Eternal Happiness
Every life is different – fish, animals, insects – but they all have something the same. They all search for happiness. For whatever they think will lead them to happiness. Give them pleasure, and make them feel content. Also to avoid suffering. Every life all have a chance to experience suffering – when they don’t get food, that why they concentrate so much to hunt, when they don’t get it their upset. It’s not just humans, it’s all the life. Underneath, inside the intention, where it comes from is consciousness – try to understand where happiness is and to avoid suffering.
But in their own way, their own level – they search but they only find it for a temporary time. And for that reason their true spirits never really develop successfully. The longer they live with temporary happiness as a result the insecurity with life becomes deeper, because your heart is always insecure.
So to understand what is eternal happiness and what is eternal wisdom if you don’t reach that point your heart will always live with fear. For some people they never get away, not even for short time. Some people you know have fallen into suffering so deep they will never get away from it. The wrong direction – physical, mental, emotional suffering. They always worry or feel pain.
If we don’t understand spirit direction then that might happen to you. We do have to find a right direction and right goal for yourself – your deepest responsibility for your life. And the consciousness live in a wise awareness power, joy power, they start able to know the finest detail to get away from suffering. Precise detail complete view of the way to discover joyful. And they reach to that level their compassion appear, they see others in fear and suffering and then they write down the system the path how they reach to that layer, then they separate those ideas into many different systems, because different people cannot match that system. So they start to divide it as they become more aware of different people – what system is suitable for them and then explaining the way to raise their consciousness level to awareness ability, their life to reach the right direction, every life wants to avoid suffering and want to find true happiness. When everyone is living in the moment they are truly happy. You actually don’t have anything to search for you are content and joy. You don’t have any, worry for the future, no stress from the past, not nervous, just assure, just joyful.
You think that everyone wants to enjoy life and be happy so the power should be natural. No there is natural potential but the opposite happens. Like a papaya seed, put in dirt have potential. That potential to grow, but if you never feel good from it, it will never grow and have sweet papaya fruit. So you all have potential top reach complete wisdom and understand how to live life and enjoy life properly and how to avoid suffering, make life in every second valuable and full of joy, but that potential if you don’t give it enough wisdom water or fertilizer of care, enough warm joyful heart and spend time free from all stupid and negative things, and take care of your heart living in every moment then the potential seed you will never reach.
You can’t wait for it, it will not come
You can’t search for it, you will not get it
You have to learn to be aware of it.
Once you are aware of it, you start to follow what you are aware and develop it and live in that power. That power is not outside, you cannot grab it and nobody can give to you. That power, that wisdom inside you to be calm, has innocent child heart full of innocent way of joyful, that’s why I’m happy that Noah is in the trip. Child-heart is a beautiful thing. Timpig said to me when he sat next to me, he said it’s so nice being a child and purely enjoying life. But also Noah a lot of the time make a lot of mistakes, hit his heard, cry owey owey, that power,, they actually don’t have control of themselves though wisdom, the other part is develop wisdom. Keep your heart young and like a pure happy child. Develop your mind, bright and observing from as many angles as possible, without ego and being humble you wisdom will develop more and more. Like a Wiseman – doesn’t mean just man just old saying here.
So when you have both innocent pure happy playful heart and wise mature wisdom without ego awareness of every angle in every situation, both powers join together then it will happen. It is your power that is going to create happiness and joy and the positive character and warmness and friendly and fun because you don’t have to go looking for it you’re going to create it. Nobody can give to you because you are going to shine to be that power. Nobody can take it away from you either. So in life has tries a lot of time to give both powers. I’m very impressed by the people in the Dao fit team who have learnt many years with me their child heart is really strong, sometimes too strong. So once they get too wild it’s like a wild monkey I want to tell them to calm down and then they start creating trouble for themselves. The other side is through learning Taiji and Chi Gong they start to learn what is elegant to learn elegance is a feeling in your body language, feeling in your facial expression, in your heart, your intention and observation and calmness. In your heart, you feel kindness, no greedy no ambition to make you go, go, when you are able to clean out all the negative part of this greedy ambitious and then keep all the good parts, calmness and friendliness, then patience appears.
Patience many people think about the wrong way, they think about I have to forbear it. Forbear is bad, something that you don’t want but you have to handle it. Most people in your life have experienced forbear it and you really feel terrible it. .. Red bull story… Seanpig story
Because we don’t understand the right system, right direction and right goals, or the essence of life – we get suffering – life is not supposed to have suffering – we create our own suffering – if Seanpig had a habit or bringing a tissue then there would not be suffering. So Buddhism says life has suffering not life is suffering. Whatever you have you can let go. Seanpig is Seanpig, so he cannot let that go. Through wisdom, through compassion, through understanding the essence, function and goal of life we can develop to get away from suffering.
One hand to refuse all the blindness, other hand open heart to develop wisdom and compassion.
Whatever suffering other people have, you can learn from it too – from stubbing your toe, to overtraining, to stomach problems, overeating, not bringing toilet paper – you can use it to reduce or avoid your own suffering.
Learn harmony power – quality is important, good intention quality is where the main happiness comes from our group.
Transcribed from a talk on the 25th of August, 2011 in Taiwan.