Chapter 3 The role of happiness in our lives

In the moment of seeing the sunset you are not happy, you are just seeing something wonderful, full of light and color and depth.When you leave and come back into your life, your mind says, "That was amazing, I wish I could have this experience again." So, it is the mind that perpetuates the joy. In order to discover anything human, don't we need to start from some quality of freedom? If we explore a problem as complex as love, we must get rid of our peculiar prejudices, personal i expectations - whether Victorian or modern.If we can, we should let it all go for inquiry, otherwise we get distracted and we waste energy affirming or arguing because of our particular situation.After discussing the question of "what is love," can we see the importance, meaning, and depth of finding out what the word does or doesn't convey? Shouldn't we start by seeing if we can get the mind to learn from various Liberation from different conclusions of the word? Liberation from those deep-rooted prejudices, discriminations and conclusions, maybe? Because I think we have to have very sharp minds when discussing together what love is.And when you have opinions, judgments, or ideas about how love should or shouldn't be, you don't have a beautiful and clear mind.In order to examine the mind, all our explorations will have a beautiful and clear mind.In order to examine the mind, all our explorations must begin with a sense of freedom—not freedom from something, but the quality of freedom, the ability to see, to observe, to see what is.Later, you can come back to your prejudices, your idiosyncratic vanities and conclusions, but can we put all that aside for now and keep this freedom of inquiry?

Several things are interrelated: sex, jealousy, loneliness, belonging, fellowship, great pleasure, and fear.Isn’t it all about that word? Can we start with the question of joy? Because it plays a big part in love.Most religions are derogatory because they think that a person who is indulging in sensual pleasures cannot possibly know what truth is, what is God, what is love, what is the supreme being.This is the most important canon in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism.When we ask what love is, we must be aware of the traditional conditioning that leads to various forms of repression—Victorian and modern—perhaps permissive jouissance.

Happiness plays a very important role in our life.If you talk to any so-called educated, intelligent, religious people -- I wouldn't call them religious, but others do -- you know that abstinence is one of their big problems.You might think that these are completely irrelevant, that abstinence has no place in the modern world, and that it should be put aside.I would feel sorry because knowing what abstinence is is one of the problems.To know what love is, it must be explored with a broad and deep heart, not just a verbal opinion.Why does pleasure play such an important role in our lives? I'm not saying it's right or wrong, we're exploring, and the jury is still out on whether we should have sexual pleasure or not.Why does pleasure play such an important role in our lives? It is one of our chief desires, but why does it take on such a wonderful importance? Not only in the Western world, where it is so loud and vulgar, but also in the Eastern world of.It's one of our main problems.Why? Religion - so-called religion - those priests demeaned it.If you are seeking God, they say, you must take a vow of abstinence.I knew an Indian monk who was a very serious man, learned and wise.At fifteen or sixteen he renounced the world and took a vow of celibacy.When he was older—I met him when he was about forty—he gave up those vows and got married.He lived in hell for a while because Indian culture considers people who break their vows to be terrible.He was ostracized and had a really miserable time.But this is the state of mind of most people.Why is sex so wonderfully important?

This is the problem with all porn books.Allows you complete freedom to read, publish, and express what you like, free from repression.You know that's what the world does.What does this have to do with love? What do love, sex, pleasure and abstinence mean? Please don't forget this very important word and its meaning - leading to a life of abstinence.Let's find out why people give sex such an important place in their lives throughout their lives, and why they are so against it.I don't know how we're going to answer that. Isn't there an element in sexual activity that is total freedom? Intellectually we imitate, we don't create, second-hand or third-hand experience; we repeat—repeat what other people say, and we have only a little thought.So, we don't have initiative, creativity, energy and freedom, and emotionally, we don't have passion or deep interest.We may have enthusiasm, but it fades quickly; there is no sustained enthusiasm, and life is somewhat mechanical, repeating the same thing every day.Since life is mechanical, intellectual, technical, and somewhat emotionally repetitive, this special activity naturally becomes very important.If there were freedom intellectually and passions in man, then sex would have its own place and would not be so important.We will not give it such a great significance, try to discover Nirvana NB231 through sex, or think that through sex, we can have a complete union with human beings.You know, the things we hope to discover through sex!

