Originally Posted by
AlanLa
If Vegas was able to take bets on such things, I would've cleaned up on what Jundo said. I had it pegged pretty darn close. I would only add that when be sad, go ahead and be sad, but go do something that might bring you happiness so that you are less sad. It's the old acceptance without acceptance. For example, if you are sad, be perfectly sad; but if talking a walk in the woods makes you happy, then go take that walk in the woods and be perfect in the happiness that it brings. I will be placing a heavy bet in Vegas that Jundo will agree on this. Cha-ching! .
Cha-ching, you have me pegged!
That should make you happy! :wink:
I guess, as I am older and move on in this Practice, I don't run toward "happiness" like I did in my younger days ... and I don't run from "sad" experiences as quickly. Sometimes, I sit still and don't run toward or from them at all!
And the things that make me happy are simpler and all around ... more than before they are the "things that money can't buy". (
I bought a new computer yesterday, and that sure will make me happy for awhile ... but not nearly as deeply as looking at the butterfly perched outside my window frame this morning).
I am
much much MUCH happier as a person than I was 30 years ago, even though that certainly does not mean I am happy about all of life all the time ... even the bitter parts. Certainly not! But there is a kind of Joy & Wholeness that transcends ordinary "happy" and "sad".
Cha-ching!
Gassho, J