The Battle Between Happy and Sad

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one that contains mostly good things and we can change our perceptions of things to be more positive — or some combination thereof. We can become happier and less sad by altering our life situation and perception of it.</p><p id="ad46">But is constant happiness the ultimate goal? Is there something even better that is not utterly dependent on our life situation and perception of it?</p><p id="b629">Happy and Sad are polarities just like up and down, back and forth, rich or poor, black or white. short or tall, boy or girl, far or near, teacher or student, good or bad, etc. It’s all part of the duality aspect of our physical reality. Our perceptions are how we’ve been conditioned to react (rather than respond) to that reality.</p><p id="a02a">But is there something that is not duality-based that is better than merely trying to stay on one side of a duality? Is there something we can experience that is oneness-based instead of duality-based which can pervade and alter our life situation? Something even grander than fleeting happiness?</p><p id="1f01" type="7">“Happiness depends on conditions perceived as positive. Inner peace does not.” — Eckhart Tolle</p><p id="f002">Have you ever met someone who despite harrowing life conditions is completely at peace?</p><p id="7de1">Inner peace is not something that we have to work really, really hard to attain. It already exists and can be found deep within us. And it permeates all of existence. Happy and

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Sad go up and down on the see-saw and inner peace is the fulcrum upon which the see-saw sits.</p><p id="8e68">Through the cessation of thinking and habitual perceptual reactions we can become the silent, still observer and begin seeing the peace that pervades all. We can begin to respond to life situations instead of reacting in conditioned ways. We can begin to <b>feel</b> the inner peace that resides at the very core of our being. And then we will want to <b>feel </b>it more and more. We will want to live in that state all the time. We will realize that living in a duality-based physical world while in a state of oneness-based inner peace is what we’ve always wanted to do.</p><p id="0057"><i>Copyright by <a href="https://readmedium.com/white-feather-archive-index-c95167f7dbaf"><b>White Feather</b></a>. All Rights Reserved.</i></p><p id="3e06"><i>More inspiration…</i></p><div id="3463" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/creativity-and-the-void-5fb59dc0135"> <div> <div> <h2>Creativity and the Void</h2> <div><h3>Fear of the emptiness of letting go</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*7yxCmA4Y85ZVuSNBOGGHHw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Finding peace

Happy and Sad love to have fun on the playground. One of their favorite games is the see-saw. Happy will get on one end and Sad on the other and for hours they will go up and down, up and down.

Happiness utterly depends on conditions being perceived as positive. Sadness utterly depends on conditions being perceived as negative. It’s all about perception.

How we perceive our world is usually a conditioned reaction. Since childhood we have been trained how to perceive things and situations. We have been taught that a small child playing with a puppy is a good thing and a happy thing so when we see it we automatically perceive it as a good thing and we are happy. We have been taught that a masked man bludgeoning a puppy with a baseball bat is a bad thing so we perceive it thusly and we become sad.

That’s just basic noggin science. Our world is full of good things and bad things so we are constantly vacillating between happy and sad, like the ongoing up and down of the see-saw. Of course everyone wants to be happy. We can change our environment to one that contains mostly good things and we can change our perceptions of things to be more positive — or some combination thereof. We can become happier and less sad by altering our life situation and perception of it.

But is constant happiness the ultimate goal? Is there something even better that is not utterly dependent on our life situation and perception of it?

Happy and Sad are polarities just like up and down, back and forth, rich or poor, black or white. short or tall, boy or girl, far or near, teacher or student, good or bad, etc. It’s all part of the duality aspect of our physical reality. Our perceptions are how we’ve been conditioned to react (rather than respond) to that reality.

But is there something that is not duality-based that is better than merely trying to stay on one side of a duality? Is there something we can experience that is oneness-based instead of duality-based which can pervade and alter our life situation? Something even grander than fleeting happiness?

“Happiness depends on conditions perceived as positive. Inner peace does not.” — Eckhart Tolle

Have you ever met someone who despite harrowing life conditions is completely at peace?

Inner peace is not something that we have to work really, really hard to attain. It already exists and can be found deep within us. And it permeates all of existence. Happy and Sad go up and down on the see-saw and inner peace is the fulcrum upon which the see-saw sits.

Through the cessation of thinking and habitual perceptual reactions we can become the silent, still observer and begin seeing the peace that pervades all. We can begin to respond to life situations instead of reacting in conditioned ways. We can begin to feel the inner peace that resides at the very core of our being. And then we will want to feel it more and more. We will want to live in that state all the time. We will realize that living in a duality-based physical world while in a state of oneness-based inner peace is what we’ve always wanted to do.

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