People often ask me why I am always so happy.
It’s not really a secret. In fact, it’s obvious, but most people don’t know it.
I’ve included a short poem that may explain it and a recent interview I did on Gareth’s wonderful Endless Possibilities podcast where you may be able to feel the transmission of this peace, love, and bliss that always seems to be here.
Do you want to know why I am always so happy?
Standing with bare feet deeply embedded in the cool, wet earth,
I feel the morning sun on my back.
I can hear the ravens chattering and the mourning dove’s coo.
I see the blue of the morning sky and the red of the last remaining leaf.
But even this is not enough for this unchanging bliss.
Slowly, like an ice cube melting in the heat of the sun,
All names and forms disappear.
There is no earth, bare feet, or body.
There is no sun.
There are no ravens or mourning doves.
There is no sky, or leaf, or colors.
These are but temporary illusions,
Figments of the mind.
And they fade like the morning mist in the heat of the rising sun.
What remains is what is always here.
We don’t notice this when the mind is filled with thoughts.
The mind creates separation where it has never existed,
Nor ever could.
The mind creates a dream and someone to experience it.
But this has never been.
This that is always here cannot be imagined by the mind.
It is realized only when the mind is free of all thought,
When the dream and the dream experiencer disappear,
Like awakening from a sleeping dream.
And that is bliss.
And that is why I am always so happy.
Now you know.
