Man strives for happiness, we hardly need to explain what it is.
And if you still need, you involuntarily recall the words of the Russian classic that unhappiness varied, and happiness for all. Here I suggest you, to talk about global happiness in the true sense, as the overall life background, not sprayed on "happiness single" everyday, it is achieved mainly by addressing individual problems in life. Success and Happiness, though similar, but only superficially, and that's about it just go it right now.
Select three types of human state in its pursuit of happiness:
1) State of imaginary happiness coming as a result, as a rule, the abuse of anything in the broadest sense. While abuse has a certain margin of safety.
2) And as the imaginary sorrows, which occurs as a result of the withdrawal (hangover) from the first.
These first two status are inextricably linked, and that relatively they suggest such Eastern teachings, such as Buddhism and Advaita – not to sink into them and watch from the sidelines. Because their essence – illusion because, being opposites, success and discontent are inseparable.
Third is the same as the essence of Bliss. In other words, true happiness for which man is born to. Thus, it appears that Happiness is positive there at the time as "misfortune" there is a negative, is only a shadow of our ignorance blocking our ego to the light of Bliss. It is said in many spiritual traditions, including European. For example, Kabbalah, directly rejects the darkness as a positive value. Here it is necessary to notice that misfortune is indeed a real value, but only as long as we allow it to block Light from us. In this case, it really hurts.
However, once we stop fighting with suffering, we should learn consciously redirect rays of Light on the dark corners of our soul, lighting the dark corners of our life situation, the suffering is just not staying place.
Darkness is essentially ignorance, and the key to the way out of any situation is knowledge. And first of all, knowledge.
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