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Suffering is our golden net to expose the ghost of me and misery.

Peace of mind is the birthright of every human being, and it is available here and now, independent of circumstances.

Happiness through peace of mind is simply the dropping away of suffering.

With a little thinking and bravery we can demystify the mechanism of identity (cause) and suffering (effect).

My happiness is not to be found in circumstance

Happiness is available regardless of pleasure or pain.

Happiness is not depending on outcome.

Glossary

"Structure supports Spontaneity"

My sharing has nothing to do with pleasing, waiting, hoping or believing, but with our effortless feeling-knowing what IS, here and now.

I almost feel the need to apologize that I -- Holger -- have a Western/Christian background; funny to consider that the historic Jesus comes from the Middle East.

The namespace of the Bible can feel very heavy, sticky and dark -- depressing and confusing. Yet it is full of Light when we decipher the metaphors and apply them very practically here and now.

On the surface the Bible might appear as a historic book and moral code, but when we give up our old stubborn ways of "making sense" based on assumptions, we can discover our own psychological drama in the seeming "other" -- person, place ,thing, circumstance, state.

In case you feel like it: the invitation is to be attentive towards your own inner resistance while reading all of this here. Your own hunger for truth will guide you -- independent of "me" being right or wrong! Truth is an activity of your own consciousness. Please prove me wrong!

The same word in the Bible can have two potentially contradicting meanings, depending on your own perspective/identity. A great source of suffering and stagnation is the deep rooted misunderstanding that both realms are separated by physical death, whereas they both relate to YOU, here and now. Only our faulty psychological thinking (sin) has to die, to make room for Life to do its wonderful eternal thing: God is Love, it is your Father's pleasure to give you the kingdom, here and now.

Rejecting is super easy, but let's first check if we understand the same words:

Below: "this world" ... our default mode of only assuming life through the filter of our senses and "making sense" in our thinking mind. Instead to see and feel what IS, we get lost in our mental fragmentation of Life's/God's perfect creation. We are unaware and stuck in our own suffering: shame, guilt, blame, expectations, attachments, worry anxiety... all hidden and guarded behind the facade of our own person... quiet desperation (hell).

Above: "heaven, paradise" ... Our simple and natural state, here and now, unintimidated by faulty thinking (sin). "Seek ye first the kingdom and all the other things will be added unto you": Being effortlessly in sync with Life -- with our Self -- then outer affairs adjust according to our inner Peace and knowing. 

Maybe 10% of our journey -- from head to heart and back -- depends on mental understanding; 90% deals with allowing to feel old stored energies to leave the body-mind. At times it might feel like torment and despair, when we have nothing to hold onto, while we transition from the investment in person to wholeheartedly Being. 

The 10% mental understanding are fun-da-mental in severing the ties that bind us to our self-entertained ignorance.

Yes, no, maybe? We cannot be half pregnant.
Understand the mechanism of your own suffering!

Allow some quiet time -- unentertained -- and let those words sink in; instead to passively consume, make them your own discovery!

Let those words resonate in you and follow them to their source.
Being lived by Life; practically and experientially.