Is Happiness a Choice?

[Adonai One]

There's nothing to get. There's truly not a single thing that must be had, attained, known: The universe will not falter in its own internal discovery because you didn't do something. It will keep going.

[Billy]

Yeah, I really don't get it.

[michael430]

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[Billy]

You guys . There is much to consider. Thank you.

[Unbound]

Don't worry about what works for others, find what works for you.

[Adonai One]

Yeah, I really don't get it.

Emptiness. An empty cup. That's all I have to offer. There's nothing within it to drink. I do not offer sustenance nor occult books. I don't offer magical cures. I offer inherent knowledge, dharma, all things as they are.

Again, there's nothing to get. If you believe there is, you will soon be starved as most on this planet are. This forum is hungry and it will never be fed by occult works, crystals nor visualizations alone until it realizes its inherent emptiness, inevitably. If you seek fullness, you will never be full. If you seek emptiness, you will cease seeking and at once be fulfilled, complete, ONE.

Again, all that I have to offer is the empty dharma.

[AnthroHeart]

So happiness can be found by becoming nothing?

[Adonai One]

And at once, becoming everything for an empty cup, once fulfilled in timelessness, sees all that it will be within the present moment.

How one perceives nothingness differs and depends on how one perceives themselves presently: Are you currently everything/nothing or is everything/nothing something to be attained? The latter leads to perpetual suffering, no matter if you are "good" or "evil" for even the unethical student must become empty, complete, satisfied in his present position in some capacity to sustain.

Sakyamuni Buddha addresses a great assembly: “If we see [both] the many forms and [their] non-form, we at once meet the Tathagata.”

-Shobogenzo, Kenbutsu, Gudo Nishijima & Mike Cross

[Sabou]

An empty cup. That's all I have to offer. There's nothing within it to drink.

I accept your offer and i filled it with apple juice

This forum is hungry and it will never be fed

False, I was given pad Thai after my shift tonight, yummy, probably not very healthy but it sure tastes good.

[Unbound]

Yeah, I really don't get it.

Emptiness. An empty cup. That's all I have to offer. There's nothing within it to drink. I do not offer sustenance nor occult books. I don't offer magical cures. I offer inherent knowledge, dharma, all things as they are.

Again, there's nothing to get. If you believe there is, you will soon be starved as most on this planet are. This forum is hungry and it will never be fed by occult works, crystals nor visualizations alone until it realizes its inherent emptiness, inevitably. If you seek fullness, you will never be full. If you seek emptiness, you will cease seeking and at once be fulfilled, complete, ONE.

Again, all that I have to offer is the empty dharma.

Be full of emptiness, ha.

I see what you see, but I am amused you offer something but call it nothing. If you truly offered nothing, then you would not speak, you would be only silent. You are still offering yourself.

[Adonai One]

Offering oneself as The All Buddha Self is offering emptiness. Offering oneself as The All Buddha Self while not seeing one's inherent All Buddha Self empty is to impose fullness on the inherently empty self. To allow suffering to be imposed when seen is to impose fullness on said suffering.

Fullness never seeks to be empty. In this fullness is hunger within endless starvation; Suffering without end; Disharmony without resolution. Only the glutton seeks to be full. Only the glutton seeks facades of emptiness, facades of silence. For true silence can come within words and without words: This is the true balance.

[Unbound]

Offering emptiness to emptiness, brilliant.

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(Also kind of redundant, but I ain't the expert...)

[Infinite Unity]

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From my perspective, the level of happiness you feel is a result of what you place your awareness, which is your spiritual power, upon.  There are thoughts consonant with unity, and there are thoughts that are not consonant with unity.  Every thought resonates with your spiritual complex in a certain way, and those thoughts that don't will always register a feeling of disharmony, or negativity, with you.  

This is why thoughts of judgment about others never feel good, because the spirit inside of you never sees any being in a negative light, so thoughts of judgment about others are one of the most common causes of unhappiness.

Thoughts also have momentum, and in that sense, the amount of choice one has about their level of happiness is variable.  While it is never too late to start turning your thoughts around toward unity, a train going 100 mph in one direction does not instantly change direction.  It has to slow down, and then begin motion in the other direction.

Releasing thought, as in meditation, is another way to slow down the momentum.  Once momentum comes to a rest, you vibration will naturally begin to rise to the positive.

Whats the difference between judgement and discernment?  The one thing that bothers me about being positive and thinking positively is how it often results in suppression of unwanted thoughts.  I am trying to find a balance between the two I guess.  I'm wondering which thoughts are worth examining and which are worth discarding entirely.
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In my own opinion, and I have repressed my own thoughts in a similar way, you shouldn't be repressing these thoughts. Nor acting on them in instances that action is an possible outcome. Even if it is a judgement about an other self, I don't think you should repressed it. But bring it into awareness fully, examine what you feel these ways. How many times have you judged someone, for from your view point or similar, that you did or seemed a certain way to someone else? There are many possibilities beyond logicality at work. Many people do silly it seemingly dumb things, due to the consideration or trying to meet what they think other people expect, ironically.

So when judging an other, instead if repressing, examine why you feel this way, and why do you truly feel this way? All distortions begin with in, even if the source seems to be external. To see these distortions in this form, takes it to be present within your own significator. See the distortions is not truly from the core of your being, but assume more program/programmable form with in the significator.

[Louisabell]

"Whats the difference between judgement and discernment?"

I like this question. I always thought of judgement as condemning. Condemnation is painful. When you condemn parts of others, aren't you condemning or separating from parts of yourself, for are we not capable of all things under the right conditions?

Humans are story-telling primates, and some of the stories we end up believing can make us quite mad, I think we're all a little mad from confusion, some more confused than others.

To discern is to identify distortion with acceptance of the cause and effect factors at play, usually for the purposes of understanding/relating/connecting or (can't forget) opportunistic gain.

And another question this thread raised for me - what is it to have happiness?

[loostudent]

I think happiness is a choice to some extent (it depends on spiritual maturity). Feeling gratitude, believing in purpose, finding inner light ...

As the entity increases in experience it shall, more and more, choose positive interpretations of catalyst if it is upon the service-to-others path and negative interpretations of catalyst if its experience has been of the service-to-self path.

[kristina]

Simply put, is happiness a choice? I think it is.
No matter the circumstances, we can choose to be happy,
and not let things get to us.

Can we turn it around within milliseconds in how we observe it?

This is at least how I feel. Even when I have more work to do
I can simply be happy.

We're not supposed to look for happiness outside of ourselves.

Yes it is