You're Not Happy Because You're Looking for Happiness in the Wrong Place

Why aren't I happy? Why am I unhappy despite being in pursuit of happiness? It's not hard to be happy once you understand what you truly are and see that everytime you look for happiness outside of yourself, in an object, you are looking away from the happiness you seek.
0:00 Why does getting a better understanding of Reality lead to happiness?
5:36 The inquiry has to be open...
...and it has to have its roots in not-knowing.
9:04 Two types of goals
10:34 The connection between seeking the truth about what we are and happiness
*** (transcribed excerpt below)
16:50 Red Ferraris and seven carat diamonds
"Happiness happens the moment the desire for the object comes to an end"
24:40 Nature of consciousness as impermanent or permanent
29:59 'Perceptions' is a man made concept
31:50 Attribute versus modification
"Awareness is an attribute of reality, not an accident of reality."
38:41 What is meant by the fear of disappearance?
52:49 The seeming sense of I in the body.
Awareness is not located in the body, in space and time.
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***"So having eliminated this objection that this approach was limited, I go back and try to demonstrate how, what kind of connection there is between happiness and seeking the truth about what we are. In other words, seeking the truth about who is it who is happy or not happy.
And, if we as consciousness are, as most people believe to be the case, if we are a limited consciousness, in other words, in that which is our essential being, awareness, is limited and mortal, there is going to be in our life, a sense of impending doom, a sense of urgency that is going to deprive us from enjoying happiness in a continuous fashion. Because our life is going to hinge around a constant worrying about the survival of this body, which is by essence, mortal, impermanent. So a futile attempt to make permanent that which is impermanent.
...and as a result we will live our life with a sense of imminent danger constantly present, in the background. Also, with frustration, having this intense feeling that we are not living our life the way we could. That we are not enjoying all the possibilities. That we are not developing the potential of this human body-mind organism to its fullest. Another way to put it is whatever action we take we have regrets about it. We have a total uncertainty what to do next. Because we lack clarity, and we go for the next pleasure knowing full well that there is going to be a price to pay down the road for this, or we will deprive ourselves from the next pleasure, hoping that we will be rewarded down the road for our sacrifice. But both options are not conducive to happiness. The removal, if possible, of the sense of impending doom, leads to the elimination of the fundamental worry in the background, and opens the gate for happiness or inner peace. So that I hope I have made the case, you see for that."
(From Temecula dialogue with Francis Lucille 2021 09 05)
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[@keithmajor4231]

I wish à complete transcript of this whole dialogue was available as a book so i could keep reading and studying it.

[@peonyer3351]

Dear Francis i am enjoying your teaching everyday & night especially this episode I wish to send you "Ten Thousand Likes" Thank You My Dear Teacher!!!

[@inesbudihaci5819]

What a delightful experience Francis enables us to experience. Not streching to create some other beliefs in the mind just to be open in the not knowing! Thank you Francis,the Beloved shines in every word you speak!❤

[@donnacoombs8129]

Absolutely brilliant! Deepest gratitude and love 🙏

[@wattaura7621]

"Remain in this not knowing" 💓

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

Very interesting. “Science has excluded awareness from its scope” However without awareness science would not be possible. Francis also says: “You can’t have love without beauty and beauty without love and any of them without awareness” Great Insight!

[@rodrigomiranda1950]

Beautiful teachings ❤️🔥 thanks for sharing. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷❤️

[@highvibefreqzshow5967]

If you are chasing happiness, there is the lack of recognition that you are not the ego, and it is the ego that chasing a thought called happiness it will never find as it is only a thought as is the you that is chasing after it.

[@karnpooni4281]

This was amazing! Thank you francis and those who help put these videos online!! 1 million thanks!!

[@VirendraSingh-iu2nc]

Gratitude🌹👌.

[@Anastasiiia_an]

Thank you for sharing these beautiful truth 'bombs' :)

[@relativeparadox9567]

Truth balms.

[@helenenivoix3700]

Formidable !

[@shahirahabib2947]

I never get enough of hearing Francis explaining the truth ❤ and I feel elated every time🙏🏼my infinite thank you Francis 🙂you are changing the world💫

[@taraclover4783]

Thanks Francis💗💗💗

[@hgracern]

Brilliant thank you. 💕

[@kittyhinkle3739]

Remain in this not knowing🙏❤️

[@brettneuberger6466]

Ahah! I’m pretty certain I understand uncertainty now. 🙏

[@robertwajdaii5370]

who knows?

[@innerlight617]

38.17 "we live in a culture which has ignorance of awareness at its very foundation" So true for western culture..

