Choose Happiness!

Graphs of our choices.

Choose Happiness!

Ramana Maharshi

OutBox Introduction

The comprehensive series of recent posts containing YouTube audio recordings by the Buddhist nun Samaneri Jayasāra will be found in the Happiness section organized generally according to the traditions from which they are sourced.  I encourage everyone to explore these thoroughly.  They are especially suited to listening before sleep.

For those of you relatively unfamiliar with the expressions of higher human development contained in these excellent recordings, it may sound like someone is speaking a strange or foreign language. You may feel like it is entirely impossible to derive something of value from time spent listening to a communication you may find so much difficulty understanding. 

What can be said of such difficulty is that the content of much of these recordings from different spiritual traditions and times is about understanding the world, one’s experience, and one’s state. It may be said that the less one relates to, or sympathizes with, these attempts to express the realization of Truth, Happiness, Reality or God, the more one is actively separating oneself from these (which are One). Therefore, it may be said that it is worthwhile listening past the point of frustration to the point of inspiration. So, I hope readers will consider the words of the great realizers presented here and that this will bring peace to your Heart.

Recent Data

Included below are two charts from Our World in Data which are self-explanatory. These suggest many of us may have (inadvertently) chosen death.

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