The True Perfect Eternal Happiness
Pleasure, being happy, happiness and joy are different levels of satisfaction.
Pleasure is the excitement of the senses; a lot of pleasure forms the feeling of being happy.
In Chinese happy is defined as fast pleasure, it comes quickly and disappears quickly. Normally this fast pleasure is related to the sense of desire. The desire to eat, to have sex (to reproduce), to play, to own materials, even to control others.
This happy feeling is normally combined with a lot of hard work, and there is a negative side. If you have the desire to possess something or someone, you may be afraid that you will not get it or once you have got it you may be afraid it will not last long or that you may lose it.
Even further, if you see other people own something or someone you don’t have, which you would like to have, it may cause the negative feeling of jealousy or hatred. In fact a lot of fighting and wars have come from the greed and possessiveness of all kinds of pleasure. But if we can control our consciousness to not be lost from greed and hate it is still alright to enjoy fast pleasure.
Happiness is a deeper feeling which most of the time is connected to emotions. When we feel there are many people who love us sincerely, or who are proud of us or even just one person loves us the way we are, we already feel happiness. In Chinese, when a person has a lot of happiness from material security and positive emotional support, is called lucky karma.
All of this is not the spiritual idea of happiness, because all of the above are not eternal, by quality it is not perfect and they will always end with a sense of dissatisfaction (never enough).
Desire is a black hole it doesn’t matter how lucky we are, one day we all have to die and we will have to lose everything. So everything we own almost becomes like an illusion – not truthful. In fact the more we own, the more difficult it will be to cope with the loss of. It is easier for a beggar to die, he has not much to lose, but for a king, death is much more daunting, because he must suddenly face the extreme change from owning an entire kingdom, to losing everything.
Spiritual kind of happiness has to be truthful, perfect and eternal. Once we are able to reach this level it forms an incredible complete satisfied feeling, so deep and so valuable it will last for the entire lifetime, and so powerful that it will even be able to form a memory to last for many more lifetimes. That is the joy of spiritual force, in Zen Buddhism they call it enlightenment, in the original Buddhism they call it Nirvana and Buddha is the one who has reached this awareness in the highest level.
After reaching nirvana he said, every life form can become Buddha and every life can reach True Perfect Eternal Happiness. When someone is lost on their way to a holiday paradise, he needs the correct map and the knowledge of his position, then all he as to do is follow the right direction using the right kind of transportation or tools to get there.
Buddhism is this correct information and tool. True Buddhism is not a religion, Buddha said blind belief is a cause of suffering, he disagreed with people trying to blindly believe anything, he welcomed everyone to come and question him until they reached no doubt and true understanding.
Therefore Buddhism is the philosophy which understands the truth of life. That is why there is no need to believe, because you can directly understand it from any angle by learning and practicing. In the future classes we will continue talk about the different awareness of life to help you be aware of your own position and the system for reaching
the True Perfect Eternal Happiness Spirits – Meditation and how to develop wisdom and compassion.
Written by Forever Wisdom Forest
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