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Are you in pursuit of happiness? Can I take away one precious thing from you and you’ll still be happy? Can I burn some of your money in front of you and you’ll still be happy? You know the answer to these questions. Oh, I am sorry. You have lost your own nature and instead of finding it inward, you are trying to find it outward.
Ah. Don’t think happiness is some sort of a commodity or a destination or attainment. No. When you come to ease with everything around you, happiness is the natural state you will be in. If you believe peace is a goal, you will only rest in peace. Only when you are pleasant by your own nature, do you stop being in pursuit of happiness. Because happiness cannot be reached. Happiness is the way to be. Have you ever wondered why children are inherently happy? Have you noticed that children are inherently inquisitive and happy about everything and nothing? It’s because that’s their nature. Children do not have a constipated belief that you need lots of money or a luxury car to be happy.
If you believe you need to reach a place or reach a milestone to be happy, you’re wrong. Only when you are happy by your own nature, you can see life as it is. Else, you will always try to make up something. Making up is not worth it. Happiness or peace are not goals. They are the very fundamentals to experience life. Only when you’re happy and at peace can you see life the way it is. Or else, you will always make up things, knowingly or unknowingly.
When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in a way causing suffering to others all the time. For us to sit in a comfortable home, do you know how many worms, insects and other creatures have suffered? In pursuit of human happiness, every creature on this planet has gone through untold suffering. Ask the worms and the birds and the whales, and they will say human beings are greedy and demons! Just because one person in the family wants to achieve something, are you aware of the suffering others go through because of it? Are you aware of the suffering of your mother who has to cook for you just because you think cooking is a waste of time? Even if you are so focused on achieving something, you should not use others to fuel your aspirations.
This is what happens when people who have lost their own nature go in pursuit of happiness. Suffering to others. This comes from a sick state of being wherein you blindly think you’re a higher life – having ambitions and aspirations – and others are here to help you. If you ask me, I would say ambition and aspiration are just nothing other than constipation.
If you learn to include others as a part of yourself, your life will become an expression of joyfulness, not a pursuit of happiness. In pursuit of happiness, humans have ripped the planet apart but still are not any happier. It is time to stop and look, because all human experience happens within you, not outside of you. Love and hate happen within you. Thought and emotion happen within you. Happiness is also within you.
Unless something of true value happens within you, you cannot do anything of tremendous value to the world. Whatever you do, it is only your inner quality that you are going to spread. Whether you like it or not, that is the reality. If you are concerned about the world, the first thing you must do is transform yourself into a joyous being. If life throws a huge responsibility at your door, if you are still in pursuit – you only try to do whatever is feasible for you and whatever benefits you. Because the ones in pursuit will always do what suits their pursuit. Only a joyous and inherently happy person can do justice to whatever he/she is asked to do.
The prospective of Happiness, well explained, completely needed to make us start evaluating our scale of happiness, pursuit of happiness. Simple- just stay happy , but easier said than done. But worth trying and following. Wonderfully put into words.