The Happiness
Matthieu Ricard, who is the happiest man in the wold says,
Anyone can be the happiest person in the world, if they look for happiness in the right place.
Being successful person doesn’t mean that you are happy.
Kate Spade, who is an award winning fashion designer committed suicide at her home in New York City and she was 55 years old.
Anthony Bourdian an American celebrity chef, an author and a travel documentarian also took his own life in a hotel room in France and he was 61 years old.
WHO: World Heal Organization says, in last 45 years suicide rate have increased by 60% worldwide. And also the reports says suicide is one of the leading cause of deaths among aged 15–44.
So let’s talk about Happiness, What is happiness?
Happiness is a state of mind, same like being sad, being upset, we can be happy in our mind. The point here to highlight is, we can only be happy in our mind there’s no other way someone can be happy.
If you think thoroughly you will realize that, there are six input devices gifted to humans, which are
- Eye
- Ear
- Nose
- Tongue
- Skin (all over the body)
- Mind
No matter, where you get the input from if your mind is not focusing on that input source, you can’t be happy. I’ll tell you an example to prove this. Imagine you are sleeping, and your favourite song is playing in the Radio or TV next to you. This means the sound waves are hitting the drum of your ear, but it doesn’t make you feel anything because your mind is in some other state where it doesn’t focus on the sound input at that time.
And if you have known only about five senses, Mind can be something new to you. But I’ll tell you a scenario where you will understand that the mind is also an input device which has senses. Try to remember an occasion where you can imagine a situation in your mind while closing the eyes (you can do it now). There you will realize that thoughts comes to your mind continuously same as you see things (colors and shapes) from your eyes, or your hear things (vibrations of matters) from your ear. So for the mind, thoughts (a form of energy) are the inputs. And if you think you control the thoughts, that’s not 100% correct. Yes of course you can control the thoughts but that doesn’t mean that all the thoughts come to your mind are controlled by you. There are energies which exists outside from you (in this universe) and once they hit the mind it generates a flow of thought in the mind. Same as you see something and you start to see.
Back to the topic, all the six senses or the six inputs are controlled towards the happiness that’s what all the humans want. Why? Because they want to be happy, all humans including me wants to be happy.
But then, haven’t you ever been happy in your life? You have, at least a one second. This can be when you see your loving ones, this can be passing an exam, getting a job, etc. So if we think that what humans want is, to be happy, then all of them have been happy in their life but still all of humans look for happiness. Then are we really looking for happiness or something more than that? Because if we found what we want, then why we still keep looking the same thing again and again. Because we are not satisfied with what we get. Being happy haven’t made us satisfied. That directs us to think we are looking for an ultimate happiness.
All of us think something in this world, which can be sensed from the 6 senses will satisfy us, will provide the ultimate happiness. But that’s incorrect. It’s true that the mind is looking for an ultimate happiness. But we’ve been looking it in the wrong place. Where does the ultimate happiness do exist?