So, can our minds find freedom? Can our minds be very active, lucid, and sentient? — not from other people, from philosophers, psychologists, and so-called spiritual teachers, who simply lack spirituality.Sex also has its place when it has free, deep, passionate qualities.And what is abstinence? Does abstinence have any place in our lives? What is the definition of "abstinence"? Not just in the dictionary sense, but in its deep meaning.What does it mean to have a totally ascetic mind? I think we should explore it.Maybe that's what's more important. If anyone is conscious of all the operations of the mind--when the observer contemplates the mind, he is discriminated against, causing conflict between the observer and the observed--does he not see the impressions that are continually formed, and the various pleasures, pleasures, Memories of misfortunes, accidents, insults, and all kinds of impressions, influences, and stresses? These things fill our hearts.Think about sex, picture it, imagine it, sustain that aroused emotion, and get stimulated.Such a mind is not an ascetic mind.An ascetic mind is a mind completely devoid of images, without impressions, that is an ascetic mind.And the heart will always be pure. "Innocence" means a heart that has not been hurt - or hurt others, it cannot hurt others, so it cannot be hurt by others, but it is still very vulnerable.Such a mind is a pure mind.But those who take vows of celibacy are not pure at all; they are endlessly at war with themselves.I know all kinds of monks in the East and West are tortured in search of God, and their hearts are twisted and tortured.

These are all about happiness.Where is the relationship between love and happiness? What is the relationship between the pursuit of happiness and love? On the surface, they are one.Our virtue is based on pleasure, and our morality is based on pleasure.We think you can get it through sacrifice - which will give you joy! - or resistance, which may give you the joy of accomplishing things.If there is such a thing between pleasure and love, where is the line? Can the two be one, intertwined? Or have they always been separate? Some say, "Love God, that love has nothing to do with profane love ’” You know these aren’t just centuries of problems, they’ve been around since the beginning of time.And where is the line that separates the two, or is there no line? This is not the other, and if we're after happiness, like most people - in the name of God, in the name of peace, in the name of social reform in the name of love—and what is the place of love in these pursuits?

So those questions have to be drilled down: What are pleasure, pleasure, and joy? Is blessing related to pleasure? Don't say yes or no, let's find out.Look at the beautiful trees, the clouds, the water, the sunset, the endless sky, the faces of men, women and children.It is a great pleasure to be intoxicated with things of true beauty, an appreciation of the sublime, the noble, the lucid, and the lovely.When you deny happiness, you deny all perception of beauty.Religion just rejects it.Recently I heard that in the western world, landscape painting has entered the field of religious painting, but in China and the East, landscape painting and trees have always been considered noble and religious.

Why does the mind seek pleasure? It is not a question of right or wrong, but what is the mechanism of this pleasure principle? If you say you agree or disagree, then we are lost, but if we find out together what the principle is, happy mechanism, then maybe we will know what true enjoyment is.And what are joy and blessing, and which one includes ecstasy? Is ecstasy related to joy? Can joy be turned into joy? What is the mechanism of pleasure? Why does the mind go after it? You cannot be unconscious—see a beautiful house, or the sun shining on a lovely green field, or in the vast desert, not a single green grass, and the vast Sky.You can't avoid looking at it, and seeing is a joy, a pleasure, isn't it? When you see a lovely face - not just a symmetrical face, but one that has depth, beauty, character, intelligence And the face of vitality - it's a surprise to see such a face, and once you perceive it, there is pleasure.When does pleasure become pleasure? You see Michelangelo's perfect statue, you look at it, it is the most outstanding work, not referring to the subject matter, but its quality.Seeing it produces great joy and pleasure.You walk away and the mind is thinking about it, thinking.What a perfect piece of work you think it is.When you see it, there is a sense of beauty, the quality of seeing wonderful things.Then thought will call it up, recall it, and remember your joy at seeing the statue.Then thought creates joy, it brings vitality and continuity, so when you see the statue, feeling arises.So thought is responsible for seeking happiness.This is not an argument I invented, as you can see.You've seen a beautiful sunset and you say, "I wish I could go back and see it again." You're not happy when you see a sunset, you're just seeing something wonderful, full of light and color and depth.When you leave and come back into your life, your mind says, "That was amazing, I wish I could have this experience again." So, it is the mind that perpetuates the joy.Is that the mechanism? And what happens then? You never see that sunset again—never again! Because the memory of seeing the sunset in the first place is still there, and you are always comparing it to it.Therefore, you can no longer see anything new.

