A growing number of people today are beginning to live their lives from a place of love. Not doing what they don’t like but doing what they do in fact like.

It seems simple but most people live their lives doing what they think they have to do out of fear. Fear that they won’t have enough money, fear that they will be fat, fear that they won’t be loved, fear motivates them.

Your primary motivation is important because it dictates your state of being, your overall energy that you put into something. First of all when you do something out of fear it’s just not going to produce the same results as if you did it out of love, the fear based action simply won’t be that good, this should be obvious why.

Secondly when you are making your decisions from fear you are bound not to feel that good because you are afraid, it doesn’t feel good to be afraid this creates stress in the mind and body and leads to degeneration and unhappiness.

Thirdly, and most important, decisions made from fear hold you back from your true purpose on this earth. Your true purpose are decisions made from love and ultimately help the betterment of all of mankind. True abundance and happiness comes to us when we start to make our decisions from a place of love.

When you do what you do not because you are scared of what might happen if you don’t but because you are overjoyed with the idea of actually doing it then you are living a life of joy. You will be happy, abundant and the whole world will benefit.

So right now tap into your volition in this moment, are you acting out of fear or are you acting out of love?

Fear ultimately brings death. Love ultimately brings life.

Death doesn’t have to be unhappy though, one can transcend fear and love and reach a plane of non-duality where everything just is, perfect as it is, and there is no consequence of the primary emotion on the happiness of the being. This is peace. Fear doesn’t have to cause stress. This is mastery of the mind. From this state actions simply arise.

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But what the heck is direct experience of truth? Sometimes I describe it by the feeling I get when I am in it; I feel like what I am doing is OK, deeeply I feel like I am taken care of. I feel like everything is taken care of, no worries on the deepest level, there is no need to even think anything it because everything is so solid, its all feels very taken care of, its beyond OK. With that comes this deep feeling of OKness, a feeling like I don’t need to worry about anything, I don’t have to think anymore, its taken care of. All my actions feel guided as if I’m not even doing them, they just happen, and life is amazingly synchronistic and beautiful, there is no fighting, there is no stress.

Sometimes, through grace, I find myself in this state, and I notice the type of impact I have on people when I am in this state, its quite profound. Sometimes I go in and out pretty fast. Like i’ll be talking to a friend and giving advice they can do to improve their life, very logical sound stuff, but somewhat bland standard stuff, we all know it.

But then a profound moment arises and I realize how this stuff doesn’t mean anything, and I drop something deep like “you know this matrix we live in is all just concepts and is inherently meaningless, the only thing that matters is you being here now,” or something, and it tends to bring some deep peace and healing. To connect with deep truth even for a second can be very healing, its this feeling of OKness, its quite profound. It makes everyone feel better.

We connect with truth, no matter who we are or what we are doing the more true something is the more we will connect to it. We don’t have to argue for the truth, its apparent just as it is. The truth is felt, we know it when we feel it. Sometimes we go awhile without having much deep connection to truth, and life at that point, in my opinion is kinda bland, but when you start experiencing more and more deeper truth, life becomes very rich, very rewarding.

Truth is what we really want. Getting things is fun, but getting Truth is a lot more fun.

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Trying means that we are yearning, which really means we aren’t quite in the present moment we are thinking about how we can get something in the future.

Yet when we are truly and fully in the present moment we become like extremely strong magnets that attract all those things into our life exactly that which we want, without trying.

The more we dwell in the present the more we start to see that which we want is that which we have. Gratitude is inherent in this space, again we do not have to try and be grateful, we are inherently grateful in the present moment. When we are present, and we look around we see that all we want is here right now and gratitude can not help but flow.

It feels good to be present, it feels really good.

Feelings Felt in Presence

When we are present we feel directly, without the confusion or need of words. When feelings are felt in the present moment, they are not labeled, they are felt fully for what they are and we get the sense that they are felt much more deeply. When we are not that present we usually feel feelings like how someone might touch water with their tows in the water before going in a pool. When we are present, when we are fully here, with our self, now, its like we are plunging into the water. Your whole body feels. Its not an intellectual word game anymore, your not feeling “grateful” or “happy ” or “joyful” (words) you ARE the essence of gratitude, you are happiness, felt. When we are present we feel without labels.

