Unconditional hapiness: a pipe dream?

[lmfao]

I've often bought into the idea of unconfitional happiness being at least theoretically possible. I was travelling aboard recently in Africa and was/am extremely sick whilst doing a lot of moving around. This was a source of suffering. I was in the sahara desert on a camel, being very cold and at one point my tiredness from travelling with illness made me delirious to the point where I thought I was literally going insane and had lost my mind completely. My sense of reality was stripped away in the most negative way possible, I had an emotional breakdown from all the fatigue of travelling with a painful illness. I slept it off thankfully. The experiences I had were so painful, I find it hard to believe that I could have dissolved all of it. 

And another thing, I see these beggars and poor children in the street and just wonder why there is just so much absurdly amounts of suffering. How is this infinite love? Maybe when you're suffering is mild and you have an OK health you can sense the beauty of reality and see through the illusiveness of thoughts but how is someone less fortunate to be happy? Has God just destined some people to be born in lives of absolute misery? Is all of this suffering supposed to be good? 

[mandyjw]

@lmfao How did you feel about the trip, the travel experience as a whole? Would you go back and do it again? 

[lmfao]

@mandyjw the sickness has made me more grateful for my health. All in all I would probably do something similar again, I did have some fun. Looking back it was a funny experience I suppose. 

[mandyjw]

@lmfao Always try to judge the experience as a whole. No one says that Harry Potter is a terrible series or not worth reading because Voldemort is in it. No Voldemort, no book. 

[Nahm]

It’s much like thinking. You can’t really stop thinking, and you can’t be unconditionally happy. You can do practices in which thinking subsides, and you can inspect your conditions allowing your true nature to surface. Your health will thank you. 

By letting all of your thinking go, you will realize the answers to those questions. 

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, lmfao said:

I find it hard to believe that I could have dissolved all of it. 

You can't dissolve it.

You must die.

You still aren't appreciating how radical unconditional happiness is. It only comes AFTER death.

[Gabriel Antonio]

8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You can't dissolve it.

You must die.

You still aren't appreciating how radical unconditional happiness is. It only comes AFTER death.

Be careful with the words you use! There are a lot of emotionally vulnerable people who might interpret this literally. 

Edited April 22, 2019 by Gabriel Antonio

[lmfao]

@Leo Gura @Nahm@mandyjw

10 hours ago, Nahm said:

It’s much like thinking. You can’t really stop thinking, and you can’t be unconditionally happy. You can do practices in which thinking subsides, and you can inspect your conditions allowing your true nature to surface. Your health will thank you. 

By letting all of your thinking go, you will realize the answers to those questions. 

 

12 hours ago, mandyjw said:

@lmfao Always try to judge the experience as a whole. No one says that Harry Potter is a terrible series or not worth reading because Voldemort is in it. No Voldemort, no book. 

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

You can't dissolve it.

You must die.

You still aren't appreciating how radical unconditional happiness is. It only comes AFTER death. 

?, thanks for the responses