buddhasal:
How can you be happy if you don’t know what unhappy is? For happiness to exist unhappiness and discontent must exist. So there is some good in unhappiness.
Me:
It´s a very tricky thing:
“For happiness to exist unhappiness and discontent must exist. So there is some good in unhappiness”, you say.
Let´s explore this!
From the perspective of duality you are right. We all know what discontent and unhappiness is, that´s for sure.
The point is – as I emphasised before – once you feel discontent and misfortune you automatically strive for “happiness”. As long as dissatisfaction is the starting point of our journey to wellness, we will attract and encounter nothing but deceit and more displeasure. Can you see this?
What else can we find other than unhappiness when unhappy?
In this sense, the troublesome pursuit of happiness becomes vanity and hypocrisy…yes, imposture…- Ego craving for pleasure, eventually ego vehemently trying to escape its inherent predicament – conflict and suffering.
In this sense, the chasing of happiness becomes “important”…
Happiness becomes thus a mere futile projection, an inane and trivially stupid pursuance
for the illusion of self-aggrandisement.
Just look around at out present age and check for yourself if what I say is right…
UNHAPPY TRYING TO BE HAPPY!
Witness what dire and fatal outcome has this very quest for happiness for ourselves
and everything around us.
Now: Is happiness a projection?… An outcome, something to look or strive for?
Does happiness ever go hand in hand with discontent and unhappiness?
Is happiness to be found at the level of duality?
Does the sense of real wellness and felicity belong to “the known”?…
How can something “known”, ever become worthwhile having…?
How can effort and repetition equate well-being…?
Bottom line:
Happiness is the beloved and distinguished guest who comes uninvited the moment
we fully realize the vanity and hopelessness of the endeavour to be happy.
http://julienmatei.com/2012/12/08/think-about-this/
