Now, for instance when I start thinking about what grades I would get, what kind of job I would get, can I stop from associating it with something from my past? If I can do this, a state would arise where there is no past and no future, where bonds of 'what has happened' and 'what will happen' are broken. This is a different world altogether and it exists all the time. As there is no past, I wouldn't be afraid, I wouldn't be unhappy. This, is living in the moment where you just observe and do not react.
When we said that our objective is to be happy. Is it really so? Or are we looking to put an end to unhappiness? Happiness or unhappiness binary. There is a state in between where we are neither of them and we are pretty much satisfied with this state as well. So, is it okay to say that we aren't pursuing happiness but we are pursuing to put an end to unhappiness? After all absence of unhappiness tends towards happiness, doesn't it?
I am Saurabh Deshpande pursuing Business Management at XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Comments
Vivek Kumar
MBA Graduate from IIM Shillong
Very smooth and nice read. Loved it .. Thanks for sharing.
7 Mar 2015, 08.44 PM