To feel without the mental chatter, feels freakin good. Even if its a “bad” feeling, a feeling felt totally for what it is fully is amazing. Its the joy of being human that we can feel, and feel so deeply. Again its obvious that gratitude is fundamental to the present moment. To be grateful is to be present, and to be present is to be grateful.

These words that I use to describe the present moment, like gratitude, really don’t mean anything by themselves, and in themselves they are empty and hold no value at all. Value is in the present moment. Value is felt, and somehow if these letter combinations help you feel the value of the present moment, they have done their job in my eyes. Letters, words, sounds, really everything is an invitation to the power of the present moment. I trust that these words will help you feel the now, and its power.

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A lot of ‘self help’ books and articles feed on this idea that happiness is something that can be found outside of oneself. To me these articles are built on the presumption that if you only had something else you didn’t already have now then yes you would be happy, so let me teach you how to get it…

There is nothing wrong with getting or achieving things, but we must be clear on the reason why we are doing what we are doing in order not to be disappointed when we are done.

I have started to understand the quest of happiness like the quest for balance. Everything in this universe is in a constant state of balance, the planets in their orbit are balanced by the sun, the waves by the moon, and our bodies are constantly searching for their homeostasis.

So might argue that we are happy when we are in a constant state of homeostasis, but I don’t think this is true. While it might feel good to have all our needs met, there is still something that spurs us to action, after a time just having all our needs met becomes boring. No matter what, we all have desires that spur us to action, no matter how “good” we have it we will always want more.

We will always want more. If this is true then it would seem like happiness is doomed to momentary relief while most of our life is unsatisfactory.

It seems like we can’t espace an unsatisfactory life because no matter what we achieve and no matter where we go we will still just want more. This reminds me of the first nobel truth in Buddhism: Life is dukkha. Dukkha is a pali term that is usually translated as suffering, but this translation really misses the point. The better translation for Dukkha is unsatisfactory. So the first nobel truth becomes: life is inherently unsatisfactory.

And it is, normally. Life can be this constant chase for happiness that never actually leaves us happy. More time is spent chasing happiness and fighting for happiness than is spent in actual happiness, we are constantly searching for more.

I think its human nature to always want more; which is to say its human nature to have needs and desires. Any attempt to subjugate our desires just leads to more unconsciousness and suffering.

So then what do we do? Can we ever be happy? No, I don’t think we can be happy in the way most people think of happiness.

The true happiness we are all searching for isn’t that transitory happiness that we get every once and awhile when we achieve something. True happiness isn’t dependent on anything. Thats the joy. Thats the bliss of being.

True happiness is already. True happiness is now, its not dependent on anything. Its the underlying fabric of this moment. Beyond thoughts, feelings, beyond it all, at the base, at the core of experience lies true happiness. Its a wonderful place to dwell in, our true state.

True happiness never leaves us, even when we are struggling, even when we are hurt, even we are momentarily superficially happy, true happiness underlies all experience in this moment.

So when we begin to realize true happiness we start to see that while our actions are usually motivated out of a desire for superficial happiness we become OK with that. In fact we just start to become OK with life. We know that we desire, and we are OK with that. The key isn’t on what desires we have, or how quickly we manifest our desires, or our emotions or our thoughts or anything like that. All that becomes like the sound of children playing outside. True happiness is found and effortlessly sustained in this moment, without needing to do anything, it is.

When we are truly happy we know why we are doing what we are doing. We are not deluded as much anymore. Our life is intrinsically happy no matter what happens, we are happy, even if we don’t have the emotion of happiness, we are happy.

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I wasn’t going to write about this until someone mentioned in passing tonight that I was dogmatic about my diet, so I want to talk about that general theme of being dogmatic.

To quickly give my thoughts on nutrition while we are on the topic; I believe that nutrition is a pseudo-science at best, no one can tell you what is “best” and I believe that no one can ever know what is best for you. Only you can know what is best for you.

I am for self investigation, for observation, and deductions based on your own proven experience, especially in the realms of nutrition. Here is a great youtube video my friend and housemate did that explains it well: The Raw Food Diet Exposed

But what about this idea of being dogmatic, of being so tightly coupled to your ideology that you fail to see any other ways of doing something. Dogmatism leads to fanaticism which is basically a way of quickly discrediting all other conclusions on the topic, no matter what.

