Hello My Friends!
Today, I received the book You Are the Happiness You Seek: Uncovering the Awareness of Being by Rupert Spira (That is an affiliate link so you know the drill.) Rupert is currently one of my very favorite people to be listening to and there was something in this that was so extraordinary that I decided I had to stop what I was doing, come into the studio, record this for you and get it out there. Now, keep in mind this is all on the fly, it’s you know none of this is rehearsed. You’re just getting to hear me as you might hear me if we were talking in person which means when I go to read this, it might sound like crap, but you’re getting what you’re getting. This is it. (laughter is included on the recording) So anyway, um this is um, uh, uh from, from his book in a section called Happiness Is Inherent Within Us (pg 7).
“Happiness is always experienced inside us; it is never put in from the outside. It may seem to be connected to or triggered by external events, but unlike the food we eat, the water we drink or the air we breathe, we do not take it into ourself from outside. It originates within us, it is experienced within us and, when it disappears, no residue of it is dispersed into the outside world. Happiness is entirely an interior experience.
If happiness is always experienced within, albeit triggered by objective experience, mustn’t it lie in potential in us all the time? And if so, shouldn’t it be possible to have direct access to it, and to remain constantly in touch with it, without the need for our external circumstances to be configured in a particular way?
If it were possible to be in touch with our inherent peace and happiness without being dependent on external circumstances, would that not be the greatest discover one could make?
One might argue that unhappiness is also always experienced inside us and must, therefore, lie latent within us at all time. According to this view, our inherent happiness or unhappiness would simply be triggered by circumstances, depending on the extent to which they conform to our desire or expectation.”
Isn’t that extraordinary? I mean gosh, go back and listen to it again if you’re not thinking it is extraordinary because holy cow this stuff is good! (more laughter) I don’t have any of this typed out ahead of time which means I am going to have to listen to this and transcribe it in order to get it posted, but this passage was so worth it that I just have to do it. I have to share it. I’m so excited about this. You’re probably going to be seeing a whole lot more of this kind of thing coming up. Uhm, anyway, in the meantime, know I love you guys like crazy and I’ll talk to you soon!