Comments on: Find Happiness 9: How to Detach Yourself from Your Thoughts http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm A Guide to Being Peaceful Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:16:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lucky Balaraman http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1357 Lucky Balaraman Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:16:47 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-1357 Hi Jane, In reality nothing 'comes' to you. You gradually realize your true nature. A rough analogy is like this: you are a poor vegetable seller in a kingdom. Then, by reading official birth-death records, you slowly realize that you are actually the queen of the kingdom, the queen who was kidnapped at birth. You then claim and assume your rightful throne. (Nothing came to you, you just found something out). To answer your question, yes, if you meditate for at least five minutes a day, you CAN realize that you are basically unshakably peaceful. But of course, the kind of meditation you do is important. Let me know what you're doing and I can give you further guidance. Best, Lucky ///// Hi Jane,

In reality nothing ‘comes’ to you. You gradually realize your true nature. A rough analogy is like this: you are a poor vegetable seller in a kingdom. Then, by reading official birth-death records, you slowly realize that you are actually the queen of the kingdom, the queen who was kidnapped at birth. You then claim and assume your rightful throne. (Nothing came to you, you just found something out).

To answer your question, yes, if you meditate for at least five minutes a day, you CAN realize that you are basically unshakably peaceful. But of course, the kind of meditation you do is important. Let me know what you’re doing and I can give you further guidance.

Best,

Lucky

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]]> By: Lucky Balaraman http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1356 Lucky Balaraman Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:08:44 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-1356 Gabe: Being at peace IS the state of happiness. Being at peace means you realize that you are the backdrop in front of which thoughts are active, just like the backdrop of a stage. The backdrop is always perfectly still and unaffected by what the actors are doing. In the case of a living being, the backdrop is 'an aware backdrop', i.e. it is aware of the actors acting in front of it (the actors are thoughts). Please think about this carefully and come back to me with your next question. Discovering inner peace is something that has to be done gradually (like learning tennis!). Best, Lucky Gabe:

Being at peace IS the state of happiness. Being at peace means you realize that you are the backdrop in front of which thoughts are active, just like the backdrop of a stage. The backdrop is always perfectly still and unaffected by what the actors are doing.

In the case of a living being, the backdrop is ‘an aware backdrop’, i.e. it is aware of the actors acting in front of it (the actors are thoughts).

Please think about this carefully and come back to me with your next question. Discovering inner peace is something that has to be done gradually (like learning tennis!).

Best,

Lucky

]]> By: Gabe http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1355 Gabe Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:06:32 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-1355 This all sounds good and all, and believe me, a definite step in the right direction to what I can hopefully call "enlightenment", but shouldn't being at peace make you happy? Isn't happiness what enlightenment is all about? I guess what I'm asking is: Can you do this, and still hold on to the happiness, as if it's a bird that you want to keep as a pet? Would it still work the same way? This all sounds good and all, and believe me, a definite step in the right direction to what I can hopefully call “enlightenment”, but shouldn’t being at peace make you happy? Isn’t happiness what enlightenment is all about? I guess what I’m asking is: Can you do this, and still hold on to the happiness, as if it’s a bird that you want to keep as a pet? Would it still work the same way?

]]> By: jane http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1282 jane Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:31:52 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-1282 I came into this one because of my search for the answer to my questions. I am currently on a course where the fourth stage is awakening where by grace i should be awakened . One step is this , to separate myself from my body, thought and emotions. Since i still couldnt imagine how to do it exactly, I came to this site. Now after reading what you wrote here, somehting was added to what I knew, thanks ! Let me ask you, if I meditate few minutes everyday doing what you told, will it come to me even without me knowing it? Thanks I came into this one because of my search for the answer to my questions. I am currently on a course where the fourth stage is awakening where by grace i should be awakened . One step is this , to separate myself from my body, thought and emotions. Since i still couldnt imagine how to do it exactly, I came to this site. Now after reading what you wrote here, somehting was added to what I knew, thanks ! Let me ask you, if I meditate few minutes everyday doing what you told, will it come to me even without me knowing it?

