All of us want to be happy, and yet something holds us back from realizing the highest, most lasting form of happiness. Being dependent on the six senses for happiness obscures our awareness of this greater sense of joy and delight and ultimately gives rise to our deluded perception of who and what we are. Mindfulness is the path to this higher happiness.
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Many of us spend the better part of our lifetime shutting down our awareness of our own body. Yet Buddhism teaches that in order to achieve direct, moment-to-moment awareness of our experience, we need to turn our body into our object of meditation by asking, for example, “What does that emotion, thought or sensation feel like in the body?
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Identification with views and ideas is one of the main sources of our suffering. Once we begin to see the arising and passing away of perceptions and views in the mind, we get a taste of things as they truly are; then the path becomes clearer and we naturally relinquish the attachments and clinging that cause us so much suffering.
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If we knew the purpose of this precious human life and the tragedy of wasting this extraordinary opportunity to be guided by this purpose, we would not forfeit practicing the Dhamma in the pursuit of temporary pleasures, irrelevant entertainment, or unnecessary acquisitions. By following the example of genuine spiritual warriors like Aung San Suu Kyi, we can overcome our fear, anger and ignorance, and rise to the pinnacle of human potential by courageously doing ‘what needs to be done’.
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By experiencing the present moment in a direct, clear and vivid way, we are able to transcend our attachment to the world of concepts, ideas, prejudices, judgments, and the emotional states they engender.
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