Nirvana - Enlightenment, your happy spot
My experiences with nirvana - May 16th, 2014
I wanted to find my happy spot. I read different articles about happiness, watched you tube videos about happiness. One day I came across a video by a satsung group who were talking about a way of viewing life, this is what I got from the video. I enjoyed what the speaker had to say, I thought it would be great if I could find a satsung in my area, I went on the internet on MeetUP which is a web site for finding groups and found an enlightenment group that I could join in my area. We talked of different experiences of attainment enlightenment. This blog is about my understanding enlightenment and my acquiring enlightenment one step on a time.
While at home and thinking about the viewpoints I had heard while thinking how happiness could apply to these viewpoints, I came upon the idea of achieving Nirvana for myself.
Part of the viewpoints of enlightenment was to understand the ease of achieving enlightenment with the understanding that 1, our thinking isn't important, 2 our thoughts are changing ongoingly, 3 our feelings are changing rapidly. I decided to practice on a daily basis these 3 concepts. When I had a thought that I didn't want I used the 3 concepts. I found that just thinking of these concepts my thoughts and feelings changed. I did this more and more many times a day. One day doing this I found a feeling of happiness started welling up inside of me. I could create this happiness which I call my happy spot many times a day which gave me a feeling of contentment and self esteem. I later noticed that things stopped bothering me as they used to. People could be as they wanted to and I wasn't troubled. Things could happen in my life and I wasn't troubled. Then I saw the ability not to suffer was at my fingertips. The idea of not suffering overjoyed me, I also saw were I could attain happiness, joy, peace whenever I wanted to. I saw that when I suffered over an issue it was I who was choosing to suffer, I who was creating a story about the issue that created my suffering. I could suffer for 1 second or all day it was up to me. At this point I felt very powerful,
For me nirvana is about not suffering, not creating suffering in life.
