Happiness

LIFE CAN GIVE YOU NO HAPPINESS

MAHARSHI:  The truth about happiness and suffering, which has been correctly determined by the wise, is this:  outwardness of the mind is suffering; its inwardness is happiness.

RAMESH:  The knowledge of Truth comes about when dispassion arises in a man after he has learned from personal experience that whatever life provides is truly hollow.  The man of the world becomes the man of wisdom through recognizing that non-attachment is liberation whereas the passion for sensory objects and experience is bondage.

     Pursuit of pleasure and pursuit of happiness are totally different.  It is a physical sense that seeks pleasure. It is the heart that seeks happiness.  Not pursuing pleasure, not wanting continuity of pleasure, is the happiness the human being seeks.

WAYNE:  Desires that arise in the human mind and body are in themselves transient and benign.  It is involvement by the False Sense of Authorship that converts a desire into suffering.  When the False Sense of Authorship is finally dissolved desires can no longer lead to suffering.

from​-​ CALM IS GREATER THAN JOY by Shirish Kumar S. Murthy. p89​, Zen Publications (2010) ​,https://advaita.3dcartstores.com/CALM-IS-GREATER-THAN-JOY-by-Shirish-Kumar-S-Murthy_p_434.html

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