HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS
Man is a natural, biological being. He is and that evidence is something that in our century cannot be debated. It is simply a fact. Man is an animal but a rational animal. This is the unique power inherent in Man. He can think and integrate the material of the senses. He can acquire knowledge of the world, a true grasp of the world through concepts and ideas. These concepts are real and natural.
Can you deny, really deny that the table that you see and the word, "table" are disconnected. It is a fact that modern philosophers deny that. Hence you will see a peculiar stupidity, triviality in Philosophical writings of Hume, Kant, Marx, Russell, Wittgenstein etc.
God help you if you, in all innocence, reach for those books to gain wisdom. You will encounter a bewildering way of argumentation, and you will ironically also see each philosopher blasting the other, but himself talking really rubbish.
Yes, you can be fooled for a while. You might think, no, there is something here...you may struggle to understand, and one day it will come to you like a blinding flash-THESE PEOPLE ARE TALKING NONSENSE, AND YOU WILL ALSO GRASP THAT MAN STILL DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS.
Man is man, dear reader, he is exactly that which you have felt, as you, experienced you as you. He is a man who can control his life. He is a man who can think by choice. And he does have an emotional capacity that responds to the conclusions he reaches. Each emotion is based on some conclusion that Man arrives at. So if he has to have a serene life, he has to come to the right conclusions.
All this is really rooted in having no fundamental doubt with respect to the world and life.
The world as we know, really exists, we do have a life, a mechanism, mind and body, integrate, that we use , to function. The mind -body integrate is really the "I"
Man is thus an individual, he has to be, in mind and body. Nobody else can eat/think /breathe for you.
These are almost common sense facts that, in the 21st century, thanks to the development of science and rational thinking, all of us know.
The trick is to know all this as AN ABSOLUTE.
THERE IS THAT DIVIDE. UNCERTAINTY IS WHAT WE LIKE, SOME LOOP HOLE THAT WOULD ALLOW US NOT TO THINK. BUT DEAR reader, not to think is obviously not good for you, even if that escape feels good for the moment.
Thinking has to be an absolute principle and it would give you everything. But most people precisely do not know this. They think that some other force is at work. They live in a dark, sub world. They have to thus, cling to age old beliefs that, if analyzed, mean nothing. But analysis is precisely what people at large don't do. They do not do because they simply do not know that they can/should and that it would give them what they deeply desire.
Most people want, joy, self esteem, success, friends who are true and loving, and love.
But what people do not know is that the natural way to get this is to think, and plan, and learn and act.
The death knell for most people is that in their unthinking ways, they give in to whatever they are feeling. They are driven by beliefs that all believe simply because all believe. Theirs is a belief in beliefs.
That is why they cannot be loving, and thus free.
They always are desiring others to appreciate and never believe the appreciation that they truly get too.
The approach is simply mistaken.
Think of a person's life, a normal life, as it is called and how insane it really is.
He learns nothing in school, but displays his grades superiority.
He loves to love, in that he loves to acquire friends but not based on value but based on prestige.
His work is not passionate. he works to get name , position and money all of that to show others. And thinks he is being selfish, inside!! He is being nothing inside, only a being, a sounding board to call on others to love him.
What would remain in such a life?
Is it not the ultimate pitiable, life?
Because he is pursuing values that are not based on any consideration of what theya re and why, so how can he get anything...what will he get at the end?
You see incredibly the whole world following this principle.
No, if you cheat life, life will cheat you. A valueless life will end up valueless. It is as simple and as deadly as that.
Start from your own context, ask the simplest questions, go for answers honestly, have a philosophy of life, after consideration of all facts. Reach for certainty like in any task. And then define what you want and stop not till you get the things you wanted, and you will, in all likelihood. There is no real luck.
In all this the tool, is that which you were born with- your thinking capacity, your reason.