Dogmatism as we can all agree, historically, doesn’t lead us to good places. It leads to things like eugenics, and religious fundamentalist wars. At its core dogmatism is dualistic, its inherently us vs them. “Us” who are somehow right, and “them” who are somehow wrong.

There have been countless essays on why fundamentalism or dogmatism should be avoided, and interestingly enough there have been countless essays on why dogmatic fundamentalism should be embraced.

Contrary to how this blog might be going, I do not advocate for or against dogmatism. To take either side would fall into the same dualistic whole from which the “problem” of dogmatism arises.

I am reminded of a quote by Einstein:

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

We can not solve this problem of dogmatism by arguing for or against one or the other, that in itself quickly turns dogmatic.

To me there is no one train of thought, there is no one logic, there is no one way, no one book, etc, that can encapsulate the Truth.

“The Tao that can be spoken is not the Tao.”

Everyone has their own truths, everyone has their own experiences. All routes are correct and all routes are incorrect. This is not because there can be no Correct. Correct does not exist, yet it does exist at the same time.

In sum I am trying to show that truth is relative. Dogma might be correct for a time, it might be helpful, and for a time it might not be helpful. It even might be helpful to follow some other contradictory dogma, for a time. This is the world that we live in seemingly full of contradiction the moment you try and define Truth.

Really there is no use to try and argue for one point or another. Sometimes your point will be correct and sometimes it will not. You can get all fanatical about any argument but its not going to last long, truth just can’t be defined like that.

So lets realize the nature of our own fanaticism, our own dogma, our own beliefs that we all hold. Fundamentally, all our beliefs are and can never be the whole truth.

All truths that can be explained are all partial truths. The key is just to keep that in mind.

Yes we can experience the full truth, in fact we are experiencing truth RIGHT NOW. Right now, the real moment of power, is where the only real truth resides. Dwell there. Really the issue only comes up when we try and talk about the truth, or write about it, or somehow encapsulate it. You must experience it, we can only point to it, and we will point in a hundred thousand different ways, forever, pointing at that which is here and now.

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The awareness that I talk about is what you experience your emotions in, what you experience your thoughts in, and what you experience all your experience in, it is beingness itself.

To remember that behind all of the things that we define ourself as, that we think “make us up.” Behind all of the things that we experience and label as ME, like thoughts of being someone specific, or even emotions of happiness or sadness, BEHIND and THROUGHOUT all of these things rests a fundamental awareness that is ever present. To remember this, to remember that there is actually an awareness that holds our thoughts, feelings, and everything that we experience, is when a deep understanding and truth is revealed, this can not be described easily, or completely, it is best if it is experienced.

Its funny to ask someone to experience this state, because that seems to imply that they are not already experiencing it now, yet they are.

When the activity of our mind, or the feelings of our body, or our sense perceptions start to become identified as who you are, a duality is created, with duality happiness and suffering result.

The beautiful, amazing, awe inspiring thing about reality is that for duality to exist, it must exist in pure singularity, and in pure singularity there is such a deep awe inspiring joy and peace I cry in gratitude in realization that it is the most fundamental.

If this is all to abstract let me explain through analogy: Think of our thoughts, our emotions, our sense perceptions as the crayons in a coloring box, for us to begin to draw with the colors we must have a blank peace of paper. As we color on the paper it is as if we are experiencing life, we are having this emotion, or that thought, or these sense perceptions. As life goes by and our colors have filled up the whole paper we begin to forget what even makes all this coloring possible in the first place, it is the paper underneath. Underneath the colors there is a paper that holds all that is completely open and always present no matter what colors are there. This paper is like our awareness, our true beingeness, in which everything that we experience happens in through, and around.

To connect with our deep sense of awareness brings joy. It brings us so much peace and joy because it is whole, it is complete. It is fulfilling. It is what we most deeply want and strive for. It is fulfilling beyond words. It feels like home… You know how sometimes when you have been gone awhile and you get back home you feel this warm fuzzy feeling, you feel safe, connected, back again, its kinda like that, only more profoundly life altering.

Whats so amazing is that this state is always with us, we don’t even have to go looking for it. Its always with us. Our deepest home is ever present, behind all our experiences, to remember the paper under the colors, and to experience this deep awareness under it all, we are happy. We are home.

Enjoy.

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