Question: Many people seem to chase after happiness, but confuse happiness with contentment. I believe ‘happiness’ is more of an intense, fleeting feeling, whereas contentment is in itself calmer, but longer lasting, what do you think? Answer: I admit that I used to use the two expressions in an interchangeable manner, but after reading your … More Unearthing True Happiness
Question: If you could choose your first emotion coming into this world, what would it be? Answer: Even before “coming into this world” I would like to consciously sense the utter perfection which is the state of being in the mother’s womb. I would like to consciously feel, taste that perfect, selfless, unconditional “motherly love”, … More To Give Perfect Love
Question: A simple life is a happy life. Do you agree? Answer: I would say yes with an important condition. Yes we can live a happy, simple life, spending energy and resources only at fulfilling our basic, comfortable, modern, natural necessities…as long as we spend all the rest of our energy and effort on building … More A Simple, Happy Life…
Question: Why is happiness so elusive in life? Answer: Happiness is elusive because it is not something that comes by itself, we can’t become happy instinctively. Thus when we try reaching happiness through the usual actions, intentions that come to us naturally – instinctively trying to make ourselves happy at all cost – happiness escapes … More Elusive Happiness
Question: If we want to live a good life, what principles/knowledge should we know, or you suggest that we should know? Answer: In order to live a “good life” the most important principle we need to know is that – contrary to what our proudly individualistic nature tells us – we are not individual, isolated … More Living A Good Life
Question: Among the people you have known, who has led a life well lived? What made it so special? Answer: There are stories even books written about terminally ill people, who – after they let go of their inherent self-concern, fear of death, solemnly accepting their “death sentence” from their illnesses – started unconditionally caring … More Special Life Well Lived
Question: Why do we do things that we do not want to do? Answer: While I agree with you that superficially it seems that sometimes we do things we do not want to do, when we examine the question deeper, there is no such possibility. We are driven by a desire for pleasures, for self-fulfillment. … More The Manipulative Desire
Question: Would you rather live a long life of playing it safe or live a short life of happiness and doing whatever you want? Answer: While it is a nice philosophical question, it is not realistic. We underestimate our nature, the engine that drives us. Our insatiable egoistic being, a “black hole-like” desire for pleasures … More No Deal
Question: Why we are never truly satisfied? Answer: Our inherent “matter” is an insatiable, exponentially growing desire for pleasures. Today the larger part of Humanity lives in societies where we have more abundance available than kings used to have a few generations ago. Still we are becoming increasingly emptier, depressed, we turn to all kinds … More I Can Get No Satisfaction…But Together We Can
Entering The Force-Field 