Thanks

]]> By: Shafeeq http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-735 Shafeeq Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:02:12 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-735 'Who is aware of the thought?' -- Say it is me/I. Is being aware of the thoughts an inherent ability of the 'I' ? Why is it then that 'I' am not aware of my thoughts when i am deep asleep? If thoughts are just manifestations of just neuronal activities (which it is) and if there is a distinct real 'I' that is very different from my thoughts why is that 'I' am not able to perceive your thoughts but able to perceive mine? Dont you think that in that case the act of awareness / perception itself is a manifestation of neuronal activity of my brain albeit of a different kind from the one which gives rise to the thoughts? May be this method gives some peace to troubled minds. Let it. But is there a logical flaw in my above argument? ‘Who is aware of the thought?’ — Say it is me/I. Is being aware of the thoughts an inherent ability of the ‘I’ ? Why is it then that ‘I’ am not aware of my thoughts when i am deep asleep?
If thoughts are just manifestations of just neuronal activities (which it is) and if there is a distinct real ‘I’ that is very different from my thoughts why is that ‘I’ am not able to perceive your thoughts but able to perceive mine? Dont you think that in that case the act of awareness / perception itself is a manifestation of neuronal activity of my brain albeit of a different kind from the one which gives rise to the thoughts?
May be this method gives some peace to troubled minds. Let it. But is there a logical flaw in my above argument?

]]> By: Lucky http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-605 Lucky Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:00:43 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-605 Love your answer, Jordi. Emotions might be part of the human mind's evolution, yes. But as a guideline for you... let me ask you something, who is the 'you' you're talking about? If it is Stillness or Awareness, there is no movement possible and therefore no following of guidelines possible. Love your answer, Jordi. Emotions might be part of the human mind’s evolution, yes. But as a guideline for you… let me ask you something, who is the ‘you’ you’re talking about? If it is Stillness or Awareness, there is no movement possible and therefore no following of guidelines possible.

]]> By: Lucky http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-604 Lucky Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:55:03 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-604 I'm happy that you are free-flying beyond the confines of your mind. You are most fortunate. Will definitely stop by your blog and leave a comment. Best Lucky I’m happy that you are free-flying beyond the confines of your mind. You are most fortunate. Will definitely stop by your blog and leave a comment.
Best
Lucky

]]> By: Jordi Mauri Sole http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-597 Jordi Mauri Sole Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:42:11 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-597 Hi, nice post really. Regarding the emotions I agree I AM not them, but aint they a guideline for us since they are there to help us survive from an evolution point of view...? I do not know is the question is clear. It was just a thought (which IS NOT ME by the way¨...) :) Hi, nice post really. Regarding the emotions I agree I AM not them, but aint they a guideline for us since they are there to help us survive from an evolution point of view…? I do not know is the question is clear. It was just a thought (which IS NOT ME by the way¨…) :)

]]> By: Patrice http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-596 Patrice Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:36:46 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-596 I strongly believe this Lucky. The firs time I came to this realization was when I read the book 'The Power of Now' by Eckharte Tolle. I even wrote on it myself. Find here: http://www.climbreachachieve.net/2010/05/you-are-not-your-mind.html I would appreciate it if you also stop by my blog http://climbreachachieve.net *Great Post I strongly believe this Lucky. The firs time I came to this realization was when I read the book ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckharte Tolle. I even wrote on it myself. Find here: http://www.climbreachachieve.net/2010/05/you-are-not-your-mind.html

I would appreciate it if you also stop by my blog http://climbreachachieve.net

*Great Post

]]> By: uhm http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm/comment-page-1#comment-232 uhm Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:08:26 +0000 http://calmandcool.com/216/find-happiness-9.htm#comment-232 uh i think this would turn me into a schizophrenic uh i think this would turn me into a schizophrenic

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