This document discusses the concept of bliss life and reducing suffering. It states that everyone wants happiness but also experiences unhappiness, due to pursuing happiness and avoiding pain in a conflicting way. True happiness and unhappiness are both considered suffering when one is attached to expectations and desires. Suffering arises from likes, dislikes, and 12 supporting factors, and is given and received through thoughts, actions and speech. Understanding the mechanics of suffering allows one to choose to reduce suffering by studying and practicing techniques mentioned on the website blisslife.org. The overall message is that true bliss and peace come from reducing attachment to desires and expectations.
2. Today let us try to understand
the analytics ofBliss life
3. How many of you always wants to be happy?
Please raise your hand
4. Is there anyone who does not want to be happy?
Please raise your hand
5. So it is understood that
everyone of you always wants to be happy
(Exclude those who does not want to be happy if there are any)
6. Though all of you always want to be happy
is there anybody who never had unhappiness?
Those who wants to say yes – Please raise your hand
(exclude them)
7. Now it is understood that
all of you had undergone unhappiness
though you did not like it
8. How many of you gave a thought about
why? and how? You were undergoing
unhappiness though you did not like it
Please raise your hand to say yes
9. We have two categories of people, namely,
1.those who never gave a thought and
2. those who gave thought about it and
discovered causes related only to the other persons,
objects and unwanted goals
10. Is there anybody who gave a thought about
one’s own self as responsible for one’s own unhappiness?
Please raise your hand
11. What made you not think about your own
responsibility for your own unhappiness?
12. Let us now understand the analytics of our own self
13. Our self consists of
1. Five sense objects (gross)
2. Physical body with five physical lobes (golakas) for five sense organs
and Five physical lobes (golakas) for five organs of action (gross)
3. Five sense organs (subtle)
4. Five organs of action (subtle)
5. Internal organ consists of a. mind, b. intellect, c. memory and d. ego ( subtle)
6. Individual memory of likes and dislikes and process of desire (subtle)
7. Action leading to happiness or unhappiness
8. Ignorance of the underlying reality or the seer
9. Great universal memory
10.The seer in our body or the reality – the substratum
14.
15. Our unhappiness is realized
when things does not happen in our favor
and/or up to our expectation
16. Our happiness is realized
when things do happen in our favor
and/or up to our expectation
17. We never wanted unhappiness and we always try to avoid the same
While we always pursue for happiness
18. The pursuit of happiness and chasing out unhappiness
land us in a conflicting behavior
For example: in order to attain happiness we do the hardest work for long time.
That is, we always take pain to attain happiness though we innately never like pain
and always chase the pain away. This is how our life falls under conflicting behavior.
We do something hard and painful in order to achieve happiness
19. Why is this so?
Do we need to undergo this conflicting behavior in life and suffer?
Or Do we have any choice to alter it?
20. We do have a choice to get rid of suffering and
let us understand the same
23. Is happiness too suffering?
Those who think no please raise your hand
24. In our general practice of achieving happiness we understand that
we undergo conflicting behavior.
That is in order to achieve happiness we undergo pain and unhappiness.
Thus in our conflicting behavioral practice we take pain for happiness and
therefore, pain underlies the happiness.
Thus achieving happiness is also suffering
25. Then why do we always want to be happy and never be unhappy?
Why don’t we accept unhappiness in our life?
26. When we accept pain and unhappiness
in the process of achieving happiness (our goal)
then we consider pain as no pain and unhappiness as no unhappiness.
It is only when we don not accept the pain and unhappiness that comes
without expectation we deny it. Thus we do not pursue such unhappiness.
We ought to undergo both happiness and unhappiness
as long as we act with conflicting behavior.
27. Thus we need to understand that
happiness and unhappiness and pursuing the both as suffering (duhkha)
28. Now let us understand the mechanics of suffering
31. We have three instruments of actions: They are
1. Mind
2. Physical body
3. Speech
We always act through either one of the three instruments.
Some times our actions through them produce suffering
37. Supporting factors behind suffering
1. Self imaging or self evaluation
2. Imaging about others or evaluation of others
3. Comparison
4. Pretension
5. Imagination
6. Expectation
With the exemption of professional and spiritual actions
39. Liking is a memory of the knowledge of the object recognized as liking
Disliking is a memory of the knowledge of the object recognized as disliking
1. Any knowledge of the object
is recognized, either as liking or disliking,
due to partial knowledge of the object
2. Likes and dislikes are temporary and changeable
3. Complete knowledge about the object that is,
Liking side and disliking side of the same
will not give rise either liking or disliking of the object and
ultimately does not lead to desire and suffering
40. Suffering arising from likes
Lust
Anger
Greed
Passion
Arrogance
Jealousy
Self imaging or self evaluation
Imaging about others or evaluation of others
Comparison
Pretension
Imagination
Expectation
With the above individually and with their combinations
41. Suffering arising from likes
through three instruments
in the giving process
Lust
Anger
Greed
Passion
Arrogance
Jealousy
Self imaging or self evaluation
Imaging about others or evaluation of others
Comparison
Pretension
Imagination
Expectation
With the above individually and with their combinations
1. Giving suffering from likes through the physical body
2. Giving suffering from likes through the mind
3. Giving suffering from likes through the speech
42. Suffering arising from likes
through three instruments
in the receiving process
Lust
Anger
Greed
Passion
Arrogance
Jealousy
Self imaging or self evaluation
Imaging about others or evaluation of others
Comparison
Pretension
Imagination
Expectation
With the above individually and with their combinations
1. Receiving suffering from likes through the physical body
2. Receiving suffering from likes through the mind
3. Receiving suffering from likes through the speech
43. Suffering arising from dislikes
Lust
Anger
Greed
Passion
Arrogance
Jealousy
Self imaging or self evaluation
Imaging about others or evaluation of others
Comparison
Pretension
Imagination
Expectation
With the above individually and with their combinations
44. Suffering arising from dislikes
through three instruments
in the giving process
Lust
Anger
Greed
Passion
Arrogance
Jealousy
Self imaging or self evaluation
Imaging about others or evaluation of others
Comparison
Pretension
Imagination
Expectation
With the above individually and with their combinations
1. Giving suffering from likes through the physical body
2. Giving suffering from likes through the mind
3. Giving suffering from likes through the speech
45. Suffering arising from dislikes
through three instruments
in the receiving process
Lust
Anger
Greed
Passion
Arrogance
Jealousy
Self imaging or self evaluation
Imaging about others or evaluation of others
Comparison
Pretension
Imagination
Expectation
With the above individually and with their combinations
1. Receiving suffering from likes through the physical body
2. Receiving suffering from likes through the mind
3. Receiving suffering from likes through the speech
46. What to do after understanding the analytics and mechanics of suffering?
47. Do you prefer to suffer or try to get rid of suffering?
48. If you want to get rid of suffering then
Study and practice that what is published in
www.blisslife.org
49. The practice mentioned in the website, that is, www.blisslife.org
definitely reduces your suffering
