The only path to causeless happiness is to listen.
How can something so trivial be the path to liberation? Normally we think that we have to perform mental calculus to somehow attain some certain knowledge which enables us to be happy.
but we don’t have to.
The subject / object relationship we seem to believe is at the heart of our dissatisfaction. It is the crack that allows the sense of separation to slip through and take hold. Through investigation and understanding we begin to realize that there never was a crack, only a mirage of a crack. In that sense, we “patch the crack” without ever touching it, because the only way to cure an illusion is to know that it is an illusion.
The ability to take a step back and remain witness to all of the fun that occurs in life protects us from the need to identify with the events that occur. Sorrow and grief become null and void in the light of who we really are, for who is there to be influenced by such trivialities. There only remains what was already there.
Through societal conditioning we have superimposed certain ideas onto our reality and with the integration with emotional energy, it becomes an anchor and the eventual lenses we peer the world through. We can and are able to destroy these false superimposition's and return back to what we actually are.
We superimpose a listener and that which is listened to onto the experience of listening. If we can allow whatever arises, and simply listen, we default to being the listening we are looking for. We don’t label or give form to the sound, and we don’t allow our memory of such a sound to cast a judgment.
We allow whatever we are “listening” to evolve in the openness that we are, and as such we return close to our true nature. This experience is not limited to listening strictly but it extends much further to feeling, seeing, touching etc. However, they’re just words to describe the same thing.
When there is a desire to do something, there is this sense of urgency that can be localized in the body. Before we act on the desire, we take a second to really listen to it. What we find is this space between us and the desire, and we return to the peaceful and silent observer.
Instead of focusing on the content of the desire we distill it into its core essence. The essence of desire itself is always the same but takes a multiplicity of forms and names. When we see the root of desire, we realize that all that it wants is to be desire less.
We have the false assumption that the acquisition of the content of our desires is the only path to happiness. Our desire seeks to be desire less, it seeks to rid of itself and find peace. There is no need to strive for the temporary experience of happiness when we can give it the conditions to always be at rest.
We can also listen to our fears in the same manner. We create distance between the witness and the fear itself. In time, it will dissolve back into the silence where it came from.
This is causeless happiness.
