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September 3, 2015 at 5:36 am #82756
InkyParticipantHi Geek,
When I was asking existential/life quality questions like this ten years ago, my friend told me to read The Bhagavad Gita. Read one with good commentaries! It’s about being content with living and living in your nature. But of course, spiritually it covers much more than that! Read it and tell us what you think.
Blessings,
Inky
September 3, 2015 at 8:24 am #82769
AnonymousGuestDear Geek:
You wrote so clearly. “I’m not used to long periods of happiness (my record is approx. 14 days and that was 5 years ago).”
Will you write more about this sentence- what state/s of mind are dominant in between the rare breaks of happiness? When did it start? Why…?
anita
September 3, 2015 at 11:13 pm #82831
GeekParticipantThanks, Inky!
September 3, 2015 at 11:22 pm #82832GeekParticipantAnita,
Thanks for your answer.
During those 2 weeks I kept a state of happiness by doing intensive meditations (as far as I remember, at least an hour every morning, saying a certain mantra several hundred times). I also lived in a place that I like and worked in a way, which I enjoyed.
That happiness was the result of a purposeful effort.
what state/s of mind are dominant in between the rare breaks of happiness?
The dominant thought is “I have to get out of here”, i. e. change the place of living and my job to something more suitable for me. The consequence of that thought is that a day/hour, which I don’t spend on improving my life, is a day/hour wasted.
Best regards
Geek
September 4, 2015 at 7:52 am #82843AnonymousGuestDear Geek:
You care a lot about having a purpose for your life beyond mere survival. You care about having a mission, something meaningful to motivate you, to bring passion to your life, something to make life more than mere survival. You mentioned your “world-improvement potential” and you wrote: “When a worker from the assembly line goes to a child, awakens his interest in technology (for example) and then the child becomes a master in some field because of that interaction, then the worker’s impact is much greater than anything he could have done on the assembly line.”
That interaction you wish to have with a child is the interaction you wish another had with you when you were a child, isn’t it? You wish that someone older than you would have removed you from the Assembly Line kind-of-life you had, a life where you were nobody special, and lead you to a life where you were someone special?
anita
September 4, 2015 at 4:03 pm #82863
SaiishaParticipantHello Geek – as Inky mentioned above, the Bhagavad Gita talks a LOT about 2 things: Dharma and Karma. Dharma refers to your noble mission, the inner guidance to do what you came on the planet to do. Does your newly discovered mission feel like you’re following the path of YOUR Purpose? The thing you came to the planet for? If so, don’t worry about happiness – what will come is fulfillment, a satisfaction of seeing your mission in action, a meaning to your life and living.
“It is better to live your own Dharma imperfectly, than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” -Bhagavad Gita
Also check out – 5 Paths to Discovering Your Dharma: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-16692/the-5-paths-to-discovering-your-dharma.htmlAs for some reading materials for accepting daily happiness, I recommend Byron Katie’s “Loving What Is”
And for more reading about Purpose, I loved “Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life,” by Gregg LevoyI hope this helps.
Namaste, Saiisha -
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