Happiness is just Madness.

This morning my love Ahiranta and I were on the sofa being in our peace together contacting each other, then 'thought' I thought I better break this as we have things to do in this life, I put the TV on to break into that peace. We have our little Grandchild here today also, Bobby, he is really a cute little fellow, utterly handsome all the women go weak at the knees when they see him so they just have to pick him up and cuddle him, and kiss him and lick him...lol Ahiranta's legs are so weak they are like jelly wobbling all the time, laugh out loud, well he does take after his granddad I have the same problem, I suppose its understandable.

TV on, and what is it? Frazier, we caught it on a scene where Frazier is keeping himself busy, there is something he doesnt want to face for it will make him unhappy if he faces it, ie if he stops, and his father tells him not to get lost in what he is doing and give himself time to be happy.

At this point I become nauseated, this is supposed to be wisdom, puke, puke, everyone believes this is wisdom, but this is foolish wisdom, and I hear this kind of wisdom being repeated over and over again, and again if everyday people are not saying it then you even have the 'So called enlightened people giving out the same foolish wisdom'

Hear this truth, this true wisdom, take it or leave it at your own peril who is going to lose? This is the truth and and it is beyond the foolish happiness you chase constantly for.

The happiness most people go after usually comes at a price, this happiness always ends up in unhappiness, the see-saw effect, that is why there are so many divorces, so many marriage break ups, so many people who end up in mental institutions because we are all conditioned to 'believe the same kind of things bring happiness, this kind of happiness is an illusion, it can never be real happiness the reason for this is because this happiness you rely on is always outside of you, this happiness relies on you being able to have control over your environment, so that things are kept under control then you can have your hard gained happiness, but only if it goes accordingly, only if it goes with whatever rules you have given it to be so, to make you happy and everyone will make different rules to allow them this kind of momentary happiness we put rules on society on environment, it is not true happiness, it cannot be true happiness, because you may have control for a short while and then, big explosion you are unhappy, you have lost control over your environment, under these conditions it is like living life on a roller-coaster, this is the happiness everyone is talking about, the more things your happiness relies on the more chances you are going to become very unhappy, those people who have only small amount of things to make them happy get away from it for longer but they too get caught sooner or later.

It is like a rancher who has cattle, he may have many cattle, he may have few cattle, in order for him to gain money(happiness) he has to have control of those cattle they have to be kept penned in, they have to have water, they have to have food and he is responsible for them, therefore he puts up the boundary posts and fencing, if the fencing is breached he will become tense and anxious, hence he will be unhappy, so long as he has control he will be happy, therefore in order to keep this control he has to regularly go and check the food, go and check the water and go to see the posts and fencing to make sure they are still effective, if they are not effective then he will have to give it his manual labour.

All this is the price to pay for the happiness that so many guru's preach about so many clergy men preach about, but they have missed and essential ingredient, in this situation the rancher goes to bed and has sleepless nights worrying that there will be no rain, that there may be a drought and he cannot afford to buy hay to feed his cattle, or even someone may break down his fencing and steal his cattle from him, and they may all be gone or even run away, this kind of life will eventually wear him down, he will age quickly because he has taken all this worry upon himself, for this so called illusion of happiness.

Try to understand this is a metaphorical rancher, the rancher really stands for that part of us all who chases after happiness, the cattle stands for each pursuit and those many things that bring that momentarily happiness they are many and varied but yet all outside of himself, he knows there is something good in life, this is an innate feeling but he mistakenly thinks that it is in the wealth of the cattle, all the outside pursuits, the cattle stand for many things he chases after in his life, each individual cattle stands for one pursuit of happiness out of the many transient things he has pursued in his life, the bull of the herd, or the stud stands for the one most important happiness and from this stems the whole herd, from this stud comes the strength of all the other cattle for they are all related in some way to this one bull, this bull can represent, one's true love, one husband, ones wife, ones business, one's child, one's wealth, one's car, one's home etc and then all other things that make one happy rely on this one thing take the head bull out and then eventually the heard will fall prey to all kinds of problems until eventually all is gone, like if you are rich and you attract all your friends because of that then when you lose your money you will also lose your friends, this is your happiness.

Now listen to this, for if you miss it you will carry on for the rest of your life being miss guided by the false guru's. One day illness is going to come, then happiness will be lost very easily, for all those things while you are ill you cannot have, because they are all things that lie outside of you, you may even have to leave your body, which will be very hard for you to do and this will make your parting a very painful event in all ways, both for you and for those who are reliant upon you for their own transient kind of happiness, the stress of holding onto this control over all these things will probably be the cause of this demise, because of stress related illness.


