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We,The People, are not happy
20 - Happiness as a guide
The Homo sapiens, living on Earth, are not the first attempts of Mother Nature to use the human species. She started more than one million years ago. The skeletons she left behind tells us of a rare perseverance. We know of the Ardipithicines - the Australopithecines - Homo habilis - Homo ergaster/erectus - Homo heidelbergensis - Homo neanderthalensis - Denisovans and Homo floresiensis. To persevere after so many failures, Mother Nature must know something that we don’t. Could she be learning from her mistakes? Could she have a good reason to keep improving the design? There is also a possibility that the Homo sapiens could be her last attempt before we follow the way of the dinosaurs.
How have the Homo sapiens served Mother Nature, so far? Over the past 200 years, we have plundered the natural resources. We polluted the air, rivers, and even the oceans. We are depleting oil reserves and possibly the minerals in the arable soil. We leave behind us plastic and radioactive waste that will last for thousands of years. We even caused global warming. Would you blame Nature for giving up on humanity?
Let’s assume that this was only a matter of time until we acquire some maturity. We - the Homo sapiens - have been on Earth only 300 000 years in a universe that is 13 billion years old and counting. We deserve another chance to get our lives aligned with nature. All we need is a little more time to discover the law “Use but don’t abuse”. We don’t learn fast. It is not our fault. It is the way we were created.
We also need some guidance. We need reward when doing the right thing and getting hurt by our mistakes. We already have a body that can hurt in many ways when being misused. The material world has a way to get our attention. No further improvement is needed in this area. We only need a better motivation to do good. It comes from the soul. It is called ‘happiness’.
Happiness is a consequence:
Happiness cannot be treated like an object. It is not a personal belonging. It is a consequence of what happens in the soul’s domain. You cannot look for happiness itself. You must search for its cause. Ask people the last time they experienced real happiness, and you will see that it does not happen very often.
Our second choice is ‘enjoyment’. It is plan B. This is when the soul is at peace. We know that it could be better. We assume that we are happy.
We must make a distinction between happiness and simple enjoyment.
In this video, people often do not distinguish between physical enjoyment and true happiness. You may enjoy glory, but can you rely on glory to have a happy life?
When people look outside themselves, the first thing that comes to mind is money. They have a good excuse. Their sense organs are focused outward. What they see around them is the material world. Their first impression is that money can buy anything. This might explain why their first attempt to find happiness is by seeking material possessions. Food and shelter are our first priority. Money brings survival but money has its limits. We need food. There is no limit to the quantity of food we can buy - only the quantity of food we can eat.
One day comes, hopefully, when we experience real happiness. You see the world in color instead of black and white. You got out of your cage! You are free! You are experiencing an increase of consciousness.
The next video shows people being reunited with their pets. It is surprising to see the strong bonds that people can develop with monkeys, donkeys, tigers, lions, geese, and even fish and alligators. It’s more than just enjoyment. It’s pure joy. This is not something money can buy. It’s universal happiness that even animals can enjoy.
In our lives, enjoyment and genuine happiness are often intertwined. True happiness can be so rare that we don’t expect to find it. Are we looking in all the wrong places? There is nothing wrong with enjoyment as long as we don’t become its prisoner. We should not let our servants become our masters.
Happiness does not have weight, color or shape. It belongs to the soul’s domain. We will never find it if we keep looking in the material world around us. Happiness is a consequence. Its main cause is an improvement of the soul. It comes from giving rather than receiving. Our search for happiness is our motivation to look for a way to break our glass ceiling. Participating in our own evolution may be our best source of happiness.
Who is using who?
We are using minerals as raw materials. We are using plants as food. We are using animals. We are on level 4 using the levels of matter, plants and animals below us. We should not be surprised if some day we discover that we are being used by the levels above us. Mother Nature could be using the Homo sapiens to serve her own purpose.
Imagine that you are on a higher level. You have an opportunity of using the levels below you. You could use humans to extract love from plants. After their death, you recycle their body. You clean the mess they left behind and harvest the love, freedom, consciousness and harmony they generated. You use your power to make them feel happy when they are improving their soul.
You could create a win/win situation. Humans improve their soul and speed up their evolution. You have a source of feelings and speed up your own evolution. The Homo sapiens cannot blame you for doing to them what they are doing to plants and animals. They have nothing to complain about.
We should treat the levels below us
like we want to be treated by the levels above us.
