Finding Deep Happiness Now
There is actually an awareness, a beingness that is behind the activity of the mind. That beingness is ever present, and to remember our ever present connectedness to this awareness brings a tremendous amount of peace.
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.
Seems like what an existentialist would say, but a further insight behind the reasoning of true happiness I believe Nietzsche's and Sartre's argument is sound in concluding true happiness. For instance, Nietzsche said that emotion is an intrinsic part of our being. We ought to experience our emotions and use it instrumentally to achieve our goals. Our life is comprised of experiences and emotions that sets a path/goal as a means to an end of our being. Sartre would say that to attain true happiness we must also struggle and suffer through sadness, anxiety, and or anger. Experience is connected to emotions, so in reality our experiences are limited in joy and happiness but rather filled with anxiety. To fully establish ones concept of being and state of happiness, one ought to embody both good and bad experiences/emotions. True happiness is a euphemistic saying of coping and overcoming ones sadness, anger, and anxiety.
Indeed, emotions are powerful and play a huge role in being human.My post above was not really about emotions but rather states of being. In my post I wanted to point out a state of being, or an awareness in which all emotion is experienced. To experience this space brings a state of being which is extremely pleasant, in a profound life changing way.
I understand that you conclude the states of being on a spiritual level. But common people usually do not surpass their consciousness and attain spiritual or yet even the metaphysical state of being. I find it arbitrary and illusional to believe the state of happiness as ever present and always with us without premises. So I wanted to provide more of a 'causation' rather than a 'predetermined' point of view by emphasizing the manifestation of the state of being by referencing Nietzsche's and Sartre's beliefs on experiences and emotions which then bridges ones consciousness, thoughts, actions, and instincts with a higher state of being, ultimately leading to your conclusion of happiness and peace as a universal state of being.
"I find it arbitrary and illusional to believe the state of happiness as ever present and always with us without premises."I completely understand, intellectually it does seem arbitrary. I take that the state of pure happiness underlies all experience as an axiom in my logic because it is my experience. I did not really explain why one should intellectually believe that this state actually exists in my post. In my post above I was not trying to argue for it intellectually, I was trying to point toward it experientialy, so that you, or anyone, could experience it and then for yourself believe it or not.I would much rather just point people to experiences than debate the validity of them. My goal here is that maybe I can write something, or do something, or say something, that will inspire someone to experience this state, this is my desire.
I hope you understand that I argue and provide insights for the sole purpose of an argument and insight itself, none of my arguments or insights are on a personal level. I really appreciate and respect your notes for it provides philosophical aspects of life that I myself and others can relate to; but in my case I find it difficult not to question the soundness of your conclusions, I question not out of scrutiny but for enlightenment. I thank you for your patience and you bearing along with me on questioning your premises and challenging your conclusions.I command you to continue writing philosophical notes, sharing your experiences, providing spiritual guidance for others, and at the same time stimulating my dormant mind.