Pursue happiness?

Dear Lumír, first of all I would like to thank you for your posts full of wisdom and insights that resonate within me and that make me happy. However, I feel confused. I follow the teachings of Advaita as given by Mooji, Osho, Marcelka of the Mountains, Rupert Spira, Adyashanti, etc. Seeing the nature of reality as it is, right here and now. Seeing through the futility of all effort in the form of any "path", relaxing into the timeless present, into eternity. A release to create. I saw a link to Mooji's video also on the Heart of Dharma page. But the SD path is based on practice and perhaps considerable discipline, effort.. Or am I misunderstanding?

I have the urge within me to take the plunge, to finally start living a much more vital life, to confront my fears, to stop clinging to comforts and certainties... to do more for the journey! But I don't know if this thinking is just a subtle diversion to some gymnastics of the mind, another escape from myself, and whether I shouldn't rather dissolve this "wanting" in the present and observe and allow myself to feel whatever comes, without being influenced.. And that includes those desires... Asking the question? "There are desires, but who desires?" Could I ask you to comment?

..One of the new posts here lists your quote "Desire Absolute Liberation in this one life..." and the comment below it "Wish itself is a form of bondage".. that's my dilemma..

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Dear friend, thank You for all that You do for Yourself and for all others - in the sense of interest in knowledge - because whatever we understand for ourselves, we also understand for all other beings. Notice that you speak of "a subtle diversion to some gymnastics of the mind", whereas your question is just a subtle diversion to some gymnastics of the mind. The tendency to this kind of false philosophizing is the evasion that is called "useless speech" or "superfluous speech," that is, speech that is flat, that doesn't lead you to the real essence, to the core of it, it is speech that you know is really of no use to you. For you are after a speech that will enable you to have a Deeper Spiritual Experience than you have had up to now. I therefore suggest to you that you resolve to cut off in yourself the tendency to useless speech once and for all, so that you do not play these cruel games with yourself which will not lead you to the Light of Knowledge. But at the same time be kind to yourself and notice that without talking to yourself in this way it would be impossible for you to Spiritually Develop. Therefore, do not be angry with yourself, that would only be a hindrance to you.

Life is much simpler than complex philosophy. The true Spiritual Practice of any Individual who loves himself enough to take Responsibility for himself (which no one else can do for him) is directed from a cumbersome subjective experience of reality to an experience of reality that is Freed from cumbersomeness. The only way (and therefore the Only True Spiritual Practice) to achieve this in your own subjectivity is to ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to interfere with the rights and freedoms of your fellow human beings, which naturally entails that you only make promises to your fellow human beings that you actually want to keep, not others. Thus, what you Honestly offer makes you a Trustworthy being, and the quality of your relationships improves accordingly, and vice versa, which is quite naturally related to your subjective experience of reality. This practice should be balanced by SELF-QUESTIONING in the sense of, "What does everything the Buddha says mean to me alone?"

