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Silence is the highest teaching.. They say.

@Khan 0 are you the old user james?

OI'm not. I'm simply stating a fact. Happiness is our real nature. All enlightened teachers say that. Maybe do the work to realize that. Do you meditate?

LOL. How do you calculate it?

@Blackhawk don't project your negativity onto ohers. Just because you are miserable in life doesn't mean everyone should or are miserable as well.

In your opinion.. What are the characteristics of a mentally healthy person?

True happiness is effortless. It's our real nature.

So this is a new (or new old) way to try to conceptualize reality and make sense of it. The distinctions here are arbitrary and completely relative but nevertheless here we go. There is basically only two things in all of existence.. Forms and formlessness. That's it. There isn't and never was and never will be anything else. The forms ALWAYS are limited and impermanent. The formless ONLY is unlimited and permanent. The two Are actually identical but it's hard for the mind to make sense of that (how could these forms be formless?). Instead try to think of it this way.. The formless is the container of forms. You might ask "where are all these forms taking place"? "where does existence happening"? And the answer is really nowhere.. Reality is happening inside of nothingness. If we erase all forms from existence.. What's left? Only pure formlessness. Pure nothingness. So that's like what's underneath all forms. Or the container of all forms.. The original state that then comes different forms and appear inside of it. So this present moment that's happening right now is 50 % forms and 50 % formlessness. We usually don't think of it this way.. We think "it's just forms it's just reality where is this formlessness?". Lol ofcourse you can't see it because it's not a form. It has no qualities whatsoever and that's precisely why and how it is present everywhere and every when yet you can't see it.. Because you can only see forms. But how come forms are present without a container? There must be a container that contains all these forms and it can't be anything else but formlessness. Think about an empty glass that is necessary to have some water or any substance inside of it. But instead what we have here is not an empty "glass".. But rather pure emptiness. Now you might ask.."where did all these forms come from then"? Here there is really no answer. It's pure magic. But the trick is that ultimately all forms appear and disappear.. They are just like dreams or hallucinations.. Forever appearing and disappearing. There is no rational explanation whatsoever why forms are here (the answer is actually that form is formlessness but it's near impossible to make sense of it rationally without a mystical experience). But the only way to relate to it is by understanding that all forms are ultimately a temporary passing show that means absolutely nothing and was never ought to be anything substantial or to form a "reality". The only full realness is to the all mighty nothingness.

@gettoefl what else matters but happiness?

Let's not take our blissings for granted.. I will start... I'm grateful for : - a roof over my head. -my family -having access to food and water. - my health. -warm house. -this awesome platform. What are you grateful for?

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The mystery of mysteries

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@Nahm You said "not believing thoughts" as an Indication of mental health .. Can I know what does it have to do with mental health?

I mean in a negative sense. Negative importance you can say. That we should not believe them and such.

@Thought Art meta-grateful

@BlueOak good list

@Nahm what's so special about thoughts? Why do you give them so much importance?

@Epikur why do you hate Islam so much?

@How to be wise it served good function in stage blue society.

Why is that the criteria?

What is the percentage of what we choose to what's chosen for us?

It's religious nonsense? I don't think so. It is indeed a fantasy. In the present moment you wouldn't call your experience heavenly or hellish.. It's somewhere in the middle. Life has all kinds of opposites that compliment each other. One of them couldn't exist without the other. Up and down.. Good and bad.. Light and darkness.. Happiness and misery.. Pleasure and pain etc. The same creative power that created the beautiful stars and rainbows.. The sunset.. The birds the trees and the breeze.. The nature the sea.. This same creative Powe is able to create an infinitely beautiful reality that feels like an endless orgasm.. Yes it is. This same creative power that creeated the starving stomach ..the cancer.. The plague..the pain of being burned or bleeding to death.. The pain of being eaten alive.. Who made all this horrible stuff? The same creative power. The same creative power is able to create an infinitely painful reality that feels like being burned forever.. Hell. Nothing could prevent reality from manifesting hell or heaven .. And since the source is not separate.. You could manifest it. If you are not careful you might very well create hell.. If you follow the inner compass you are heading towards heaven. Metaphorical or not.. Happiness was Never a metaphor.. And pain was never and can never be an illusion. Because illusions do not exist. I laugh my ass off whenever I hear a faint of an argument about reality being illusory.. Here it is dummy.. If you have eyes to look.. Look. If you have ears to hear.. Hear. What else matters but happiness?? If you have tasted the beauty that this creative power is able to create.. . And you have tasted the pain that it is able to create as well.... You gotta figure out your way to heaven. Everyone is different. Your heaven is not my heaven.. Since its fantasy but it's real!. The only purpose of life if any is to actualize YOUR heaven.

What I'm saying is that life can get heavenly or hellish depending on how you choose to live it

In one word or one sentence.. What's the root of all evil?