Stop Searching for Happiness, It Is Not a Feeling or Emotion

A man who has been searching for happiness seeking for much of his life through many different spiritual paths, wants to know if this is the last step on his journey and if he will finally feel the inner peace and lasting happiness that many other people seem to feel.

Rupert replies that happiness is not a feeling or an emotion, it is the background of all feelings. The awareness of being is the experience of happiness. You cannot take a journey to it. You can only take a journey away from it. In other words, there are no spiritual paths.

You cannot take a path from where you are to where you are. If you think you are on a path, you are on a path away from yourself. You can only search for what you are not, you cannot search for what you are. The path starts with what you are, it doesn't end with what you are.

In other words, you can not search for happiness. Happiness is your nature. Understand this clearly and with this understanding allow your search for happiness to come to an end.

If your search for happiness came to an end, you would very rarely leave the now in your imagination. You would rarely visit the past. And you would rarely visit the future unless require to do so for practical or celebratory purposes. You would find yourself at peace in the now. This is the end of seeking.

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During our weekend together, we will come to this understanding not just intellectually, but more importantly in an experiential way, so that we each have a deeply felt sense of the place in ourself where happiness is fully available in every moment.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Searching for Inner Peace
02:00 Happiness Is Not a Feeling or an Emotion
03:28 Happiness Is Your Nature
03:53 There Are No Spiritual Paths
04:27 You Cannot Search for Happiness
04:58 At Peace In The Now
05:53 Stop The Seeking

This clip has been taken from one of Rupert's Online Retreats at Home on 19–23 February 2021, The Essence of Self-Enquiry.

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