How to go about addictions in this way?

[ShardMare]

 

 

Dr K said and also i've read a book on happiness that we always want more. A successful doctor, banker, lawyer who has lots of money and could retire still works, still wants a bigger position and more money. And they said these things dont actually make you happy they just keep you in a wheel.

Also a weird stuff is that Dr K said in an interview is that when he was 22 year old he was ready to go for the spiritual path but his teacher was like no, u should go to university, get a doctorate, live a material life. Then let go from these things. I dont understand why. Even if you know it wont make you happy u still should go live a material life, make lots of money, experience lower conscious rewards?

 

And also should you just go for balance and just have fun, do whatever if happiness comes from inside and success and outside things wont make you happy?

If hoarding knowledge, being loved, thinking etc. can be an addiction then is the ultimate goal is to be content with being? Should u be happy just by being? Or is the mix of love, money, carrer, friends, thinking(or knowledge or spirituality) is fine?

[Princess Arabia]

Happiness is temporary because you are happiness itself. Sadness is temporary because you are sadness itself. All these states are arising from the permanent, which is you and that's why they are fleeting. Chase neither. See them for what they are and don't identify with them because that will bring with it suffering. Suffering from the illusion of separation as when one chop it's leg off from the body. Nothing is separate but the appearance of separation and the seeking of the different states and the identifying with the body is where the suffering comes from. 

Doesn't matter what happens in this scenario, the result will be the same if something or some state is being chased after and it doesn't matter what state. You cannot be happy by just being because being is no-thing that needs to be happy or anything because it is no-thing and everything simultaneously.

Edited April 2 by Princess Arabia

[Raze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0A6Rw7KnvA

[ShardMare]

@Princess Arabia but why should we try to be happy if we are depressed? Why do anything at all?

 

And also should i listen to this advice? Because you are much more developed consciously and maybe i shouldnt apply this stuff.

@Raze i've only watched the first episode. I think being, mindfulness brings calmness and some contentment.

It depends how we define happiness.