The Illusion of Happiness

The Illusion of Happiness

What is Happiness?

A joy derived from achievement? A moment to cherish? Finding a Love that has been longed for? 

A human being is provoked by desire, the desire to have or to want, but do desires hold the seed to experience happiness in life?

The achievement of desires brings a sense of joy, but does that joy last forever?

Even when there is some sense of happiness that is derived from the joy of achievement; it fades away over a passage of time.

So what brings us to True Happiness? Is true Happiness possible?

A question that arises in the minds of many, but it is yet left for future consideration.

Is Happiness just a belief of our mind?

We search for it through our entire life, yet it evades us?

Let us presume, if Happiness is not possible in our life for a moment. What holds True for us then?

Mind creates thoughts, an infinite flow of thoughts, could Happiness just be another thought?

Which us back to the source question of What is Happiness again?

The simplest answer is - We don't know what happiness is

We struggle to be happy without knowing what it truly means for us, we think we know what it means until we find out that it has only been another thought or a desire we have been chasing for so long - An endless circle of longing in existence, penetrating and manipulating perceptions of our life, mind and our sense of reality.

Accepting that we don't really know what IT is, is the acknowledgement of the fallacy of our ideas regarding IT

What remains in the moment, when the idea of Happiness is recognized to be untrue?

Confronting a presence of deadened silence in our life? A loss of hope or faith perhaps?

or just a stoic quietness that reflects back nothing... an absolute space of darkness...

or perhaps the experience of how we truly feel within our Self?

The moment is totally empty devoid of any hope or expectations projected by our mind towards the world, or any that we may have regarding our life or from anybody.

Happiness is illusory when desired and self existent when there is no desire for it. 

What an irony! We look for it everywhere yet we find it nowhere - Just Now Here

The moment that strips us of all our veils, all the covering, all that we hide within reveals the Happiness that we already are. 

But, That moment cannot be found anywhere if we are looking for it somewhere.

I chased my dreams beyond the clouds

into the Universes that were unheard of

yet i returned only to find - The emptiness of it all

and as I resigned giving up my dreams of hope and adventure

Struck by an unseen lightening, and unheard thunder

IT lay bare, stark naked in front of me

myself not separate in IT

Words simply find their dead end

and IT already is more Alive HERE and NOW