Saturday July 9, 2005
Day 5 of abstinece started out great, some yoga, some reading and some green tea. The book is Dan Brown's Deception Point. It's very good. He's the same guy that wrote the DiVinci Code that's been on the bestseller list forever.
Here's a passage from Steve Ross of the yoga show Inhale on the Oxygen Network:
When the mind becomes quiet happiness bubbles up. If you look at most of the times in your life -- actually all of them -- when you've experienced true happiness. If even only for a moment it's because the mind stopped. For example, if you meet a relative or a friend you haven't seen in years, when you hug them the mind just stops, and so there's happiness. Or if you're surfing and you're in that perfect place in the wave, the mind stops and you're happy. When the mind gets quiet your inherent happiness bubbles up. So it's not those things, it's not surfing, it's not relatives. it's not partners, cars and homes and all that stuff, that isn't what makes you happy it's when your desire stops. When your desire is either fulfilled or transcended for a moment then your true nature, which is already happy bubbles up. So rather than trying to find it in a million different ways in the world. the Yogis suggest you go directly to it. That it's inside you. It's not out there somewhere. So no amount of chasing it in the world will ever amount to any lasting happiness. It just won't. Don't take my word for it. Just test it for yourself. Look in your own experience. If you observe your own life you'll notice happiness comes, happiness goes. But if you want it to remain more constant what you need to do is let go of running after it where it isn't which is outside of yourself. That's what the Yogis say. How do they know? Because they've done it. But test it for yourself. Just contemplate the possibility that all the happiness you could ever want is inside you. You not meaning your body, All creation is inside you. All bodies are inside you. It's a vast subject and understanding intellectually is not enough. It has to be experienced.
--Namaste
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