Beyond the Mind

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I sincerely hope you do, although if you are like most people I suspect bliss is more of a distant stranger that a permanent roommate.  Many spiritual teachings say it is the very pursuit of happiness itself and the avoiding of pain that causes our unhappiness in the first place.  It’s interesting, that phrase, “the pursuit of happiness” is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence.  I don’t know about you but I’d rather be a “happiness haver” than a “happiness pursuer”.   Reminds me of the term “spiritual seeker”, people say that about themselves with a strange kind of pride sometimes.  Yet, I’d rather be a spiritual finder than seeker any day of the week.

I think it’s ok to not take the teachings too literally, it’s ok to pursue happiness, but I say BE SMART about it.  Depending on your level of realization, sometimes we just have to trust those wiser than us.  Maybe the great masters like Buddha or Jesus had something worthwhile to say?  Maybe we should take some of their advice to heart.   Things like “Happiness is found within” or “True Happiness has no cause, has nothing to do with how much money you have or how you look”, etc…  If these kinds of ideas are true, then why are we constantly looking outside ourselves for happiness?  We aren’t being smart about it, that’s why.  They say we are all one, that bliss comes from helping others, that it is this obsession with ourselves that causes the suffering.   Do we act that way in our own lives or are we constantly worrying about this little island called me?

I bring this up because I think there would be a lot more BLISS around if people turned their gaze inward.  But many are afraid, there’s a lot of “stuff” in there, stuff we don’t want to deal with or look at.  God is within you, they say.  Do we trust that?  Hell no, I don’t see God in there, I see a lots of issues, fears and grief and all kinds of crap!   I want to suggest we start to embrace our humanness, our messiness, our imperfectness.  This will aid us in our excavation process.  Trust me, you WILL arrive at the pay dirt, you will see what the great teachers have been saying, if you would only begin the journey.

This from a poem I wrote called 

Dawn 

My heart rises, like a thousand mystical sunrises on the ocean of being, yours is next, friend…

Bliss to All

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