So life is not complicated, life is plain and simple, rather it is about unlearning the complicated by which one hinders and harms oneself. But for this, again paradoxically, your effort is needed, i.e., paradoxically, the desire for this QUALITY OF PURITY, the desire for your own tenacity, because only the tenacious and determined beings who truly care about themselves in this respect will embark on such a journey in their own interest... Other beings who do not make such an effort will fall asleep on their temporary worldly interests, and if they do, they will also naturally be reborn repeatedly in the round of birth and death of Samsara and associated states, with no certainty of meeting a Buddha again, no certainty that any of the Buddhas of all times will attend to them to provide an answer to their suffering. When you understand this, then in your life you quite naturally, without special speculation and therefore special effort, put aside what you already recognize as unprofitable for yourself, and at the same time offer UNDERSTANDING (REAL UNDERSTANDING) to all beings who have not yet understood what you have understood. The more you exert yourself and "strive" in this way, the more this initially challenging effort to change yourself becomes more natural to you, and the more natural it becomes to you, the more it becomes a JOY in which you no longer see any special effort simply because this JOY has become your natural quality, which no longer needs to be "achieved" in any special way. This state is called HAPPINESS. Here, in this moment, you enter beyond the state of the Duality of "good and evil" when you recognize that it is impossible for you to act against yourself, that is, it is impossible for you to act against others, regardless of whether it appears "good" or "evil" to anyone in their subjectivity and distress-laden subjectivity at the moment, when from the level of this REALisation of yours you realise your own CERTAINTY of your own PURITY. So, in this practice, effort must be made to discover possibilities that are not dependent on effort. This is the Paradox. At this point you are no longer acting on purpose to achieve some particular worldly goal, that is not what matters to you, you are merely opening up possibilities for cooperation with beings who are currently at a level that they are able to understand you and in their own self-interest, which is their own DIRECTION INTO CLIDE, cooperate with you in Mutual RESPECT to SHARE the KNOWLEDGE of BUDDHA that benefits all other beings, including those beings who do not yet understand what you have understood, for these beings will draw from this "imprint" when their KARMA matures and they RECOGNIZE their Grace...

So for you, it's about being dedicated to everything that gives you meaning and significance until it all loses its meaning and significance. As soon as it loses its meaning and significance, you lose yourself in that significance as the idea of "person" - that is the death of the ego, the state of being free from the idea of "I", the Ultimate Mental Liberation from all the psycho-physical hindrances and impurities of your subjectivity, which is the goal of every True Spiritual Practice, which cannot do without investing in it your own Sincerity in the sense of your own Willingness to Self-Love.

Until that happens, you don't even have a choice but to just devote yourself to what you are devoting yourself to. That is KARMA. And even if you think you have some other option, you don't, you only think you have a "free choice" while you are still in the drag of your own KARMA, which is the resultant of all the impurities you have not yet cleansed.

Thus, the ideal starting state for Every Single Being who desires their own Deliverance from the drag of KARMA is that they desire that which is beneficial to them and all other beings to the extent that they are currently able to understand it, and at the same time, such a being should be open, as you are, to not be ashamed or afraid to question in their own self-interest so that they can continue to develop spiritually and evolve. In this way, such a being wishes happiness for itself, and if it is able to wish happiness for itself, it is naturally able to wish happiness for beings who are not currently in a state to be able to wish happiness for themselves and all other beings currently in their karmic context. This way of wishing is the DEVELOPMENT OF COMPASSION for oneself and all other beings, and because this practice LIBERATES you from subjective suffering I say that COMPASSION IS THE BRANCH OF ENLIGHTENMENT, therefore it is also the only possible way of worldly wishing that is worthy of you, all other wishes are misguided and lead you astray into a Dream called Samsara, in which you are "ripped ashore" in a mental sense, leading to low psychopathological mental states of experiencing cumbersome KARMA. Simply put, the ideal is when you wish everything for everyone, regardless of whether you get it or not, because this state of mind of yours is a state of your own Mental Freedom, which is not compensated for by anything this temporary world has to offer. Try it now, right now, right now, and from this station of yours, look around at the suffering of all beings who are not currently in this station because they are not engaged in this spiritual practice. What you see is suffering. Therefore, anything that is not related to such practice is misleading, because out of it arises discontent, suffering, and therefore distress for you and everyone else.

Thus, regardless of whether it is Advaita, Mooji, Osho, Marcelka of the Mountains, Rupert Spira, Adyashanti, me, etc., take from the teachings of each what you currently consider beneficial for yourself, and at the same time learn to recognize what you no longer consider beneficial, and also naturally postpone and omit that as unbeneficial from your practice.

I have summarized all that I think is necessary to understand in my main link: MAITREYA BUDDHA SUTRA, or FREEDOM... THE MOTHER OF THE CHILDREN OF IMMORTALITY

May All Beings Realize Buddhahood!

Lumír Láska ♥ Buddha Maitreya