The Happiness Podcast

111 - Lent Series - The Absolute

God says, “Give me your heart.” And then, in answer to my puzzlement, I hear him say, “Your heart is where your treasure is.” My treasures—here they are:  persons...places...occupations ...things ... experiences of the past... the future’s hopes and dreams. I pick each treasure up, starting with the past and something near me says, " In the measure that your heart is in past treasures you are fossilized and dead, and then it moves to the next treasure with yet another admonition. 

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112 - Lent Series - The Center

I see how frequently I rush outside myself —to people, occupations, places, things—in search of strength and peace and meaning, forgetting that the source of all is here within my heart. It is here that I must search.

113 - Lent Series - The Darkness

I think of myself as quite a decent person, good-hearted and respected, with minor flaws and failings, until it dawns on me that the greatest spiritual failings are the ones committed in ignorance. I see the well-intentioned damage “love” inflicts on helpless children. I see the marks of cruelty in fervently religious people. I see fair-minded Pharisees assess the evidence against Jesus, and consider it their duty to do away with him.  

114 - Lent Series - The Desert

I look at Jesus in his agony on the night before he died. I stand quite close to him and watch him reaching out for human help, but no one now can reach him —he is entirely on his own before he dies.

115 - Marching to the Beat of Another’s Drum

There is never a minute when, consciously or unconsciously, you are not aware of or attuned to the reactions of others, marching to the beat of their drums. When you are ignored or disapproved of, you experience a loneliness so unbearable that you crawl back to people and beg for the comforting drug of reassurance called approval. To live with people in this state involves a never-ending tension. A nice definition of an awakened person is someone who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.  Awake up! Life is a banquet. Enjoy it. 

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116 - What’s So Funny?

A Japanese master woke up each morning laughing a great belly laugh that resounded through the monastery, waking up the other monks. The monks wondered what made the master laugh but he wouldn’t say. For millennia, mystics have posed the question to seekers: “Why are you unhappy? Why are you scared?” Until we've seen Reality, it makes sense to us to feel unsafe; to be unhappy. Yet it's as silly as a fish afraid of drowning. This is what the master was laughing at.

117 -A Matter of Life or Death

Where there is love, there is no desire. I am referring to desire in the sense of attachment. Where there is attachment there is fear. Love begins where attachments end. You know what society will tell you? “Attachment is love.” Are you really expecting to find life here? You can find only manipulation, seduction, and control. You can find only death and misery. The death of happiness, the death of innocence, the death of freedom, the death of authenticity. 

118 - To Live Like a King or Queen

I’ll tell you what it means to live like a king or queen. It means to know no anxiety at all. To have no inner conflict at all. No tensions, no pressures, no upset, no heartache. What are you left with? Happiness, undiluted. People ask me, “What do I do to be happy?” You  don’t  do anything to be happy. You know why? Because you have it already, but you're blocking it. Remove the blocks. 

119 - The Litmus Test of Enlighenment

All the mystics tell us our life is in our hands. Okay, let’s suppose you want to grasp that. Let’s suppose you want to see it. What do you have to first understand about yourself? First, your life is in a mess. You don’t like to hear that; it brings up all kinds of resistance, but here is the litmus test that proves it. Once it's fully embrace, without any self-condemnation, everything can begin to change.

120 - Does Dropping Attachments Mean Detachment from the World?

Does the dropping of attachments mean detachment from the material world? No. One uses the material world, one enjoys the material world, but one doesn’t make one’s happiness depend on the material world. You really begin to enjoy things when you’re unattached because attachment brings anxiety. If you’re anxious when you’re holding on to something, you can hardly enjoy it. It's not a withdrawal from enjoyment; it’s a withdrawal from possessiveness, anxiety, tension, and the loss of something.

 

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