Happiness

This is a story about Buddha, who is the embodiment of the Egoless soul.

A man went to Buddha and said to him:

* I want happiness.

This is how Buddha answered:

* Remore “I”. That is Ego.

Remove “want”. That is desire (again Ego).

All you are left with is happiness.

One is born. And one is given this idea. That they need to seek for happiness. They are provided with the illusion that happiness is somewhere to be found. That it is a goal to be achieved. An ending to an effort. And one goes on with their life driven by this desire. ‘I want happiness’, one thinks, one demands.

But there is no ‘I’. That is our personality, a mask we wear since the day we are born.

There is no ‘I want’. That is desire. A feeling created from the illusion that something is missing. And one seeks a path to find the missing happiness. But happiness is the path itself. There are no prerequisites to it. It is not a goal. It is a continuous state of peace. It was there before we were born. And it will be found once we rest in peace, physically, mentally, emotionally. The Self is already there, is already peaceful, perfect without the desire to be improved. Our human form must be aligned with the Self to reach this realisation.

Overcoming the imperfections of our human state through detachment and meditation, will bring us to the awareness that those imperfections were never there to begin with. All effort will seize and the truth will reveal itself. Happiness does not come to us. It can only come from us!

By Maria Ηadjistylli