​Inner Awareness is all about us. Developing Inner Awareness is a process where we begin to watch ourselves in every relationship, conversation, situation that we encounter daily. The most important person in inner awareness is our self. But our mind focuses on everyone and everything outside of us but ignores our self.
 
Meditation is a tool and practice with the aim to help us watch our scattered mind that is filled with images, old patterns, and old behaviors. We must observe the inner chatter of our ego mind, so we can understand how much we are moving away from the truth, how our one consciousness is divided and separated.
 
One of the main goals of the Happyness center is to develop the practice of inner awareness and apply the process of deeper observation of the ego self. This process is a significant milestone in deepening our self-knowing.
 
When we are aware of our conditioning we will understand the whole of consciousness, and not just one part of our consciousness. We learn that we have divided our consciousness and live in fragments, where we are familiar with one little corner of our consciousness and the rest of it is unknown to us.
 
Awareness is the total attention of our consciousness without division. Meditation will help us to watch this happening inside our mind. Observation, Awareness, and Attention are the three important pillars of mindful practice. Research has shown that observation and awareness can help unite our fragmented consciousness.
 
Come to learn more about our deceptive ego-self and fragmented consciousness. Join our Happyness Community at our Monthly Meditation, Sunday October 24th, 11.00 AM.
Let’s explore together and discuss about deepening our inner awareness and observation.  
 
We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. We will share, learn, and practice together. Group meditations has many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others.
 

This month we are focussing on Body sensing and Breath Awareness. 

​When we pay attention to our physical body and feel the body's sensations for few minutes every day, we might feel a sense of relaxation that will allow us to see our life more clearly as to what is truly going on inside us. Cultivating the practice of looking into our consciousness has not only become essential but also a of necessity for our survival.
Breath sensing helps to regulate our thoughts and feelings. Breath awareness is one of the most powerful healing resources we have with us. Allowing body sensing and breath awareness will let the brain adapt to new patterns, habits, and behaviour. Deep, slow, and rhythmic breathing can help reduce anxiety, fear, and depression.
Research studies have shown that deep breathing can activate our immune system, hormones like serotonin and oxytocin, and parasympathetic nervous systems. Scientific studies shows also that awareness of our external body will open some hidden aspects of ourselves that we did not know to exist.
Simple body and breath sensations have a powerful impact on releasing our stress levels and relax our body and mind. It involves mental scanning the body, paying attention, and experiencing each part of our physical body. This scanning will allow us to examine and explore to see what is troubling in our inner world. This meditation can help increase your inner awareness and improve the quality of your life. Every tool shared by our dedicated practitioners inspires you to look inside rather than seek solutions outside. That is where you find real solutions to life problems.
At the Happyness center, our main aim is to help you develop mindfulness and deeper awareness of your inner self. We learn to see ourselves in silent observation and enquiry rather than act from the noisy activity outside.
Join us at the Happyness Center for our Monthly Meditation on Sunday, September 26th, at 11 AM, as we explore and discuss how we can achieve inner awareness through body and breath sensing.
We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. Group meditations have many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others. We will share, learn, and practice together.
Limited physical space is available. Pre-Register on the website.

Our general assumption is that human life spans for seventy, eighty, ninety, or to some even hundred years.
Does life begin only when we take our first breath and ends when we breath out the last?
Is it that life starts only where we know it and ends where it seems we know it ends?
 
Let us imagine standing on the bank of a river. From where we stand and see the water flowing, we don’t really know the source of where water is flowing from, and we are also unknown about where the water is rushing on towards the destination beyond. Our knowledge about the river is confined to what we see before our eyes.
Similarly, when we are unaware of the source where the flow of life comes, nor the destination where it rushes to is unknown, it is natural for us to assume that life starts when we are born and ends when we die and leave the body.
 
Can we say that the entire water of the river is only what we see within the reach of our sight?
 
Because we merely do not know the source, as well as its destination, it cannot disprove that the water comes from somewhere and proceeds to some other place. Likewise, our life is not just the outcome of merely a woman and a man coming together. It cannot be just a lucky accident.
 
What does it mean when we say Beyond Self-Awareness?
We must purge the past, every moment live the present with self-awareness and prepare ourselves beyond self-awareness into the future. In other words, we must allow the past to open and let it flow in the present. We must clearly see our true self with self-awareness in the present. And we must we live our present with the vision of preparing our future beyond self-awareness.
 
At the Happyness center our main aim is to help you develop mindfulness and deeper awareness of your inner self. We learn to see ourselves in silent observation and enquiry rather than act from the noisy activity outside.
 
Come join us at the Happyness Center for our Monthly Meditation, Sunday August 29th , as we explore and discuss about building inner awareness and attention through observation.
 
We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. We will share, learn, and practice together. Group meditations has many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others.

A disciple asked a question to his teacher: Why can’t we always be happy in the world?
 
