It’s... Happiness. Where is Happiness? How to find Happiness? Will Happiness be the result of our effort? Could it be by effort that we can obtain Happiness? Actually, does anyone know what Happiness is?
Someone may say: “If you make an effort, you will get Happiness.” But will this be true? Will Happiness be the result of effort and struggle? Will it result when we fight to reach it? Will it solve inner issues? And psychological issues in us… will it be like solving a problem on paper, a mathematical problem?
To solve an engineering problem, an architectural problem, or a problem at some technical level, we do need a certain amount of effort. I’d say focus, discipline, and effort. To obtain a certain result at this level, this is needed.
But here, psychologically, you are living, right now, in anxiety, depression, or in some frame of unhappiness. That unhappiness is psychological, internal. The existential emptiness, the pain of loneliness, the lack of love, of what we call love, anyway... Will we be able to solve a problem like this at this level – at the level of effort, of struggle? Is this the level at which we solve a problem like this?
Have you ever tried, by effort, to get rid of, for example, thoughts? Can we get rid of thoughts by effort?
If you have a volume of thoughts and feelings creating internal states in you, like those we just talked about, will you, by effort, be able to break it? What kind of effort can be used psychologically, and what kind of struggle can be used psychologically to overcome fear or any of those frames that we’ve just presented? How is it possible to get rid of it? Is it through effort, through struggle?
It’s clearly not possible! We want it by effort, but effort actually…and struggle, actually, adds more problems, dilemmas, conflict, contradiction, more suffering.
If you try to get rid of thoughts… Try it! When there’s a thought and you inattentively engage with it, which is what we’ve been doing, that single thought multiplies. As if it “gives birth.” After that, others appear, and more, and more, and they multiply.
Our inner states are here and now to be seen. We approach these states as we approach a problem. Unlike a math problem, in which you use knowledge, experience, discipline, focus, and effort; here, a psychological problem… we have to apply ourselves to it in a new way, in a different way. We need to approach the problem by just looking at it.
A tip for you, exactly where you have failed to deal with frames of psychological suffering: you have failed in the sense of always looking for a way to lessen the intensity of that pain, running away from it, and trying to find a solution. What you can get is, in fact, to find a way or some form of escape. These problems have no solution.
Yes, that’s what you heard! The attempt to go in search of a solution to anxiety, depression, boredom, some form of anguish, guilt, remorse... the very movement of seeking a solution strengthens the state itself, the condition itself.
And here I am saying: it’s possible to discover the illusion of the frame, the end of the frame, not the solution since we are not facing a mathematical problem, we are before a psychological problem. And psychological problems... we don't approach them looking for a solution, in a movement of search, because this search is, in reality, a movement of escape or running away. Neither by this search, by effort, nor fighting...
There are 3 things people do with psychological suffering: the search for a solution; second, the effort, some level of effort to become different from what we are here and now. So, there’s an effort to break away from that – that’s the second one, and the third is the fight.
People ask, “What do I do? How to win? How to overcome fear? How to overcome anxiety? How to overcome depression?” These expressions are even understandable but see this very clearly. As we are not dealing with a problem we can put an end to by trying to solve it, trying to overcome it, or making an effort to do something about it…it’s no use. This is not a mathematical problem, an engineering problem, or an architectural problem, this is not a technical problem; it’s a psychological problem.
The real way to approach this is to understand what the problem is. Where is the problem? And we can only do that when we approach it, not when we try to do something like solving, fighting, or striving to win, to go against it.
Here, we approach… Get closer to it! Look at what’s going on inside you and realize what those thoughts are, those feelings, emotions, whatever is arising here and now. That’s the problem for you to approach. Don't strive or fight… approach it! You approach sadness and loneliness, you approach the state.
It’s important that you also understand this: approaching means looking. When we give it a name and try to fit it into a system, we are already trying to find a solution for it again.
Here, I want to invite you to just approach the state itself. And don't get involved in naming, but rather in observing what is going on: the thought, the feeling, the emotion, the sensation… to look at that! And looking at that is only possible when you don't have an idea, a conclusion, or a concept about it.
This is where we come across the real difficulty because when we approach it, we already want to do something. This “me,” this “I,” because of the pain it’s experiencing, wants to get rid of it, wants to do something. When this occurs, there’s this sense of separateness between you – the one who feels – and what is there showing itself. Between this “I” and this experience, we have the sense of separateness, the sense of duality.
The Vision of the Truth about your Being is that your Being is One with Everything. This is straight from Advaita Vedanta. So, back in the Vedas, we have, in Advaita Vedanta, the clear presentation that your Being is One with Everything. This is your Being.
It’s just the sense of “I” separating itself from the experience, sustaining duality. It sustains a false center, an illusory identity, resisting what is shown here and now. And when that happens, the frame is sustained, the situation is sustained, the fear is sustained, the anxiety is sustained, the depression is sustained, the loneliness is sustained, the pain is sustained, because there is this duality, there is this “me,” this “I,” fighting against what is shown. When that happens, you are not in that closeness, but rather in that resistance.
The resistance that is presented in this format that I just put to you, which is the attempt to get rid of, the attempt to fight, to resist through effort, to do something… when that is present, there is no closeness. Here, it’s to approach and stay with this.
When a thought arises, you watch it, you don't put an identity present; a feeling arises, you don't put it... just stay with it, watch it, and approach it. When you are present, in that direct contact, there’s understanding, there’s that understanding, there’s a perfect understanding of that sense of an “I” present in that feeling, then you see that duality. This “I” sustains the experience, it’s always this “I” that sustains the experience. It’s always the “I” that sustains unhappiness. Every frame of unhappiness present in your life is being sustained by the “me.”
Therefore, where is Happiness? How to find Happiness? This idea of going in search of this “thing” called Happiness... that’s what people have been doing.
Happiness isn’t out there, It isn’t in an external achievement, It isn’t in something that can fill you up and temporarily remove you from a frame of unhappiness. Happiness is present in your Being, as your True Consciousness, as your Real Consciousness, which is the Truth of God.
Here, I don’t refer to this egoic consciousness, this model of consciousness trapped within this cycle of duality, this movement of coming to be, of becoming, achieving, of getting rid of. That’s a cycle.
The sense of “I” seeks and then wants to get rid of, and then searches again; then it wants to get rid of it. This model of achieving, of coming to be, becoming, obtaining, accomplishing, and getting rid of, is within this model of egocentrism, of egocentric activity, of this very egoic consciousness, of this mental consciousness. Your Real Consciousness is the Nature of God. That’s where Happiness is, that’s where your Being is, the Truth of your Divine Nature.
Here on our channel, we have an extensive playlist talking about Self-Awareness and the True Practical Meditation, in addition to another playlist talking about the result of this, which is the Awakening of that Power you carry within yourself, which ends this psychological condition of suffering.
So, it’s not about a solution to unhappiness, it’s about the end of the illusion, the end of the illusion of unhappiness – and, here, I refer to all conditions, to all forms of pathologies, of psychological unhappiness – when that sense of “I,” of “ego,” of “me,” dissolves, disappears. That’s the end of the sense of “I” and therefore the end of this illusion, the end of this illusion that unhappiness is a reality.
Happiness is the Nature of Being, Happiness is the Nature of Consciousness. This is the Truth about who You are, or rather about What You truly are.
This is the subject we deal with. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel... I want to remind you: we have online and also face-to-face meetings, where we are working on this together with those who approach. Ok?
If that makes sense, we can work it out together. Ok?
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