Can happiness be found through anything?
- Jiddu Krishnamurti: We seek happiness through things, through
relationship, through thoughts, ideas. So
things, relationship, and ideas become all-important
and not happiness. When we seek
happiness through something, then the thing becomes
of greater value than happiness
itself. When stated in this manner, the problem
sounds simple and it is simple. We seek
happiness in property, in family, in name; then
property, family, idea become all important,
for then happiness is sought through a means, and
then the means destroys the
end.
- Can happiness be found through any means,
through anything made by the hand or
by the mind? Things, relationship, and ideas are so
transparently impermanent, we are
ever made unhappy by them...Things are impermanent,
they wear out and are lost;
relationship is constant friction and death awaits;
ideas and beliefs have no stability, no
permanency. We seek happiness in them and yet do not
realize their impermanency. So
sorrow becomes our constant companion and overcoming
it our problem.
- To find out the true meaning of happiness, we must
explore the river of self-knowledge.
Self-knowledge is not an end in itself. Is there a
source to a stream? Every drop of water
from the beginning to the end makes the river. To
imagine that we will find happiness at
the source is to be mistaken. It is to be found
where you are on the river of self knowledge.
No comments:
Post a Comment