Sit in an easy position or lie down if possible. Go through your whole body starting from your forehead. Check all the tension spots and areas with pain or discomfort. As you become more aware of unpleasant feelings or sensations in your body, gently relax the muscles surrounding those areas and the tension or pain will slowly fade away. Go over every part of your body without exception. Even inside of your body. Do it very slowly and patiently, down to your fingers and toes, front and back. Do it once and then over again.

All beings are always already Happy. You always know, at this very moment you know exactly, what it would be to look and feel and be and act completely Happy. Yet your attention is wandering from that Happiness, wandering into the self-contraction, into the not-self or the objects of self-contraction, the dilemma, the problem, the troubles, the fear, sorrow, anger, mortal pursuits, obsessions, desires, consolations of mind, emotion, body. That is why you are un-Happy. Clearly, Happiness is not to be attained by meditating on un-Happiness (or the self-contraction), but just as clearly it is not to be attained by trying to protect yourself from feeling un-Happiness.

Happiness is presently the case. In this moment you are already Happy. Feel where it is that you are now Happy. Look for it in your toes, in your fingers, in your shirt, in your head. Look for it in the chakras, your stomach, your desires, your wife, your husband, your relations, your pain, your pleasure. Find it. You are Happy. Where are you being Happy? Where is the actual feeling of Happiness? Simply locate it and meditate on it, feel it. Observe the mechanism of your un-Happiness, so that you will not then go and try to become Happy, but will rather, having understood un-Happiness, become capable of locating Happiness. Find "where" you are Happy - completely Happy, already, now, Contemplate and feel into that Happiness. ~ The Bodily Location of Happiness by Da Free John

 

 

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