The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

Let’s look at happiness from another perspective, that of the spirit. The spirit has been named many aliases. Some will call it God. Some will name it the Universe. My preferred term is The All There Is. I break that down in the word “Tathis.”

Whatever moniker is given it, Tathis is the spirit underlying the entire existence of everything. We can speak of it in these kinds of terms because it appears to be conscious. Indeed, it appears to be Consciousness itself.

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It is when you find yourself in this Consciousness, find yourself present in the Consciousness, that you are happy. This is not happiness as is often defined as worldly substances and events. This is not the joy of achievement or the triumph of having reached your goal. These are worthy steps along the path of your life, to be sure. I do not minimize them in any way.

But they are not the happiness of which I speak today. They are important but temporary and will pass away. Their time comes and their time ceases to be. The happiness of which I speak is timeless and never dies. So long as the Universe exists, the Spirit exists, this happiness will persist and thrive.

The basis of this happiness is total acceptance. The Spirit accepts you as you are right this minute. There are no conditions on that acceptance. There are no hoops to jump through now or ever. What you are, who you are in this moment is accepted. Period.

This is the eternal basis for your happiness. You cannot earn it. You need not earn it. It is a given. The Spirit that pervades and holds in consciousness the Universe all around you and in you, accepts you.

Beyond accepting you, Tathis also promotes you. The Universe advocates for you. Like someone putting in a good word for you as you go to apply for a new job. Or a friend recommending a friend. So does the Spirit seek the best it can for you. It actually sets events, things and people in your path that you come across them and use them to your benefit.

So, being present in the Spirit is happiness. How does one become present in the Spirit?

There is no other way than to develop and maintain a relationship with the Consciousness that holds the Universe. Do not let this thought daunt you, however. Developing this kind of relationship is very simple. It does take discipline and time, but that is all. You can grow this relationship without spending any money nor making any vows.

You do not need to sacrifice anything. You do not put yourself in frightening or dangerous situations. You do not adhere to a particular guru to the exclusion of all others. In other words, you do not become an intellectual slave of anyone.

Through some form of meditation or mindfulness or awareness you place yourself in the presence of the Spirit. I am deliberately being ambiguous here. You choose what form of adherence you will use to place yourself in the Presence. That form may change or evolve over time, as well.

As you get closer and closer to the Spirit, find yourself dwelling more and more fully in its Presence, your happiness will blossom and remain vigorous. Remember happiness here is defined as perfect acceptance of you by the Spirit. The acceptance is a given. All you need do is find it for yourself. Get to it.

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We must never neglect our exterior lives. You have found your way to lasting happiness by making and keeping significant connection to The All there Is. In that connection you have found total and unconditional acceptance of you just the way you are in this moment. That is true interior happiness.

But, of course, you want your happiness to carry out into your daily, worldly life. Otherwise what good is it. Your interior bliss needs to be expressed and manifested in the corporal world or it would seem useless. If you seem useless then you have not achieved or accomplish real interior or existential happiness.

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When you have found existential happiness, or you know you are on your way to same, then you beam your bliss into the world and reinforce your interior feelings with exterior action.

One the very best ways to reinforce your happiness is to make a contribution to your world. Please don’t turn me off here. I am not necessarily asking for money here. There are as many ways to make a contribution as there are people.

Here are some: Smile at someone for no reason. Even a brief small smile can change the other person’s day and, therefore, life. You never know.

Donate your time and energy to an animal shelter or a homeless human shelter.

Tutor a child.

Make a micro-loan through one of the many micro-loan outlets.

Write and maintain a blog about what you think is important in this world.

Read to a child – something the child finds interesting.

Offer a cup of cold water at a hydration station during a 15k run.

Teach.

Learn.

Guide.

Discover a vaccine.

Build a better solar energy array.

Green the planet – again.

Give someone who really needs it some cash – anonymously.

Act randomly kind.

You get the picture, I am sure. Big or small or somewhere in between make a contribution to your world and the people and animals in it. You will feel useful and happy.

You will be reinforcing your own interior happiness. But let’s be clear. You do these things out of the bliss you are feeling or developing inside. You do not do these things to make yourself happy. Yes, they can and ought to be used to bolster the bliss you feel inside.

They are never substitutes for those indigenous feelings of total and complete acceptance from The All There Is. They need never be same. But because your visceral feelings need expression, that is the reason you make contributions in the world. Build your exterior happiness. Get to it.

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“Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, ‘What is a dance?’ how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.” Osho

Life must be experienced. You must dance your life away. You can think all you want. Indeed, I encourage you to think. But life is not in the thinking; it is in the doing. It is in the being.

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You can meditate to grow your own spirit and your own life. I encourage you to meditate and grow. Even achieve peace of mind and peace of spirit in meditation. Even detach yourself from all of life so that nothing can disturb you and your peace.

I applaud your efforts toward meditation and peace of mind. But peace of mind is played out in real life which means interaction with your environment. One benefit of meditation can be real and genuine happiness as well. Again, however, happiness is put to use in the substantive world.

In this regard, let’s talk about God, or the Source of All There Is, for just a moment. Some look at God as a totally spiritual entity. That is, God for them, and for me, is Consciousness. There is nothing more, nor is there anything less, than Consciousness in this Universe.

Consciousness is just “fine” as it is. But Consciousness by itself cannot experience; it cannot “be” in the usual sense of that word “be.” One might say that Consciousness is undividedly in its head. Thus it cannot “be” as we think of “being.”

So even Consciousness must learn to dance and then dance often. Consciousness has chosen to dance through you and me. We are the action-agents of the Source of All There Is.

Taking all I have said thus far in this writing, you can see, I hope, that in order to truly be in this world you must get out of your head and on to the dance floor. (Of course, I don’t mean you literally have to find a dance venue and break your moves there. I, for one, would be totally embarrassed by my lack of competent move-breaking.)

I do mean you need to participate in life. You may find it difficult to describe happiness, for example. But you can easily demonstrate your happiness by the way you treat other people, the environment, animals and events. You can even demonstrate your happiness by how you react to events in your world whether large, small, tragic, happy or somewhere in between.

You need to dance. You need to dance to make real what you feel in your consciousness. God as Consciousness, the Source of All There Is, needed to find an outlet for Its energy of consciousness. (It is said and shown that all the Universe is energy – vibrations of astronomical numbers of different frequencies.) So humans came into being as one way Consciousness could express Itself.

In other words, Consciousness, the Source of All There Is, learned to dance in what we see as the corporeal world. Yes, some will want to say to me that this world is an illusion. In a way, of course, that is true. But it is the floor we have at the present moment upon which to dance.

This Universe is real and solid to us right now. So, enjoy yourself and your happiness by dancing your life away. Life is to be experienced. Indeed, I believe we experience life on behalf of the Consciousness of the Universe. Dance.

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