“Happiness is the joy we feel when striving for our potential.”
This is how the ancient Greeks defined happiness.
Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday. Yep, I watch it. All the enlightenment you could ever want shoved between commercials selling us mind-numbing drugs. Circle of life….you too can achieve happiness right after this next sponsored announcement.
It has always amazed me that we cannot master the teachings that are 5,000 years old. The answers to most, if not all, of life's problems have been given to us from our ancestors, repeatedly. Yet we search for new answers to old problems in which the answers have already been given to us.
With deep thoughts I ponder this cosmic question “Why can we not get it right?” Blame God or the Devil or the lack of both; could it be that our only guidance is the two pound muscle that is placed in the dark empty cavern commonly known as our skull. Isn't it weird that the most powerful thing in the universe never even gets to feel the wind or see the sun? A life of blackness floating in goo projecting electrical impulses that creates thoughts that it will never get to see.
This is our guiding light? Two pounds drowning in cerebrospinal fluid trying to forget that it was given all the answers in the first place. Do you ever think that God purposely forgot that s/he was God just so s/he could ride a roller coaster and experience it for the very first time?
Experience it for the very first time? There must be some wisdom in that sentence
The answer to everything is in experiencing this very moment and surrendering to it.
This sentence came to me after sitting on a meditation cushion for 25 minutes earlier that day. I wish I could say it arose from within my consciousness or that the universe split itself in two and handed me this divine wisdom but, alas, it came from a tribe elder that sat across the room from me drinking coffee and rubbing his bald head. I asked a question and he gave me the answer from within his own personal experience.
The reason we cannot experience happiness is: because we are used to being told what happiness is instead of discovering our own potential for ourselves.
The tribe elder pontificates: This is the 5,000 year old mistake that we keep making. Somebody somewhere thinks that they have got it right and then they organize their beliefs, then proceed to spread it to the masses. Life is not about being told, it is about doing. Organizing anything and everything, no matter how well intended, will become bastardized over time (simple examples include religion, politics, academics...etc.) They all share cult thinking. Sometimes it maybe good to be in a cult but unfortunately you never get to experience an original thought.
Practice, surrender, sit down and shut up, then repeat…this is the one hand clapping as the other hand slaps your original face. The face you had before your parents were born, the face you had before the stars were placed in the sky.
Happiness is this moment. Go discover it.
Go manifest a universe.
