Princess Arabia

The body doesn't appear inside you. There's just simply no you. The body doesn't belong to and returns to earth. There's a body that appears or doesn't. It can appear anyway, dead, sick, decomposed, healthy or alive. Neither is a process in time. There's just body appearing however it appears. It doesn't return to earth. It may appear to be in a grave, that's fresh and new and wasn't caused by death.

Contradictory statements.

It's really bad today. Lagging really bad.

Story time.

Why does someone need to change their smoking habit or any other habit. Says you. Life is impersonal. The man was right. You're also attached to your ideas about the life and the world. One says smoke another says don't, both are attachments. No judgement either way is neutrality. That's natural.

Your statement here is self-deception at it's core too. The questioner is attached to not smoking. What's the difference. Your idea of "awake" is the deception.

Now you tripled it. Next choice would quadruple it. Better off staying solo. Wait....the self can also disappoint. Your shit's outta luck. Hehe

I'm getting it too. Actualized.org has been running slower than usual lately. "Insufficient Storage" pops up a lot here too.

Anger cannot be dealt with.

Here's a video that points to what I'm trying to say.

It doubles the chances. Now you've got both genders capable of hurting you. Can't escape. Desire can be painful.

Yes, but most desire happiness, not to "not suffer". Most are telling people how to be happy not how to not suffer, even though both are pretty much the same thing but there's a subtle difference and that's what the post is pointing to. How suffering is there but happiness is being chased and that makes it more of the enemy than suffering because it's what's driving the suffering, the lack of happiness.

What I'm saying in that regard is, on an intimate/sexual level, the gender we seek is the one capable of hurting us; so, since happiness is what we seek, it is capable of hurting us and in this context the hurt is in it's absence. If you're straight, can a man break your heart, no. You're heartbroken because you don't feel loved. You don't see women as the enemy but men are automatically excluded from being the enemy in this way. You don't see happiness as the enemy but suffering is automatically excluded because it's not saught after. Same thing, women are saught after by you and men aren't so men can't be your enemy in this sense. It's like a reverse psychology kind of a thing.

It's all God-like. Wouldn't be if it wasn't. Bad health good health, joy, pain, suffering....all God-like. It's everything.

The pursuit of happiness is the enemy; and I use the word 'enemy' loosely here as it's not really.

@IshangaEven though, I do agree with your last statement, I still think it's the pursuit of happiness that causes the suffering to linger. Those people that are happy for longer periods aren't chasing happiness because it's already present, so i should have said in the heading the pursuit of happiness is the enemy because pursuing happiness implies you're sad.

You do have a point here.

It takes a different kind of thinking to really see what I'm saying here. If one takes every emotion that comes and sees it as what's simply arising then no emotion will make them suffer. Doing a job regardless of what emotion arises, going about life not chasing one over the other then none can make you suffer. (Not referring to physical pain). It's the pursuit for a feel better state that causes the suffering because one doesn't suffer when happiness arises only when it's absent. So therefore, suffering is not the enemy in this case, happiness is. One doesn't like something because it doesn't make them FEEL good. In that quest to feel good that becomes the enemy. No quest for a particular feeling and all is well. The quest is to feel happy; so happiness is now the enemy.

Exactly. Do you know why? They chased happiness down and they found it. The success was because of the chase for happiness and because it's not sustainable now it's worse for them because they don't see any hope to cure their dis-ease. If happiness, the enemy, didn't do it, then all hope is lost.

The point of this post is not to say happiness doesn't feel good or that it doesn't serve a purpose for the seeker of it and so on. It's to point out that because it's not permanent, and will eventually pass like every other emotion or state, the person doesn't realize that by chasing it, you have made it the enemy. How? Without it, you suffer.

This is really the point of the post. Because this may be the case and pleasant moods aren't constant and are changing, the pleasant mood becomes the enemy when it's not present. If one works better in a pleasant mood then the lack of it puts them in an unpleasant mood which makes that pleasant mood not something that is working for them because it's not permanent. There's a subtle point to this message that you're missing. Money is the enemy for broke people who or are sad because they don't have it. If being broke makes one happy, then being rich would be the enemy. Therefore being in a pleasant mood is the enemy not being in a bad mood because being in a bad mood isn't being saught after. Both bad and unpleasant moods are inevitable. The one being saught after is the one causing the problem.

The reason is because they're not happy. Like the post says, you're suffering because you're not feeling happy. You're looking at it from one side. What is suffering really. Suffering can empower you and happiness can also disempower you. Suffering can also be a strong motivator for some. The point of the post, though shows how one suffers because they're not feeling happy and aren't comfortable with that feeling of lack of happiness. They're suffering happiness. One doesn't suffer because one is suffering. One suffers because happiness isn't present. There's a subtle difference and takes an understanding of what is really being said here

This is not a suggestion to stop chasing happiness but an exposure that when one chases happiness, they're also chasing pain because both are the same thing when collapsed and they will eventually collapse because that's the nature of both as one cannot exist without the other. There is no tutorial on how to deal with either as neither relies on a subject to appear. Same for anger. These emotions arises regardless of subject. They don't need an owner. The one that claims them is the one that suffers them, including happiness.

Suffering is not a blessing spiritually speaking no more than how happiness can be a curse spiritually speaking. You want to be happy? Go ahead search down happiness but when you find it prepare for when it goes away and suffering returns. That's when happiness really hits. The lack of it, that is. You're not running from suffering, you want happiness back. Stop chasing happiness and you'll never suffer.

Everybody thinks they're different. If someone says they're the same as everybody else, then that's different.