We Are the Happiness We Seek from the media We Are the Happiness We Seek

In this meditation we explore how the happiness we seek is revealed as the happiness we are. In order to discover the nature of our self, we turn away from everything that is not essential to us. We start with the process of discrimination or negation, ‘I am not my thoughts, feelings or perceptions; I am that which knows them’. In this way we come to know awareness, or the knowing element in all experience. We recognise that awareness is utterly one with our experience yet free from it, so we are not qualified or conditioned by any particular experience. Awareness does not lose or gain anything from experience. We, awareness, are complete, whole, perfect and inherently fulfilled. The absence of a sense of lack is felt as happiness. When we are happy, we feel complete and fulfilled, and this is the experience of our true nature. Happiness is simply the awareness of being.

In this meditation we explore how the happiness we seek is revealed as the happiness we are. In order to discover the nature of our self, we turn away from everything that is not essential to us. We start with the process of discrimination or negation, ‘I am not my thoughts, feelings or perceptions; I am that which knows them’. In this way we come to know awareness, or the knowing element in all experience. We recognise that awareness is utterly one with our experience yet free from it, so we are not qualified or conditioned by any particular experience. Awareness does not lose or gain anything from experience. We, awareness, are complete, whole, perfect and inherently fulfilled. The absence of a sense of lack is felt as happiness. When we are happy, we feel complete and fulfilled, and this is the experience of our true nature. Happiness is simply the awareness of being.