Rainbo/Mira/happiness?

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>Rainbo:

>> I would not ask, "where is happiness" this is something from

>> our Declaration of Independence a word chosen...

>> perhaps "Where is Bliss?" "Where is Serenity?" "Where is

>> the Light?" "Where is the Love?" "Where is Peace?"

>

>How about:

>"That which my whole being naturally desires?", regardless of what I have

>named it?

>

>Love,

>Mira

 

The questions are now getting more basic. Now we are asking with the whole

being. The intellect can only ask partialized questions about particular

states and qualities. The whole being can ask one question that gets

to the root of things. The whole being is asking for itself. It wants

itself because it wants all. "I" desires everything because it experiences

itself as partial. Its own desire, at root, emanates from the all it

wishes for. Nothing will satisfy the whole being except the very root of

its desire for all, until the fire that illuminates the core of that desire

has become

a blaze.

 

The "obstacles" or "partializations" are forms of perceived limitation and

separation, and those obstacles must be placed in proper perspective in

order for desire to illuminate its core. This "proper perspective" is the

vision of how limitation arises in experience - such vision may not contend

fully with partialization if panaceas such as "Self is all," or "God is

Love," or "Nothing is everything," or "Reality is Emptiness" are taken as

mantras that cure all ills. Limitation arises "now" from "now" as "what

is" separates itself in the act of perception. Only "catching itself in

the act" will "cure all ills". If it doesn't catch itself, it will be

"placed within" its act, and will then be contending with various aspects

of its self-fragmentation. This self-fragmentation functions as habituated

memory patterns of perception recurring in loops of experience, until

whatever "now" arises in purity from Itself.

 

With love - Dan