[@ViolaRenate_TV]

#Gratitude Dear Francis

[@tattvavidya]

There is no evidence that awareness is dependent on the body ....thank you.

[@TheNativoamericano]

For the question about if there is a "general consciousness" of the different senses consciousnesses - ear, taste, touch, smell, eye, thought, I could get a clearer idea when the Abiddhama explanation of how the mind functions, appeared on my KZbin list.... check it out if you want to have a better understanding. 🥰

[@AIXITstageleft]

I have questions. Huge questions.

[@at-last]

2:30 6:10 9:00 * 10:00 * 13:30 * 15:30 * 18:30 cf 20:00 cf 21:00 22:00 23:00 24:00

[@Tigerspencerstrawberry]

💜✨

[@socrates8495]

Consciousnes can't always be aware because in deep sleep awareness is not there

[@MagdiNonDuality]

The desire for happiness is an impersonal desire

[@kennhiser]

Selfish in fact

[@ajsalonius8455]

Over my head

[@at-last]

22:00

[@Tigerspencerstrawberry]

Happy 4:44💖 Hope you're doing alright. Would love to hear from you.

[@cobba6392]

Can anyone place the questioner’s accent? I can’t …?

[@kennhiser]

Happiness is conditional. True experience is not.

[@at-last]

26:45 27:20

[@Tigerspencerstrawberry]

🙋‍♀️⚘Thinking of you.

[@leelanjoy]

very quiet

[@locksand45]

No, it is in the driving of the red Ferrari.

[@susithk]

Some scientists claim consciousness is an emergent property of the collective activity of the brain/ neurones

[@lesbrosanthony3813]

Science is essentially trying to pierce through what's impossible to understand empirically. Some day, this thing is true through science. The other one, it keeps progressing and sees that it didn't that much earlier. ^^

[@ptanji]

Yes. And this claim has yet to be proven. But, yet, it is still the most worthy of all pursuits, IMHO.

[@MagdiNonDuality]

1) How can that which is non phenomenal (unlimited) arise out that which is phenomenal (Limited)? Shouldn't it be the other way around? 2) If consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, then what is the emergent property of the brain?

[@michaelmcclure3383]

What they mean by consciousness is usually limited to the intellect, or the individual bodymind. In that sense it is an emergent property of Maya, apparently evolving and changing along with everything else... But Consciousness is already present, not limited to the bodymind and therefore not in itself emergent.

[@MagdiNonDuality]

@@MegaUpstairs matter is observable and therefore limited. It’s substance, consciousness is not limited. For example, a wave has a particular form and shape. But the substance of the wave, namely water, is beyond form and shape. Keep in mind that the use of language and concepts serves a purpose which is beyond the concepts and beyond language.

[@ThomiX0.0]

Thank you Francis! Can Truth be seen, by the tool which isn't true by itself? Can it search for the Unconditional Truth, which it cannot be itself? If I search for a key, I must have the perception how it looks like, otherwise I cannot find it. Does our thinking, have the image of Unconditional Truth, because in that case it is still an image and not the real. Only our Consciousness has energy to seek, and is able to recognize this endless Unconditioned Truth, as it is the Home of it. ,..once left by workings of the brain. (the thoughts, the reasoning, and knowledge accumulated over time.) Thats why, we cannot say: I have experienced the Truth. it is just a perception, and never the real. When it happens, it is already stored on the 'right' shelf, in your memory database. ( no thinking can handle that, because it happened Now.) I hope it happens to all of us..we need it.

[@robertkoekoek9630]

X has true nature Y, is dualistic. X seeking Y, is two, is dualistic. X understanding Y is dualistic. X is true about Y, is dualistic. Truth is not X qualified by Y. Truth is not X-related-to-Y. Truth is not fragmented. Truth is more primitive. Truth doesn't need. Truth is absolute. Truth is one. Universal awareness itself fears disappearance, needing 'more' of itself.

[@nathansrebernik1240]

Universal awareness is not an object that has fears. That so called awareness that you mention is only a personal representation a concept of awareness and is in itself an appearence and thus not awareness! That which contemplates the fear is You awareness and that one that which you truly are is beyond appearence or disappearence beyond any atate timeless and infinite.

[@jamesvanderhoorn1117]

Happiness is a warm gun.

[@DanielColageo]

I like that.

[@calculusmetal]

Does Francis express and embody the Happiness he speaks of? It doesnt appear so, in terms of body language. I assumed his happiness, joy, peace and tranquility would be visually obvious. Any comments?