Yet in all of those momentarily happiness things that you chase after lies a key to true happiness, if you do not as most do, take them for only skin deep, for if one investigates what is happening within me on account of this new boyfriend/girlfriend, car, house, wealth etc. What is really happening inside of "ME" for instance it "FEELS" pleasant.

Now ask yourself; what caused this pleasant feeling? if you are superficial with your life then you will get a superficial answer back, Oh! I have a new car, a new boyfriend, a new house, I am wealthy now, and I am happy because of that, all these things in no time if you are honest with yourself are all but chasing the wind, yet still there was that moment you had this happiness "YOU FELT IT".

Then if you take the external environment that is the external stimulas car boyfriend house wealth out of this, that is that which caused this feeling, then you will be aware of some internal process that happened, it "FELT" remember and though I made all those rules with my mind and this thing that caused this "FEEL" within me was from the outside, there was something definate that happened inside of me.

Next question on one who wishes to fathom out the truth, where did I feel it after I had thought it through and everything met my mental criterior for happiness to happen?

Now for many people this "FEEL" will begin in the stomach, it is unusual in my own investigation to start in the chest area, as many people will be book read and say it felt in my heart area, we are not talking about books we are talking about real here, though I have to say one can once felt this "FEEL" in the stomach move it to the belly, or sometimes one will not be conscious that it was already feeling in the belly before you became concious of that "FEEL" rising into your chest, that I have seen to be possible.

Now you have observed that happiness was not really something that happened because of something that was outside of you, though somthing happened outside it cannot be responsible for inside me that is me inside...... Now what else happened so that this "FEEL" inside of the belly happened, well just before it your body felt free from tension, that is the mind was satisfied then the mind was at ease, therefore your body became realaxed all tension left your body, because everything met your criterion for happiness there was also a moment of stillness.

If you look further into yourself you would have seen that your breath had slowed right down and that you were breathing in a different way there it was and then gone, why because you were controlled by your environment, it stopped you made it stop when the external thing stopped, you made it stop with mind and rules, you layed down conditions for your own happiness to happen, you layed down those condition in the environment which is like the cattle we spoke of, your cattle are mostly outside of your control that is why so few people really are happy with their lives, when you try to control a something, when you try to lay rules on a something that you think will make you happy, you have basically given permission for everything and everyone to control you this outside control causes inner tension this causes dis-ease unhappiness eventually this stress will cause death to the body, the more you have control of your body the more longer life you will give to it, keep tension away, keep body relaxed at all times.

How to take back control of yourself? "LET GO" let it all go, get rid of it the need to control the need of false stimulases, then you have a clear ground that you can work in, then look at all those mechanisms you observed when momentarily happiness was happening to you, they were all inner levers, observe your mind and the things you have become attracted to like a magnet and you create all kinds of things around this, like Frazier in the beginning of this discourse he lost himself in everything because he feared facing himself with nothing to do, why? Because he thought he could find happiness in doing something outside of himself when he should have looked inside and took control of his own levers by learning to be aware, by knowing how to bring internal happiness, one can defeat an enemy once he knows that enemy wrongful pursuit of one 'Thinks' as happiness.

Take back control of your mind, take back control of your breath, and take back control of your body, if you think I mean meditation then you are wrong if you think that meditation is a something to do to find happiness, if you think that meditation is not doing anything then you begin to get the idea, just sit do nothing and you will find your true nature is really happiness, it is not in doing meditation meditation is in nothing, but not happiness reliant upon anything it is happiness that can only be come to by achieving inner peace and this inner peace can only be come to when one has let go of all of those external stimulus's that you thought were going to give you true happiness, you were mistaken they were only clues for you to look inside of yourself and find the true source, a true inner search will find the same thing as I did; It was never happening outside it was always inside.

Now therefore if you are unhappy do not blame anyone except you yourself and your own inability not to see where it all comes from, it is you who is responsible for everything that happens to you true happiness is not dependant on external stimulus true happiness can only be found when one is at peace with themselves that is true happiness it has no boundary lines it is not dependant on anything other than the self, this happiness gives you the sleep of a new born all fears are lost all anxieties of losing it are non existent this happiness lies in not chasing happiness, but rather to discover the peace within the self that is true happiness and it cannot be taken away, if you get good at this the time that comes to take leave of the body it will be a pleasant experience rather than a nightmare for yourself and everyone involved with you.

LOVE TRUTH PEACE COMPASSION FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM
OZAY RINPOCHE