The teacher replied: The goal in our life is to be in a permanent state of bliss. But instead of being happy, we give importance to gathering things that bring us pleasure. We made it our life’s purpose and somehow believe that to be happy we must always achieve and accumulate things. We don’t realize that everything in this world is an illusion and temporary. We think that when we collect things, they’ll bring us happyness, without realizing that they are not going to be there permanently.
 
A person who even after knowing the truth cannot give up the greed, such a person will live in the fear of losing them. People who don’t realize the truth, live with ego. The teacher said, wherever there is fear and ego, how can there be Happyness?
 
What is the cause of fear of losing something?
The root cause of fear is desire. When we have the desire to have something then we have the fear of losing it too. If we have the desire to live, then we have the fear of dying. In our competitive culture, with its desire for power, position, status, recognition, and success, do we observe what is taking place within ourselves and outside ourselves?
 
Everyone is caught in this fear, whether it is humans or divine beings. No one is free of desires. Some of us suffer because we have very little or nothing. And others who have everything suffer because there is nothing more to achieve or obtain. We perceive Happyness from our perspective, whereas the truth is completely opposite. Despite all our proud material achievements, we live in a field where there is frequent conflict in our relationships, we’re breeding hatred, resentment, brutality and endless wars.
 
How do we come out of our fears? Is it possible to be free of desires?
What can we do to stop our search for Happyness and live in Happyness?
 
At the Happyness center our main aim is to help you develop mindfulness and deeper awareness of your inner self. We learn to see and understand ourselves in silent observation and enquiry rather than act from the external noisy activity.
 
Come join us at the Happyness Center for our Monthly Meditation, Sunday June 27th, 2021 as we explore and discuss about building inner awareness and attention through observation.
 
We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. We will share, learn, and practice together. Group meditations has many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others.

June 2021

Are you surprised to know that we live simultaneously in two parallel worlds?
 
One is the outer world that relates to external comforts where the brain and mind began to make things technologically better. The other is the inner world that deals with subtle things like thought and feeling where we are struggling to make it better.
 
Mankind has always tried to become something better. Exploiting that principle on the outside, over time becoming something has given mankind a sense of achievement, comforts, and made the world a better place to live. Using the same principle of becoming something, mankind wanted to be better himself inwardly too. He has miserably failed and caused misery and suffering.
 
Does transformation come about by becoming something that we are not? Is transformation a matter of time?
Most of us are accustomed to think that time is necessary for transformation: I am something now, and to change what I am into what I should be requires time.
There are two kinds of time: chronological time and psychological time. We cannot reject chronological time. But is there time as the mind thinks of it? Is there time apart from the mind?
Psychological time is the product of the mind. The foundation of the psychological time is thought. It is just a memory of our past experiences in response to our present that is creating our future. By introducing time, we are postponing or avoiding to see “what is.” To see “What is” it is essential that we have a quiet mind.
 
How can we possibly live in both these opposing worlds simultaneously?
Can we explore the possibility of balancing the two worlds and learn to live in a timeless awareness and still function in a time-bound manner?
 
At the Happyness center our main aim is to help you develop mindfulness and deeper awareness of your inner self. We learn to see ourselves in silent observation and enquiry rather than act from the noisy activity outside.
 
Come join us at the Happyness Center for our Monthly Meditation, Sunday June 28th , as we explore and discuss about building inner awareness and attention through observation.
 
We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. We will share, learn, and practice together. Group meditations has many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others.

In Samkhya Philosophy, it is told that the human Consciousness has a lower form and a higher form.
        The Higher form or state of Consciousness is part of us from eternity. It is the presence and is the incorruptible un-decaying body, the spiritual body. This body dwells in super-celestial world in complete freedom.
 
But when we are not aware of this pure form, then we are functioning naturally from the lower form; Yoga calls this Chitta, a field of consciousness, where the mind functions psychologically as the (1) feeling nature (Manas), (2) Intellect (Buddhi), and (3) Egoism (Ahamkara). This lower form always has dual nature of pleasure and pain. The highest form of consciousness or presence is above all pleasure and pain.
 
What is the nature of the lower form of Consciousness?
 
Yoga sutra or principle says that the lower form of consciousness has five qualities.

1. True Perception: A true consciousness of some objective reality – something that is outside the person and their mental modifications. True perception happens through perception or sense-cognition, Inference, and verbal cognition.
2. False perception: An incorrect consciousness of outward reality. The perception that has a form, which shines out as if it were real knowledge. Ignorance, Egoism, Attachment, and Aversion are affliction caused by false perception. 
3. Hallucination: Even in the absence of reality, the action of the individual is found to be dependent on the power of verbal expression and-knowledge.
4. Sleep: A non-perception of anything external.  Sleep is the mental modification which has its objective bedrock on the cause of non-existence. When there is lack of awakening, mind is restless, wanders, and is unsteady. 
5. Memory: The reviving of our old perceptions. When we function from our past impressions either in dream or when awake is memory. They are born either from true perception, False perception, Hallucination, or Sleep. 

Mind is like a magnet. It energizes when it nears something. When this mind sees its Master, the presence, it possesses the qualities of the presence. Knowing these modifications of the mind it is necessary to build the eternal relationship with the presence.  
 
