Re: Achieve Happiness by Creating a Life Lie
LIVE IN THE “NOW”…that is the solution, but it takes a lot of practice.
Hopes, ambition, planning, regrets etc lead to unhappiness, bitterness and inner turmoil.
We are always trying to score a goal but the goalpost keeps moving. Stop trying to score…just enjoy playing.
There is no pain in the “NOW”…in this “second” that is passing us by.
Unfortunately though, we spend our lifetime waiting for that one singular event that will forever make us happy. We keep postponing happiness as if “NOW” is not important.
Read Vedanta (Vedanta - Wikipedia). It prescribes a life of detached karma…do all you need to do in the practical world (work, family , finances etc)…but with detachment. Get obsessed with nothing. Find happiness within yourself , not from the external environment.
I also recommend this book :
THE POWER OF NOW
http://books.google.com/books?id=3njocvWewm0C&dq=THE+POWER+OF+NOW&pg=PP1&ots=SjaO74n0L-&sig=YTDnZe8EW_OGPylBAr7Q0LaiS18&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DTHE%2BPOWER%2BOF%2BNOW&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title