Find Happiness 13: Have a Primary Happiness Teacher

The last thing you want to be in your search for happiness is CONFUSED.

It’s easy to get confused. That’s because there are many happiness teachers, and although groups of them say similar things, it is unlikely that any two teachers will say exactly the same thing.

So let us say that you are following two teachers, believing that they are both talking about the same approach to happiness. Let’s call them teacher #1 and teacher #2. You trust them both equally and have opened your mind to them like you would open the bonnet of your car to two mechanics.

One day, while reading the teachings of teacher #1, you come across a statement that is mildly inconsistent with what teacher #2 is saying. You start wondering which teacher is right. If you cannot get in touch with both of the teachers in person, and are depending on their books, your state of doubt can make you feel unsettled, so unsettled that you put your pursuit of happiness on hold pending resolution of your doubt, whenever that is. This unsettled state is usually one in which you are slightly preoccupied, which means that you are not giving full attention to the things happening to you. This is sub-optimal living and a waste of your precious life’s moments.

So what’s the solution to this?

You have to designate one of the teachers as your primary teacher. You have to have more trust in, let’s say, teacher #1 than teacher #2. In practical terms this means that you’ll have to take a policy decision that as far as major principles go, you will always go by what teacher #1 says come hell or high water. As far as minor principles go (by "minor principles" I mean principles that do not have an impact on the major principles), you can make your own decisions, even based on other teachers if you like.

Rest assured that if you sincerely pursue happiness, the Universe will always set you on the right path should you by some chance stray onto a wrong one.

All this said, the important thing to do, as in all fields of endeavor, is to TAKE ACTION.

Now go forward and succeed!

To your happiness and peace,

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