Welcome back to daily breath. I'm DePachauper. We're exploring the topic of freedom in our 13th secret of the self.

To understand non-locality, let's reduce it to something everyone is pursuing.

We call that happiness.

Happiness is the ultimate goal of all other goals.

Most people think, you know, if I just had that right job, I'd be happy.

If I had that right relationship, I would be happy, if I made lots of money, I would be happy,

if I had good health, I would be happy, all of those things are true.

But what if happiness is your fundamental state of being?

What if you don't have to seek happiness because you are already happy because that is your fundamental state of being.

Of course trying to be happy is intensely personal.

What makes you happy may not make another person happy or me

happy. So happiness is complex and paradoxical. When we are thinking of happiness we also start to think of all the things that can create

unhappiness. Sometimes we feel we don't deserve happiness or we feel this is too good to last a long time.

But if you understand what I'm saying about metanoia or non-local awareness

or just the presence of being right now this moment if you could

get in touch with the presence of your own being, being aware, sitting there in choiceless awareness and transcending

clinging grasping, transcending, recoiling, being afraid of, just be present to now, which is the

presence of your own being, then you will find innate joy.

If you have happiness which is based on

or dependent on something else, somebody

or some circumstance or some situation, that happiness can be taken away from

you anytime because you end up being a prisoner, you end up being a prisoner you end up being the mercy of every

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