The Mad Dash For Happiness

October 10, 2007 · Filed Under New Planet Earth Series · Comment 

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The pursuit of happiness. The dominate motivator for humans in duality consciousness. What is happiness? Where can we find it? Why does it seem so elusive? Why are we constantly chasing it? This article will attempt to answer these questions with the intention of showing how humans on the new planet earth will finally catch up to it.

Happiness can be a feeling or it can be a state of mind. Trying to define it is difficult. It is a subjective concept with everyone having a different answer when asked the question, “what is happiness?” Maybe it’s the amount of money we have. Maybe it’s whether we are loved. Possibly our status in society or if our job is a respected one. There is not one definitive answer to this question even though so many of us live every day in search of it. How many times have you said or heard others say “I don’t care about anything else, I just want to be happy.” When hearing that statement I feel like asking them to define what that means but I don’t, because I know that the answer is as elusive as the question.

People look for happiness in so many different places. They look for it in the things they own. They look for it in the relationships they have with others. They search for it in the activities they do. Some hunt for happiness in the careers that they choose. It can be a daily pursuit, always looking for that one thing that will make us happy. It is like a hunger. We feel the need to be happy like we feel the need to eat. We are looking to be filled up. If we just can get fulfilled then we will be happy.

Some people look for happiness in a Jack Daniels bottle or with drugs. Others feel sex will bring them happiness. Many feel they will find it at a shopping mall. The constant search for something that will create that feeling of exhilaration. Those “full of life” or “excited to be alive” feelings. Unfortunately these paths to happiness wear off quickly. 

The idea of looking for happiness is always looking to the future. If I buy this home, I’ll be happy. If I get this job, I’ll be happy. If I have a child, I’ll be happy. If I win the lottery, I’ll be happy. Happiness seems to be always in the future and always conditional.

Yes, there are times when we feel like we have found happiness but inevitably something will come along to mess it up and make us lose it again. Sometimes when we think we have found it, we get so afraid of losing it that we create situations for our selves that let it slip away, often because we feel we don’t deserve to be happy. Then we have to return to our search for it.

What is happiness?

The answer is … there is no such thing! Happiness is an illusion. The definition of happiness is like a moving target. It is answered differently be anyone who is asked. It is so elusive because we think we know what it is and we know we want it, but it does not exist. So how could we find it. It is a concept that people look for outside of themselves.

If you have been reading this article series you will know that looking outside ourselves for anything that we think we need to be complete or whole is a concept rooted in duality. Living in the future is another. Is happiness something we can obtain in the future? Can we really find happiness in anything outside of our selves?

The human on the new planet earth will know that the chase for happiness begins and ends within us all. We will know that happiness is an illusion because it can’t be defined. That feeling joy in the present moment is all that is real. That joy is not found in the amount of money we have or given to us by others or found in the things we own. Joy and the ability to en-joy can only be created within us and only be felt right now. Not in the future or the past.

As an example I have used before, I like to observe young children. They create joy within them selves in an instant. One minute they can be crying after a fall and the next minute they are laughing and jumping around full of joy. They have no need of anything outside themselves to create the joy and exhilaration that we are constantly chasing. They are en-joying every second of their experiences in the present moment. All one needs to do is look in their eyes or observe their smiles to know this to be true. As Jesus said we will have to become like children to enter the kingdom of heaven. Young children are the models of how humans will be in the new consciousness. Heaven is right here on earth. It is to be experienced every waking moment in the now not in the future when we leave this earth. 

You may feel that this is an oversimplification of a complex subject but that is the beauty of life in the next step of our evolution. The concepts are simple like all universal concepts are. The knowing that we are one with all things. Understanding that we are God also. The elimination of judgement of people and events. Losing the ties of attachments that weigh us down and hold us from feeling and being free. And finally, the realization that happiness is an elusive, undefinable concept that is easily replaced by the real feeling of inner joy created in the present. You can’t be in joy (enjoy) in the future. Life will be simple. These attributes blend and overlap to produce a harmonious inner peace that we, as the truly spiritual beings we are, will experience on the new planet earth that we are creating right now.

