Happiness and job

[ShardMare]

 Im reading a book about myths of happiness. Theres a part saying: "I'll be happy when i get my dream job". The psychologist talks about hedonic adaptation. We get used to our jobs too: the pay, the stimulation(maybe we get bored and we want more and even harder challanges). She writes about people who work at Google and they have lots of games to play with, they can bring their pets to the job, really good food food free, high-pay,etc, but they still find a thing to complain about. get it why success wont make people happy, lots of times we crave bigger after the few hours of dopamine. But like what about a person who likes drawing and he is and artist? He just gets joy from painting. Does he get used to the joy of drawing? Is this joy or stimulation really just an additional thing for his happiness? Because another time he will want more stimulation from painting? Why shouldnt we think this way that "I'll be happy when i will have a job that i enjoy"? Why is it false? We shouldnt base our happiness on external things?

[Princess Arabia]

You will NEVER be forever happy; because the you that wants to be happy is an illusion. When the happiness energy arises, the "you" latches unto and claim it as yours. But it never lasts because there's no you. It's the Absolute appearing as happiness, the absolute is not in a box but the individual tries to capture it. It appears and disappears. All that happens now are stories and memories about what it thought it experienced which is also the Absolute appearing as stories and memories, as what's happening here. Endless loop for the one that thinks it's separate which creates suffering, which is also the Absolute appearing as a person suffering. The only way to end all this is for the individual to die, and when whatever appears is just that, what's appearing without any ideas about it, but for no one, who was never there to begin with.

The l, is the dream. This is why no one is ever satisfied for long or fulfilled. There's no one to be satisfied or fulfilled. 

Edited April 28 by Princess Arabia

[Ishanga]

3 hours ago, ShardMare said:

 Im reading a book about myths of happiness. Theres a part saying: "I'll be happy when i get my dream job". The psychologist talks about hedonic adaptation. We get used to our jobs too: the pay, the stimulation(maybe we get bored and we want more and even harder challanges). She writes about people who work at Google and they have lots of games to play with, they can bring their pets to the job, really good food food free, high-pay,etc, but they still find a thing to complain about. get it why success wont make people happy, lots of times we crave bigger after the few hours of dopamine. But like what about a person who likes drawing and he is and artist? He just gets joy from painting. Does he get used to the joy of drawing? Is this joy or stimulation really just an additional thing for his happiness? Because another time he will want more stimulation from painting? Why shouldnt we think this way that "I'll be happy when i will have a job that i enjoy"? Why is it false? We shouldnt base our happiness on external things?

Firstly All Your Experience happens within YOU, no where else, it is not found in any person, place or thing, or ideology.  The only thing is, is Your Happiness Self Generated or Dependent on outside Stimuli, if it is the latter then Your a Slave to Outside situations and circumstances, things being a certain way, Possessions and Relationships being present and steady, if they are not then what? 

When You really Realize that Your Experience only Happens within YOU, then You start to find it, and explore how does this process work? When You discover how it works, then You can actually create what You want to happen within You, do You want Joy or Misery, Excitement or Boredom, its up to You what You want to Experience, but You can create what You want within You, its part of what it means to be a Human Being.. 

So First establish Your BEING, the above is what that is, creating Your Experience as You want it, then go out and DO action and HAVE what You want to Have in Life, most are doing it backwards, first DOING--->HAVING-->BEING, problem with this is that things don't always go as planned, they never do actually and ppl never get to the BEING part, so first establish BEING, when that is done, whether or not the DOING/HAVING part works out, your on stable ground and Life will not touch You in a significant way, Suffering is impossible in this situation!

[Hojo]

The goal in finding happiness is to stop the mind from throwing out instant verbal and emotional thought towards a thought as a reaction. This is what unconscious thought is and it drives away happiness. The mind says I have to work today. The reaction toward that thought oh no I have to work I hate working work sucks I hate my life. To find happiness one must have the thought I have to work today and then nothing and then action.

You are comparing two different things work and creativity here. The mind flows with creativity and struggles with work.

I believe merging the two into one word is what is trying to be accomplished . It cant be done with every job and if you cant do it with your job the job is not for you and its a signal to move on.

We have infinite imagination to play with here in life and if someone can learn to control the mind it can be very nice.

 

Edited April 29 by Hojo