Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
package, a beautiful grave, all of that doesn't work. Hopefully we
realize before the last stage that happiness has to be found
somewhere else. Happiness is in reality consciousness
experiencing itself, knowing itself, loving itself. It is always
causeless. The object that allegedly brought about happiness
brought about in fact a temporary cessation of the desire. For a
short moment we experienced the desireless state, which is our true
nature. But because we have not eradicated the belief that we are a
separate consciousness, a separate individual, fear and desire soon
reappear and this moment of happiness is short lived. There is a
moment of conversion which takes place when we understand the
entire picture and we begin seeking happiness in a place which is
not an object. Our experience is comprised of only two sides, the
objective side, the phenomenal side on the one hand, and the
consciousness side, the nominal side, the subjective side, on the
other hand. If happiness is not contained within the
objective side, there is only one possibility left: it must be
contained in consciousness itself. From that moment on we are on
our journey back home and accordingly happiness begins to
permeate our lives as we go deeper and deeper on this journey
towards the center of our human experience.
TRIP: Well surely that's true, but I'm wondering if you can help
me with a lower order attachment that I have, and I think many
other people do. I think it's pretty easy to give up the idea that the
big-ticket items, like the shiny new car, and the big house, and the
trophy girlfriend are going to make you happy, that's not too hard.
And I think people are able to do that. But I have to say I love
having my modest little home, going down into my cupboard and
finding the little bag of tea there that brings me joy in the
morning, and just to drink a little glass of tea, being able to sit in a
comfortable chair quietly, peacefully in my home and know that
I'm not inundated with a lot of stuff going on around me. Little
simple pleasures do seem to bring joy, and it's difficult for me to
say that they don't. I like being able to take a shower every day
with running hot water. These things are little simple things, but
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