What got me going on this reflection?
The statement that we are not meant to be happy on earth.
(This statement is erroneous.)
How do we get to accept that we are not meant to be happy? How do we get to internalize that we are not worthy of the pleasures of happiness? How do we get to feel so ill-at-ease with the fun of happiness?
(It is as if we have been soaked at birth in a “disfunctional” bath.)
That we admit it or not, we are, from birth on, taught, educated, indoctrinated – brainwashed - that we are lowly beings created by a powerful but insatiable “God”. A “God” that we cannot please. Our imperfections, sins, impurities, offends Him to no ends. Thus we accept to live in – suspended animation – till death.
(And somehow misery “Blessed be the poor, the meek…” is a virtue.)
But, at roots, we are natural beings.
Happiness is one of the ingredients that is included in the natural act of being human. Happiness awaits in us to be triggered, to be received, to be felt. Happiness is a natural essence. But over and over, we are told to rid ourselves of our natural essence. – As we do not and cannot succed in disconnecting ourselves from our natural “nature” – we feel guilty. We, trying to please ourselves and not “God”, sin. Then we fear the wrath of “God”.
We have constructed around ourselves and around our minds a bubble so thick, so opaque, that we cannot see the real world. From our bubble we keep the world at a safe distance… We make it the purpose of our existence to denaturalize the “Source” out of our soul. And, we are absolutely convinced that that has no concequences.
We pound (or have it pounded) in our head a book of instructions (morality) that has nothing to do with the real nature of our lives and find it “scary” to open nature’s real book of instructions.
The trap is well laid.
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Happiness comes from an act of consciousness. And thinking. And, the courage to un-brainwash ourselves. It is awesomely worth it.
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For more information, read the book “A Natural Philosophy”.
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A Natural Philosophy