Mood: Happy

Inspired by the today journal of Stephanie, I'd like to share a use I do of those three concepts : Satisfaction, Happyness and Bliss (In french, I use the word "Plénitude", I'm not sure of this translation).

I call "satisfaction" this part of the duality Satisfaction/Unsatisfaction, this way of life (or part of it) that consists in searching positive emotions from the outside; when I do believe my inner life depends on the outside and I want to change it so that the outside corresponds to my desires. If I succeed to put a correct outside, then I'm satisfied. If the outside is not in phase with my willings or/and needings, then I'm unsatisfied. As the satisfaction is defined as the opposite of the unsatisfaction, it includes it inevitably. Like there is a part of Yin in the Yang, and vice versa. So, trying to live only the 'positive' part of it is just a lack of conscious as they depend the one on the other and you cannot experience satisfaction if you don't experience also unsatisfaction. There is, to me, another lack of conscious in the belief that my inner life depends on the outside, so this way of life is a fleeing from inner conflicts and leads to a bigger and bigger amount of them. My only way to get satisfaction is manipulation, as it needs to change what is out of my field of responsability.

I call "happyness" this part of the duality Happyness/Unhappyness, this way of life (or part of it) that consists in searching positive emotions in the conscious that I'm the only one that is responsible of my inner life. I have a dual idea of the world that I separate in good things and bad things for me, and I can search for my life to stay only in the good things, trying to change myself and operate in order to have that. As the happyness is defined as the opposite of unhappyness, then it includes it inevitably. So, trying to live only the 'positive' part of it is just a lack of conscious as they depend the one on the other and you cannot experience happyness if you don't experience also unhappyness. Also, one can make the conscious choice to experience the both sides of this vision of life, positive and negative, which can lead to a kind of peace for them. If one only want one part of this conception, the happyness, it manifests a lack of conscious and will leads to inevitable frustrations, hurts and sadnesses. This way of life leads to a real independancy from other people and events but stay in the prison of all dual conceptions, believing it's reality, and not being aware it's just a mind creation. It's a limitation in order to reach a freedom from mind and thoughts.

I call "bliss" this way of life that consists in getting free from all dual concepts and, instead of putting my energy to choose in which part of my dual conception, an inner or outer event belongs, I just put my energy in the factual attention of the event and I choose who I am in front of that, in a full responsability. I have no intention but being here and now, in love and attention (this 2 words describe actually the same thing), respect the full life and take my responsability in how I participate to it. Free of the prisons of the mind, cause now I observe it, I'm not identified to it, I don't experience emotions, but only Love.

I guess that, 'after' that, they should be something like "Completion"... and then something like "Unity"... I'm not clear with those concepts that I haven't experienced actually... I just got them from readings... so it's just information for me, not living knowledge...

It was really useful for me to create those 3 concepts (that are only concepts, there are not truth), in order to clarify my experiences of life. When I was in satisfaction, I said I was happy. When I was in happyness, I said I was happy and it was just perfection. When I'm in bliss, I'm not interesting in happyness anymore, not that I avoid it, as bliss contains everything (or would be back a dual concept), so I just put my attention when the concept I call "me" is in satisfaction, unsatisfaction, happyness or unhappyness and respect that they're a path to my bliss... I don't cling to the "postive" anymore, I want my life to be more complete and serene, more active instead of reactive. Bliss use a way to get witness of my own life, in order to put attention also to my inner events and not get identified to them.

Oh and to finish, one other very important difference between Satisfaction/Happyness and Bliss is that Satisfaction/Unsatisfaction and Happyness/Unhappyness are the consequences of my acts. Bliss is the cause of my acts! I'm not doing things to be bliss, it's because I'm in bliss that I behave that way. The world is reversed.