Pleasure and Happiness

We are clutched to pleasure, whereas we should be clutched to happiness -- a sense of well-being, a sense of satisfaction, a sense of being at the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. Is this heaven or what? Is this possible?

Rumi said: "I want to sing like birds sing, not worrying about who hears, and what they think." Is this possible for human beings?

Yes, it is, but we need to let go of the pleasure thing first. We need to recognize "this" is a state of mind, not a state of our world at this time as interpreted by us.

You see, the mind struggles to find a logical decision for all the "voices" inside our head that we have collected over time ... this is a crowd ... and a crowd can't agree on anything! Even a simple thing as to what to have for lunch, or to take a day off, or where to go on a day off ... our mind is a crowd and it is never at the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing! The mind is never able to sing like birds sing, not worrying about who hears, and what they think!

How do we lose these voices, let go of pleasure, and clutch to happiness? When we achieve this state of mind ... or rather no-mind ... what happens? Check this out:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/191
- the dirty work of happiness
- confusing happiness with pleasure
- building happiness within (rather than pleasure)
- mind training
- measuring happiness in a lab