Money is one of the most amazing tools on this planet, that we can utilize to have fun and do a lot of great things with.
However, the question whether it buys happiness or not is now going to come to an end.
Firstly, in order to buy happiness or not, we first have to figure out what happiness even is.
“To the vast majority of people in the world, the topic of happiness is both mystifying and complex. Philosophers in the west have thought about it for the past two and a half thousand years; psychologists and sociologists have experimented and conducted polls on it for the past hundred. Still there is little consensus and, if anything, there appears to be less happiness in the world today than ever.� – Dennis Waite
This is brilliant to me, because there is no CONCRETE definition for happiness.
Your Definition of Happiness Could Be Keeping You From True Happiness
How could we ever say that money could buy something that we don’t even know what it is let alone have it to begin with.
Well, it is the very way we have labeled what it means to be happy that has kept us from true happiness.
Before we get into that though….
I’m going to showcase one of the most famous icons in the world right now, Connor McGregor.
Not for the sake of single him out, but for the sake of shedding light unto the world.
Days after, his fight with Floyd Mayweather, Connor made $30,000 million.
Now in world where a lot of people equate money with happiness, let’s take a look at this video and ask yourself is this someone who looks happy after he got his DREAM FIGHT of which he made 10 times what he what makes during an average UFC fight.
However, if you watch this video this does not look like someone who if you asked the general public look like a happy guy.
Why?
#1. The Need To Stand Out.
Connor jumped in a ring that was not his fight, because he clearly wanted to be in the limelight.
And someone who needs to stand out, it means they need more which is a sign of internal uncomfortability.
Standing out means the need to be special, to be seen and those who NEED that, is because they lack from the inside.
Even if they look confident on the outside.
#2. Rage
The ref just slightly nudged him because it was his job, and Connor went completely psychotic, insane!
Why is that?
The reason why, is because it had nothing to do with the nudge and everything to do with the internal lack, that Connor was feeling.
Now, what about having a bad day, everyone has those?
If you take a look at most of his videos, you will see a bit of insanity inside every one of his videos, like REAL anger inside.
Now a good amount of that is probably for show, publicity and what not, but you can feel the energy is hot.
Now, prior to moving on I want to make things 100% clear in that there is nothing wrong with Connor, he’s just operating out of the consciousness that he has been given.
Every one of us are operating out of a consciousness that we have been given.
The point was not to single him out, but after $30 million if what it did was to give you happiness or internal freedom, then the absolute rage and insanity to this extent would not come out, because it would not be there.
The reason it came out is because that is what was inside.
Getting pissed off, angry or upset is not the challenge of yours it is an emotion but there is a key difference.
Does this stuff take over your soul or not?
If you take a look at the sports world where fame and fortune comes in waves.
The investing world where fortune is at its peak.
If there is a rage inside, then it does matter to what extent your fame and fortune is.
Now let’s dive a deeper into happiness.
“To the Advaita (Non-Duality) on the other hand, the subject is ever so simple.
There is only the Self and, accepting that we can never speak of this objectively, by definition, we can say that the self is happiness.
And that is really all there is to it.
Likewise, with the question of ‘meaning’ and ‘purpose’ in our lives. In the world in general, there are likely to be almost as many ideas and answers to these as there are people.
As far as the Advaita is concerned, of course, there are no people so perhaps this does not count for very much!
Furthermore, we know that concepts of meaning and purpose are simply that – ideas in mind. As such, their value is, at most, in their utility as tools to take the mind to the brink of understanding. Once there, all ideas must be surrendered so that the final leap can be made, extinguishing forever all identification with ego and mind. – Dennis Waite
In other words, what Dennis is saying is that happiness is not what you think.
In fact, it is because you never stop thinking that you are unhappy.
What he means by the self is that of what you feel in your direct awareness through the absence of thinking.
Once happiness stops being defined which is a label created from the mind and you can allow neutral awareness run through the body, you will feel what it means to be free.
This is why the most CONCRETE stance of happiness is whether your internally free not.
And the only answer to this can come in the present moment.
The question is, do I accept the way how this present moment looks outwardly?
This takes from the form that the present moment takes in terms of your life situation, circumstance into the dimension from within that does not take form.
Once you accept the way your situation/circumstance takes form in the present, it’s the doorway into the inner body sensation that I am here.
The inner body sensation that I am here is the REAL presence, reality which beyond your life circumstance or what is happening.
So the real question you should ask yourself to find out if you are internally free is am I AWARE of my own conscious presence?
The awareness of your own conscious presence is the self.
It does not require definition, subjectivity, bias, opinion, outlook, perspective all of which are mind & thought based.
The reason that the awareness of your own conscious presence is not subject to outlook is because it is the source of all that is.
So there is one absolute reason you are not internally free or unhappy.
And that is, you are stuck in time as in the past and future have you on strings, puppetized.
Connor didn’t jump in the ring because he wanted to celebrate with his teammate.
He wanted to be seen clearly.
The slight nudge the ref gave him is NOT what caused him to go outrageous.
Connor wanted to be seen, and he went outrageous because he has been stuck in time, ran by past and future.
And unless you can start making the present moment situation your friend, and you’re I am this conscious presence your fulfillment then NO amount of fame, fortune, power or influence will give you internal freedom.
Internal freedom happens when time stops becoming an absolute important factor in your life. It does have some importance being in this world, but not absolutely.
When you lose time in the moment, and you lose it deeply, and intensely from within you will realize that all the fame, fortune, power and influence in the world cannot TOUCH the intensity of lost time.
With this being said, however, there is nothing wrong with Connor, it’s the dysfunctional root that lies in the human mind, and my mind is no more or less crazy.
Luckily I found a way out of it.
In mind, Connor is separate.
Out of mind, Connor is the same source I am presence. There is no hate for him, there is nothing wrong with him, in fact I hope he could read this, because as a part of the same one I am, I want him to find the internal freedom from realizing the timeless absolute oneself.
The awareness of this one timeless self is love, and love is all that is.
Then money, fame, fortune, influence all have their place from within the hands of consciousness.
Shared with permission from our friends at Universoul Awakening.
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