{"id":46747,"date":"2022-05-14T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T10:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46747"},"modified":"2022-05-14T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T10:32:52","slug":"no-reason-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/05\/14\/no-reason-to-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"No reason to be happy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was thinking about happiness, because that happens a lot.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this realization came up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For happiness, we don\u2019t need a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For unhappiness, a reason is absolutely required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness needs nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t really depend on a situation or stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only prerequisite for happiness is being present instead of being caught up in mental agitation (or: thinking).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness is not added to our experience: it\u2019s the simple, pure nature of being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s what is, completely and deeply, before things distract us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the absence of discomfort, resistance, doubts, worry, and other mental activities that keep us occupied for so much of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s about not being identified with the content of our experience, but becoming aware of the direct, untainted sense of awareness itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness IS consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness is what we are, at our core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unhappiness is simply the disturbance of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re just tricked into believing that happiness is some sort of result, a causal effect, a thing we have to go look for and earn and fight and change for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness simply means relaxing from the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the release of the tension that our thoughts create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s a direct remembrance of what was already there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever we believe we need in order to become happy, is what covers it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happiness is the closest, most intimate thing that exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s what we experience when the mind is at rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s right behind you, around you, and in you, looking out through your eyes, regardless of what they see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s here, now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where else could it be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @miekelauren, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was thinking about happiness, because that happens a lot. And this realization came up: For happiness, we don\u2019t need a reason. For unhappiness, a reason is absolutely required. I mean\u2026 Happiness needs nothing. It doesn\u2019t really depend on a situation or stuff. The only prerequisite for happiness is being present instead of being caught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,105,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46749,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46747\/revisions\/46749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}