Happy?

 I suppose if we don't think about it...we are happy.

Kim Eng

Are you happy? Or are you so busy thinking about not being happy that you do not realize you are happy? Are you so busy  filling the space that you are with thinking and doing that you forget you are that space? 

Do you see yourself as a seperate little entity with lots of problems? Despite my practice and my 'knowing better' I still see myself in that way a little too often. Sigh

I asked D. this question yesterday: "Why do I feel I have problems?  Why do these things bother me...this human ... when I am just a speck of dust having an amazing opportunity to explore a beautiful and colorful speck of dust in an infinite universe? "

He just looked at me strangely and shrugged his shoulders. And I felt myself having a problem with him and his reaction to my question. lol

Kim Eng in her "Who am I" meditation video says, "I suppose if we don't think about it...we are happy." 

I am often  too busy thinking about problems to realize that I am happy. What about you? And I have had a committed spiritual practice for many, many years. 

Michael A. Singer reminds us in the below linked podcast :

It is not about how to solve problems...it is all about why do I have them.

Why then do we have this experience of focusing so much on "problems" and our so called suffering?

Well first, what is suffering? Suffering means you are not completely at peace and content...the cause of suffering is desire/preferences

It takes two things to suffer...it takes the world unfolding the way it does and it takes you who desire and prefer it to be different than it is...

We are not okay and that decides what we are going to do in this lifetime. Like the little bird on the lower branches in the story I shared yesterday, we are always jumping around trying to feel better. We are always attempting to escape the moment we are in, not completely satisfied with it because it is not "fixing" what is not okay inside us. We are always trying to decide what will make us happy and what will make us okay inside. We miss our entire life when we do that.

There is a higher way to live.  That higher technique involves accepting, appreciating, respecting, and honoring reality as we clean out the mess inside that prevents us from being open to it all. 

Hmmm!

All is well in my world. 

Kim Eng/Eckhart Tolle (2020) "Who Am I" Guided Meditation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5dlmylOZk

Michael A. Singer/Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True. ( January 13, 2025) Why We Suffer: a Spiritual Persepctive on Problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WuETyBIpY8