NOTICE ARCHIVE - 03/11/2024We think pleasure is happiness. What is the relationship between pleasure and happiness? Pleasure, which we pursue, is mistakenly called happiness, but can you pursue happiness as you pursue pleasure? We must be very clear as to whether pleasure is happiness. Pleasure is gratification, satisfaction, indulgence, entertainment, stimulation. As long as you can get what you want, you feel happy. But if you cannot get what you want, unhappiness begins. Concuding, you felt pleasure, not happiness. Happiness is different. It appears when you are not seeking it. When you not are making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence rise from perfect harmony, morally, intellectually and emotionally. Thought and knowledge is measurable; intelligence is not. Intelligence demands doubting, questioning and objective observation. It requires a great deal of intelligence to observe one´s own intelligence. If forcing it, or corrupting it with others opinion or with overconsumption or material abundance, the mind loses its own intrinsic organic intelligence. To act intelligently, the mind must become intelligent and not allow itself to interfere with the body and brain.
Fear twists our ideas and makes crooked the ways of our life; it creates barriers between people, and it certainly destroys love. Where there is pleasure and the pursuit of pleasure, there is the nourishing of fear. Fear of the thing I did yesterday, fear of the pain I had a week ago; thinking about it sustains the fear. There is no ending to that pain when it is over; it is finished but I carry it over by thinking about it. Thought sustains and nourishes pleasure as well as fear. There is fear of the present, of the future, fear of death, fear of not fulfilling, fear of not being loved and wanting to be loved. There are so many fears, all created by the machinery of thought. Fear is part of our self-centered, egotistic activity. One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
These conclusions are resumed from speeches and writings from Krishnamurti, an prominent Indian philosopher.
