{"id":13874,"date":"2024-07-11T16:29:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2024-09-08T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T11:05:44","slug":"a-deep-spring-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensanghafoundation.org\/newsite\/dhamma-dingleberry\/a-deep-spring-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deep Spring of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mountain Dhamma<\/p>
The Buddhist world is overflowing with academic minded people who hold up a clipboard of sutta criteria to evaluate your experience and see if it fits what that nonlivivng text says. But that\u2019s not where or what the Dhamma is. The Dhamma is this very real, very alive, bottomless well of happiness that flows inside, covered over by greed, hatred, and delusion, muddied by hinderances, distorted by this cyclical pursuit of stimulating activities. But despite all that obstruction, when we can stop, it takes only a slight turn in the right direction to see this happiness that\u2019s always already here. And when you see it, stay with it and be satisfied. As you remain looking at this causeless happiness, it will grow and overflow all the defilements that once covered it over, and the endless seeking for stimulating sensory activities, stimulating ideas and answers, will become valueless, like straw in your hand. \u201cProblems\u201d that once occupied decades of discussions will look like a single grain of dust on your pants, and you\u2019ll laugh or giggle when they arise in the mind, starved for attention. It\u2019s really that simple, there\u2019s nothing to it. Don\u2019t worry, be happy.<\/h6>\n
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The Buddhist world is overflowing with academic minded people who hold up a clipboard of sutta criteria to evaluate your experience and see if it fits what that nonlivivng text says. But that\u2019s not where or what the Dhamma is. The Dhamma is this very real, very alive, bottomless well of happiness that flows inside, covered over by greed, hatred, and delusion, muddied by hinderances, distorted by this cyclical pursuit of stimulating activities. But despite all that obstruction, when we can stop, it takes only a slight turn in the right direction to see this happiness that\u2019s always already here. And when you see it, stay with it and be satisfied. As you remain looking at this causeless happiness, it will grow and overflow all the defilements that once covered it over, and the endless seeking for stimulating sensory activities, stimulating ideas and answers, will become valueless, like straw in your hand. \u201cProblems\u201d that once occupied decades of discussions will look like a single grain of dust on your pants, and you\u2019ll laugh or giggle when they arise in the mind, starved for attention. It\u2019s really that simple, there\u2019s nothing to it. Don\u2019t worry, be happy.<\/h6>\n