Happiness means to be truly ourselves; to achieve our Destiny

May 8

Meetup conducted. There were 3 persons that has personal offerings.
1. Hatha Yoga and Pranic Healer
2. Physical Wellness
3. Expression via dance.

Listening to them, I sense that they don't know who they are yet. Tot of my start up services - Self Discovery.

The Cloud of Unknowing
Why meditate?
To come to the full self-knowledge which is here called humility. And to be happy.

The work itself teaches us the true meaning of happiness and the necessity for abandoning all our false ideas about happiness. Happiness is not merely the satisfaction of our desires. It is the transcendence of all desire.
Happiness consists in realising the essential goodness of our nature and then in being good.

Goodness consists of much more than moral behaviour; it is the fulfillment of our nature. A good shoemaker, for eg, is one who makes the best shoes possible with the leather he has been provided with. So, the life of a good person, according to Aristotle, does not need pleasure as a sort of appendage but contains pleasure in itself.
The goal of life is to become fully alive, fully and truly ourselves. In doing that we discover we are made to be happy.

Soul
That's is exactly how I feel. I always believe we are meant to be happy and in order to do that we can accept whatever state we are in, be it 'good' or 'bad'. And by discovering ourself, knowing and following our Passion, we can then be happy.

Father, thank you. I was bit down recently and not doing my practice out of joy. While Sadhguru did ask me not to judge and preservere, part of me tot that is jus him wanting me to continue on his path rather than my own calling. While I preservere becos of discipline, my heart was not in it. Guess that's why u brought in The Cloud of Unknowing, a break of 8 years since I last read. Infact, I didn't read the front text cos I was not meditating back then. What I did was read the poem and cry non-stop. Most time, didn't even understand why I cry cos at time I don't even know the meanings. It has always been a mysterious book to me. Something that help me to pass through my depression, my darkest period.

I always believe we are meant to be happy. That's why I cannot accept that God wants us to suffer. That's part of the reason why I don't like religion that quotes we are here to suffer and to be grateful that we live.

When I discover it was my unconscious that was causing unhappiness, I open all doors. That's why I says that only when we are unhappy/suffering, we would take action to explore and discover to root cause and undo it; hence my blog sufferingisblessing.

Mmm, recall V asked me to change the name of blog to make it sound positive cos he cannot believe suffering is blessing. I named this blog suffering cos I tot this would be the most likely google word if I want to get help. That was 2 years back. Now perhaps I wan a change.

Below is some names I tot of:
1. Happiness is our Right
2. Meant for Happiness
3. HappyJoyJoy.
4. Bring back Joy
5. Joyfulness
6. Right to be Happy.


The Cloud of Unknowing
Christianity has often equated blessedness with suffering or a sense of sinful unworthiness.
Even today when the religion's capacity to manipulate guilt is greatly diminished, there is a strong inner resistance to accepting the freedom and availability of happiness. Perhaps we wonder, today especially, if we have the right to be happy. With our heightened and constantly stimulated awareness of the problems and tragedies of the world around us, it can seem that if we are happy, we are depriving someone elese of their happiness. The ego forgets that there is more than enough bliss to go around. Meditation frees us to share in the boundlessness of divine joy.

Happiness is fullness and although we all have different capacities, my happiness can neither diminish nor be diminished by your happiness.
And in any case, what use are we to others if we cannot share their problems and face our own with an essential happiness. We do not so much have a right to be happy, rather we have a duty to be happy. It is a duty written into our deepest nature.

Soul
Father, how can this be??? How can I be pondering about an issue and the next moment I am reading it.
Firstly You corrected my perception on sufferingisblessing. And then even give me a stronger version than my title "right to be happy"
I have always prescribe that people be happy cos we owe it to ourselves.
The duty to be happy is similar to Sadhguru's msg about it is a crime that we are not joyful.

So, definitely a call for me to change my blog name.

A tot came to me. To call my blog; Joy Ong.
2nd tot nope cos I don't want to be known.
3rd tot but u have always been described as Happy Go Lucky person. So, the name Joy is correct.

Father, there is a persistent tot for me to call the blog Joy Ong but I am afraid. I am not sure about this.
A voice came, but if u afraid to come out, how can u be the Transformational Leader in 2 years time? Joy Ong is a good branding and u can start ur own column.
Another tot, remember a new potential meditator called you by the name Joy and at first u were stunned and moments later u tot that's you, so apt name cos u now so joyful.

Mmm, Ong is such a common name in this world. Even today, met a IndianThai with surname Ong. Beside I always call myself with my given name, so don't have to change now.

The Cloud of Unknowing
Contemplation is a movement from a lay to a religious state. No one life is totally active or totally contemplative and the only specific he would take his book away from are those who are reading it only for curiousity.
At the end of the book when he discusses the signs that have drawn u to this work, he says basically that you are called if you feel a serious attraction to it.
Then he says, if you do begin, do not give up because many people do give up just at the point of making a breakthrough.

Soul
I cried and cried when I saw this. Jus half an hour ago, I says Father brought me this book to get me to stay motivated on meditation. And now the message is crystalised, carved in stone.
Somehow, I am connected and You came when U know I needed help. This book was written in 14th century and yet it called to me. And I also thanked 7thunder card for telling me in order to resolve my karmic baggage, I need to pursue a spiritual path. And this given me the course and I am in it.
This book was published in 1997. That's the year I started on the journey.

Father, I will rename my blog; Joy Ong. I will be a Transformational leader in 2 years time. I will publish my book. Like the CEO says, to plan for my future.

Amen.