Waiting for Joy

There is such an intense human yearning for joy and happiness, and yet why does happiness or joy need to be elusive in the first place?

Why are you waiting for joy?

Why are you saying you WANT to be happy?

Why are you saying you WANT to dance the dance of life?

It is some kind of oxymoronic thing - - the greatest joy is the moment we live in, but we have these picture perfect images that we feel life has to live up to and when it doesn't happen we fall into depression, lethargy, deep declines - overall bad mood, sadness and hopelessness.

There is some element of choice in all this. Can we really choose to know joy NOW? Can we really choose to be happy NOW? Can we really dance the dance of life NOW?

The magic of life is in the moment, it's not in your plans and your picture perfect images of how life should be. That's just a set up for disastrous failure because joy is what happens when you experience this moment, and this moment and this moment.

When we used to practice Sat Nam Rasayan we did exercises to eliminate the brain's process of determining that some experiential feelings are of more or less value than others. In the practice we would go to a deeply meditative space where everything would be equalized - this feeling was no more important than that one, and that feeling was equally as valuable and important as the rest, and so on until every feeling mingled into an incredibly euphoric experiential feeling of yourself on the cellular level completely and totally present.

It wouldn't be practical to practice this exclusively - life calls, we must operate machinery (like cars) and participate in life, but there is a very valuable life lesson in it, none-the-less. If you take the present moment and still your mind enough to where you are no longer: complaining, comparing, judging, assuming, seeking some other moment, there in that moment you can experience joy. It's a practice that can take some time to master, but it's a great one to add to your daily repertoire. You can be on the bus and just neutralizing the judgment/comparison/complaint stream in your head until you are simply One.

Waiting for joy? What are you really waiting for? Nothing but your own willingness to accept the moment as the greatest gift and Who You Really Are as the most beautiful and precious part of this amazing moment.

Blessings.
- Darshan



© 2010 Darshan F Jessop