So, someone asks: Can you look at a sunset, or a beautiful face, or your sexual experience, or anything, and see it and end it, no longer in your mind—whether it's extremely beautiful or deeply sad, or Physical or psychological pain? Can you see the beauty in it and end it all, utterly, without keeping it for the next day, next month, and into the future? If you keep it, the mind will play.To think is to store up that event, that pain, or something that gives you pleasure.So how does one not avoid, but become aware of this whole process, without allowing the mind to manipulate it? I "want" to see the sunset, I "want" to see those trees, they are full of the beauty of the earth.It's not my earth, your earth, it's our earth.It is not the earth of England, or of the Russians or of the Indians, but of ours; without boundaries, without ugly, barbaric wars, and the wickedness of men.I want to see everything.Have you ever seen a palm tree on a hill? How beautiful! Have you ever seen a tree in a field? I "want" to see it, I "want" to enjoy it, but I don't want to reduce it to something ugly Little joy.And thought reduces it.

How can the mind work when it needs to and not when it doesn't? Only when it is really aware of the whole mechanism of thought, the structure and nature of thought.It has to work that way—absolutely logical, healthy, not neurotic or personal—and it has no place.So, what is beauty and thought? Can the intellect feel beauty? It can describe, it can imitate, it can reproduce, it can do many things, but what is described is that which is not described.We can go on and on. So, when one understands the nature and principle of pleasure, what is love? Is love jealousy? Is love possession? woman.What a man does because he wants to pursue it is ambitious, greedy and jealous.He longs for status, prestige.His wife said, "Gosh, stop doing those boring things and live a different life." So there was a gap between the two of them—even though they were sleeping together.When there is ambition, when individuals pursue their private pleasures, is there love?

And what is love? Apparently, it is only possible when ambition, competition, wanting to be famous are no longer present.Our lives are just this: we want to be famous, to be successful, to be writers, artists, or something great.These are all we want.Does such a man or woman know what love is? That means, will there be love for a man who works for himself, not only in small places, but identified with the country, with God, with social activity, with a chain of beliefs? of course not.And this is the trap we fall into.Can we pay attention to the trap, really pay attention - not because of someone's description - pay attention to the trap and destroy it? That's the real revolution, not stupid to do it with bombs and social reforms.While social reform is necessary, the bomb is not. So, someone discovers or encounters it unconsciously, without intention, and this thing is called love, while others are not.It happens when we really understand the nature of pleasure and how thoughts can destroy what could be great joy.Joy cannot be transformed into happiness.Joy comes naturally, but the moment you say, "Oh! I'm happy," you're not happy anymore. What is love in human relationship? What is the place of love in human relationship? Is there any place? Yet we have to live together, we have to cooperate, we have to raise children together.Would a man with love send his son to war? That's your question.You have children, and your education is sending children to war, to kill.Please find out! What is love and what does it matter for our human existence? I think the question can only be answered in this way - really, not verbally or intellectually - when pleasure, thought, all When the principle, and this change is understood, you will find a completely different relationship. Bloomwood Park September 11, 1971