and what you think exists outside of you is actually within you. Only by calming your mind can you stay in your true self. Then, when you understand this, you are no longer bothered because when you become unhappy, you will know where to rebuild your happiness.
Q: That's within yourself, isn't it?
A: Yes. But first of all, you must realize that happiness is not an external person or thing, but a quenching the desire for someone or thing, which will allow you to enter the inner world and exist only in your true self, in other words, it is only present in the present. When your mind focuses on external things, you do not exist in the present, you are bound by external things. So I said the key is to understand this. Your happiness is to calm your mind that wants to satisfy your desires, calm the desire to obtain external things, and allow you to exist only in the present moment. When you truly understand this in your heart, you can do it directly. (When you don’t get these people or things, you can let go of these thoughts and be in happiness immediately!)
The first thing is that you have to go in the direction where happiness really lies, that is, within you, not outside. In this way you build a state of continuous happiness. frank, did I tell you something new? Did I tell? Lee, is this something new? Look, I've told you many times before this, but now it seems new to you.
Q: You told us, but it was not accepted before.
A: Well, in the past, this was just a rational thing, or it had no connection, but now it seems to be new. But, at this point, I always feel as if I'm constantly talking about the same thing, from one side, from that side, from the other side, but always talking about the same thing. However, unless you understand it with your own eyes of mind, unless you realize it, unless you realize it, it means little to you.
Q: It sounds like you are saying that we should not desire cars, we should not desire home, we should not desire wife or lover, we should not desire anything, but become nothing.
Acknowledge: Everything else is correct except for the last sentence. You become everything and not nothing. Become everything, so you don't need anything. Desire is the consciousness of lack and separation, and the source of all problems. If you are everything, everything, you don't need anything. Look, for the last part you just mentioned, everything is correct, just reverse it. OK?
Question: If we become everything, then we become wives, then we become this world, and we become everything. Instead of being separated, we become another.
A: This is the best among all the feelings! When you become another person, this is the highest level of love. This is the highest form of love. In other words, you think she didn't break the plate, we broke the plate; she didn't spend money on the clothes, we spent the money. This is the highest level of love.
Q: I became a car, and then I no longer desire a car. Or, you become everything, you become...
A: Now, you will have to solve this problem yourself. You will have to reach this state in person: when you become everything and feel like you have nothing to do, then a tiny idea of something, so that the thing will come to you immediately.
Question: I have not gotten it yet.
A: Yes! You create a false lack, you create a lie, as you say I don't get it. Desire causes you to feel that you don’t, and wish causes you to not! Release the desire and then you will feel that you have. This causes things to happen to you.
Q: If I look at this world it is like I am writing a novel and saying that I am a character, I am all these people I created in my story. This is how I live today, isn’t it? I create my difficulties; I am writing this story. On the contrary, I should say that I am a power, but why are you so confused that you create limits? I don't need it. So, I stopped. But what do I have when I don't create?
Answer: What do you have when you don’t create? Anything you really want, our pure nature of being.
Q: I have peace.
A: Yes. You are everything, everything is within you. Feeling in this way will make you completely calm.
Q: Until the phone rings, I return to my habits.
A: Don’t allow a small bell to mercy on you. Again, I say that each of us must do this in person, and when he does, then happiness can be permanently fixed because you look for it where happiness is, not where it is not. There is no happiness in people and things. Happiness is our basic natural nature. Happiness is our entire essence of existence. When we are just present, we are infinite happiness. Yes, when we just exist in the present, nothing else, we are just infinite happiness!
Q: In other words, when you have these all kinds of things, like you have a car, in order to get a sense of joy, you use the car but you are not obsessed with it. Because if you are obsessed with that car, then this obsession will grab you and make you feel that you have to be responsible for it.
A: Yes. The deeper the persistence, the less happy it is. (Same, the more you hate resisting, the less you are.) Being obsessed with anything is not free. You can have it but not be attached to it. If you stick to them, you have to throw yourself into misfortune.
Q: Now, when you are in the current state, this does not mean that you are a godlike being floating from one point to another. This means that you are in a state of realizing the truth, so you no longer have to experience the various habits piled up by the ego.
A: Yes. That is to know that your infinite nature of being is eternal and ever-changing. Then the world can no longer touch you. You see this world as if it is a fictional, a dream. You observe it. You live in a state of no persistence. No one, nothing can disturb you, you have infinite peace and consistent joy.
Q: When I try to explain this to people, they think I'm becoming a shadow or something that everyone can't see, and so on.
Answer: The only difference between a completely awakened person and a non-awakened person lives in the world is his view of everything. A person who is not awakened defines himself as a separate confined body and mind combination. An awakened man defines himself as everything, every being, every atom, and treats them as his true self, true self. He regards the essence of existence of all things as his own essence of existence.
Q: Therefore, you do not get joy from anything that has been generated.
Answer: No, your fundamental natural essence is joy. You don't have to get joy from what has already been produced. Your basic natural essence is infinite joy.That is your natural state! No need to get it!
Q: Then exists in the current eternal state of joy.
Answer: Yes. As long as you don't lock it in someone or something, it's always there. But if you say you can't have joy unless you do or have something, you are limiting your joy. The natural state is infinite joy. This is the real natural state. The state of nature is the infinite existence of the moment, but we have superimposed many concepts of limitation, need, greed, and disgust on ourselves, which obscures the infinite joy of nature. If a person does nothing absolutely, he will become this infinite existence. He will be just a watcher.
Q: But you can still enter the hard work of the day.
A: Oh, yes. You still live like everyone.
Q: But your mentality is different.
A: Yes, you have a different perspective on things. You see yourself more like an observer than a doer.
Q: That is to achieve a detached mentality. Sometimes it's a terrible feeling.
A: That is a very beautiful feeling, isn’t it? You are not used to it, so you feel terrible. When you get used to it, it's just cute rather than terrible!
Q: Leicester, is this really easy? Just we make it difficult?
A: Yes. you are right. All your difficulties are kept in your limits. You mix all kinds of limitations together and keep them in your thoughts. This is your difficulty. You have to release all your thoughts. Every thought has its limits. If you throw away all your thoughts, then what is left is your infinite happiness and the essence of your existence. Then you will learn that discovering that you are an infinite being with infinite happiness is as easy as discovering whether you are a man or a woman!
excerpted from "The Ultimate Road to Freedom"
[US] by Leicester
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