We will satisfy that empty feeling that motivates the chase for happiness by filling our selves with spirit. When we are filled with the knowing and the answers about who we are and why we are here, there will be no need for anything external to create the feelings of joy and inner peace that we so desperately search for in our present consciousness. We will look back and laugh at the things we thought we needed to do to obtain it. We will know that the pursuit of happiness was a chase with no end because we will realize that happiness never really existed.

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Judgement Is Over

August 19, 2007 · Filed Under New Planet Earth Series · Comment 

Judgement is an illusion. The human in the new consciousness of earth will judge no more. When we entrench the knowledge that we are one with all things along with the total understanding that we are the creators of our reality, then judgement will not make sense. How can we judge something or someone as right or wrong, good or bad when we know that we are that person or we have created the very situation we now so readily judge.

Judgement is an aspect of duality consciousness. We seem to need to look at a person or event and almost instantly judge it as good or bad. We need to put it in that box to set our minds at ease and to be able to make sense of it. Duality demands it. All things must be classified into these boxes of right or wrong. Take note of how many times a day that we judge things in this manner. Everything that is presented, whether its the person we see on the street, the news we hear on the media or the behaviors of the people close to us, requires us to use judgement. Instantly. How many times have you judged something as wrong that later, after getting more information, you changed your perspective to the opposite result. Judgement is a moving target. Who makes the rules? Is it society or the government or the church? Is there more than one rule book?

When I examine the practice of judgement I ask these questions. The answer I see is that every person has their own rule book. That’s too confusing for me. Is there such a thing as “normal?” We seem to love to use the “norm” as our yardstick for judging what is or isn’t. What is the norm? This confusion proves to me that judgement is an illusion. It not real. It is not definable. Too many different interpretations of normal or what is beautiful or what is ugly. There is no universal application.

Judgement is so ingrained in societal structures that it has evolved into being the main system that we defer to for guidance to ultimately decide right or wrong. Our laws and those that enforce them hold immense power over our daily lives. The government and judicial systems rewrite the rule book daily on the premise that “they” know what is truly  right or wrong, good or bad and we allow them to have that power over us because of the duality consciousness that we are in. The concept of judgement does not work when the other aspects of the new earth are used.

A replacement for judgement that will be an attribute for us in the new energy of unity consciousness is the practice of discernment. It is a much easier, less confusing concept than judgement and can be applied universally to all things.

Discernment

Discernment may seem a lot like judgement but it has some important differences. When   discernment is used, the people or events that we are presented with are not judged as good or bad they just are. This stems from the knowledge of the oneness of all things and knowing that these things are created by us. Then with these understandings we choose to embrace them or not. If we discern that these things are not for us then we just leave them without the need to tag them as right or wrong, good or bad. Discernment leaves the power with us to decide rather than following a set of rules made up by others. And with that, allowing others to decide for themselves what will align with their path trusting that the outcome will be for the highest good of all.

Using discernment is the ability to see the higher purpose for events or behavior. Using the understanding that they are created to help us return to the knowing of our true selves. The ability to see God in all things and to know that we are God also. Knowing that the duality concepts are not real. That everything just “is.” Not needing to attach the vibration of good or bad to things that are presented to us. The practice of discernment in place of judgement makes life so much easier and plays a big part in the attainment of the elusive “inner peace” that so many long for.   

You may say that this will create chaos. There must be rules and structure or we will
destroy each other. With the new earth the attribute of discernment only works when all the aspects of the new consciousness are adopted. It is a complete change in the way we view our selves and our relationship to all things. There will be no hurting or lying or stealing. When have created this new world there will be no need for the things that we use now. No need for all the rules that we follow now. No desire to hurt another knowing that by doing so we are just hurting our selves.

Utopia? Pie in the sky? Maybe. I like to call it heaven on earth. This is where heaven is. We are creating it right now. We are really just remembering the fact that it is already created. Judging others has no place in heaven. There is no need for a rule book in heaven. The next stage of human evolution is upon us. We are raising our vibration into Christ consciousness, leaving duality consciousness and the mind set of judgement behind. 

The Mayans say December 21 2012. I am not so convinced of specific dates. I am convinced that one by one we are waking up to these concepts and very soon we will all be enjoying life on our new planet earth…Heaven on Earth.

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