People just want to be happy without knowing what happiness is to them. They need somebody to point out the things that brings happiness in their life, because they on their own they don t have time to do this. They are so busy with life 🙂 .
Their happiness is provided by watching commercials on TV, seeing yachts and sea and some smiling faces, Yes that must be happiness.
But those people are actors, and normally it includes champagne, drugs and prostitutes for them to alter their reality, because it seems they have reached a high level of richness but they are not happy. So in their frustration they have to do something anything, to alter their reality.
The moment you will be blissful you need no alcohol, drugs, or going out partying. Just sitting and walking, and being is more than enough. You don t feel the need of doing anything to reality because is so beautiful to just be focus and to pay attention to everything.
How much time do you spend daily trying to know what is happiness to you?
Driving an over expensive car, that must be happiness.
Most of us are trying to accumulate more and more, to cover the less and less we feel inside. We try to figure out the whole world, but never the universe inside of us. Such a big task!
After 5 years of working and wishing they finally buy a Maserati. Such an amazing day, and week, and slowly, slowly the happiness from that thing fades away. And it fades away because you need a car, and it s nice to have some gadgets inside, but an over expensive car is not your dream, is somebody else idea of a dream.
We need people to tell us how lucky they are, and what a beautiful car we own. We have to brag for everything we are doing or having. Because what we think is not enough.
If everybody could afford the things we buy, suddenly we lose all interest on all material things.
Just imagine you can have everything you wish for materially, you will come to a moment you have experienced all, and your next step will be looking inwards. So why don ‘t start now?
So is that happiness?
If you had bought a 10 000 euros Chanel Bag and the next day everyone had that bag, you would be very unhappy.
So your happiness is mostly based on the misfortune of others, on bragging. Because everything you like has to be approved by others.
When you get a girlfriend everyone has to approve, only your own decision is not enough.
So how can you expect to gain freedom and be happy on your own, if for everything you do, you need social approval?
People they want to be ecstatic, but they don’t know how an ecstatic person looks like.
Did you ever seen a person running naked, screaming on the street? Drunk, full of life and adrenaline?
Well that is how ecstatic looks ! Do you want to be like that?
No! You want to be happy, but to be admired by everyone else. You want people to envy you. Even with the price of sacrificing your happiness, the opinion of others is more important to you.
So happiness for you is a very strange concept that you, you don t know what it is but you want it!
Did you veer saw a person just start hugging every tree, kissing grass talking with birds, sleeping outside, the whole world is his home. Talking with ants, crying over a falling leaf?
Now you want that kind of ecstasy, but you don t want to look like that, what would people tell? They are going to think I m crazy!
This is how ecstasy looks like, you would think he is mentally insane, but this is how a person ecstatic looks like.
Don’t ask for something, anything that even you didn’t try to define it first, meditating on it, do you really need it, how is going to affect your life?
You want to be ecstatic but too look normal, you want to be totally free, but not look ridiculous, you are still trying to define yourself trough the eyes of other.
You are still trying to prove your feelings to other, you have no freedom.
You, that thing, you define as you, is actually defined by others. You don t define yourself, so how can you expect to achieve happiness if you are 100% dependent on other?
Your whole happiness is defined by others, everybody has to make you happy, if not your partner has to make you happy, happy for you is something that has to be brought from outside. But thee are times, no matter how much they try it is never enough for you. You should know and feel by now happiness is a state of mind, and it comes from inside.
So what do you want? How much time you spend analyzing your wishes? How much time are you involved in acquiring this happiness? How much time you contemplate on what you already have?
Look at children screaming and running around, very exhausting to be ecstatic all the time. They run in circles for 30 min, and after they have to stop and breath, or sleep. When you are bliss’ed out you don t need anything,you just sit, and enjoy, nothing, enjoying nothing :)) just watching,observing, smiling on your own, you and your mind, you and your ego, is like a whole cosmos of personalities inside your brain, like a council gathered 24h a day, for your betterment. And you are the ruler, you are the one who takes the decisions over everything. You are the god over your universe.
Buddha was blissful all day long. He didn’t jump and run, scream or danced naked, he was just filled by calmness. He had a feeling that everything is how it is supposed to be, everything is good. A slight smile on his face. He had his moments of ecstasy but a general blissful state.
Now Buddha is state of mind, like Lama’s and Jesus’s and Mohamed. These are just human possibilities you may acquire using different techniques, you cannot become them, you become like them, in that state of existence.
You can become rich and happy in matters of seconds. Your happiness is a thought distance. You just have to order it for free. You just have to be capable to cultivate your own mind, own thoughts.
Going on a vacation is just a state of mind. When you say that you take all responsibility of your shoulders, you dance and act like nobody knows you, you don t care about appearances anymore. Nobody knows you, you can become whatever you want. Your mind is set on enjoyment. You are just free, from all social pressure, from all your thoughts and consciousness.
For a time you give yourself a break, a free pass to enjoy anything without feeling guilty about it.
It should be like this everyday.
Why do you have to go anywhere to do this? SO it is basically just a lack of freedom that you are trying to achieve.
Don’t blame your mind for what is thinking, blame yourself for what you are feeding it.
If you read every day inspirational books, go to nature eat healthy be honest, surround yourself by wonderful people your life is heaven.
But just try to analyze what are your habits? Are they against your wishes? Are you postponing things? Are you postponing your present happiness for that thing you assume is going to make you happy in the future.
You are constantly planning the future. Not realizing that the only thing you are always living is the present. This is the only thing you have on a daily basis.NOW
How can you be so arrogant thinking that your future self, you from the future, will enjoy a wife, children or a home, when your life can change drastically in a matter of seconds.
If now you will know you would live only for 2 years or 1 month or 1 day, your whole life will change.
But you think you are immortal, you will live like anybody else until a certain age. You refuse to think you will die.
Why do you wish for things, when you are not even sure what you want for?
You wish for a boyfriend. You get one, but then the boyfriend is annoying you.
You ask for another boyfriend which is charming and smart, but then he cheats on you. Again you ask for something else.
So the universe provides for everything you ask. But he fills the small details with something you didn t think about, just to balance it.
The universe is showing you that everything you have is already enough. You are already accomplished and good, you are just so blind to see it.
The only thing you can do is, totally give yourself to the present, to now, this is the only thing you can manipulate, this is the only thing you are living.
This is all you have!
Yoga is a mean to make you realize this, is a technique that will make you rich in the present. Yoga is a freedom for your mind and body. You just have to let it go, to allow for things to happen. To observe and understand.
Billions of people are trying what you are trying every day, accumulate, is a contest you cannot win.
And how come is only a small percentage of people that are enlightened, enjoying this life, just a few the most rich on the planet, just a few that have nothing and feel amazing?
Probably they did something different than you. Instead of following the herd, be yourself.
I promise you there is another herd 🙂 waiting for you, with an open mind and soul. Appreciating you more than the most richest or smartest person on earth. Because their love is not conditioned by what you accumulate.
They understand that who you are and what you can do, nobody else on earth can do that, and your uniqueness is what makes you extraordinary. And that is the only fantastic thing that matters.
Explore yourself more.