At the Happyness center our main aim is to help you develop mindfulness and deeper awareness of your inner self. We learn to see ourselves in silent observation and enquiry rather than act from the noisy activity outside.

Are we ready to bring the presence back into our lives?
 
Come join us at the Happyness Center for our Monthly Meditation, Sunday May 30th, as we explore and discuss about establishing intimate and personal relationship with the presence.
 
We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. We will share, learn, and practice together. Group meditations has many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others. ​

The majority of people are eagerly awaiting when we can get back to normal. We are exhausted living in the Covid restrictions far too long. We can sense the fatigue of people’s social distancing, wearing masks, and sanitizing.
 
Do we want to go back to doing the same things as before? Don’t we see the need to define a new version of ourselves?
 
Have we ever thought if the universe is sending us a message to slow down? Are the external restrictions really to help our senses relax and calm down? Maybe we are walking into the path of destruction by living the so-called ‘normal’ routine. Have we at least given the prospect to contemplate on our present condition? Or Do we choose to be robotic and be persistent about getting back to normal?
 
Change is hard, but we also know that change is constant and an excellent opportunity to bring our creativity to a new way of thinking. As much as we are engaged in finding a solution to the deadly widespread virus, which is a significant task, is it not equally important to see the bigger picture of what this means to us as a human race and nature?
 
Why are we so threatened every time we face a new change in life and in nature?
Why is it so difficult for us to adapt to life changes?
 
In the ever-changing creative nature, we know that change is necessary for renewal and rejuvenation, both externally to the body and environment as well as to our subtle energies. We are living at a time when nature decided to bring a more profound change to the Macrocosmic universe as well as to the Microcosmic individual. Our minds’ are isolated and tend to block our creativity by bringing repetition to our patterns. Our mind feels uncomfortable with change and resists because change takes us one step closer to evolution.
 
Every disease has a vibration. We must build immunity and raise our consciousness to bring external protection to the body at the cellular level and the mind and subtle energies at the quantum level. Then we can change the vibration from disease to health. We must use good tools such as meditation, breath, and sound (chanting) to awaken our higher presence.
 
How can we calibrate our consciousness and fine-tune our body to receive signals of healthy vibrations? Can we see that these changes are not happening only at the physical but also at the subtle levels?
 
Join us at our monthly meditation on Sunday, April 26th at 11 AM to explore, discuss, and share, building inner awareness and attention through observation.
 
At the Happyness center, our main aim is to help you develop mindfulness and deeper awareness of your inner self. We learn to see ourselves in silent observation and enquiry rather than act from the noisy activity outside.
 
We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. We will share, learn, and practice together. Group meditations have many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others.
 
Let’s raise our consciousness to understand what makes meaning to our lives.

​I was driving in my car and looking at the snow-covered marvellous mountains. As I was seeing,
there was a feeling and sensation of joy that I did not want to change anything about it.
Immediately a thought entered my mind that said, “I have to bring milk from the grocery store.” I was
disturbed that in the middle of experiencing the beautiful nature, the thought of grocery came
and distracted my experience. I felt upset and resisting the thought of grocery. I saw myself
putting effort to control the thought, so I could go back to enjoying the mountains without distracting thought.

How many of us find resisting something and make an effort to control our thoughts?

Every time when we have a thought that we dislike or when we wish to experience something,
we tend to make an effort to control our thoughts. We think that by controlling them we can achieve
what we want. But we don’t realize that by controlling our thoughts, we are creating an internal
division between “what is” in the moment and what we are trying to control because of what we think "should be”. This control creates conflict within us.

When I was watching the mountains there was no effort to change it. But division occured
in the thought of grocery and in my attempting to resist and control the thought in order to change it.

Why do we make any internal effort to change something all the time?

When we make an effort to change something inside, we create a division and conflict. But
when there is no desire to control or change anything about ourselves, we are connected to our
true self. As human beings, we subconsciously attempting to gain internal control all the time, because we lack the awareness that we are dividing ourselves against each other and are deceived that we have to
control and change our thoughts. We don’t realize that in this effort and control we are
creating a division between the thinker and the thought. We always seek the state of no division but by forcing the effort, we actively work against ourselves, going against our seeking.

When we can see that the thinker and thought are one, then we stop the effort to change it.
We will flow from one thought to another without any fragmentation of our consciousness.
Remembering your true Self is acknowledging the division within and recognising the futility of
effort. Then we stay with “what is” and flow without any internal effort.

At the Happyness center our main aim is to help you develop mindfulness and deeper inner awareness of the ego-self. Together, we learn how to passively observe rather than make an effort to control our thoughts.

We invite you to join our Happyness Center community online for our March Monthly Meditation,
Sunday March 28th , as we explore to remember our true self that is lost in the chaos of division.

We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. We will share, learn, and practice together. Group meditations has many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others.

During the COVID pandemic, many of us might have had the time to review our lives, our relationships, and our priorities in life.
 
But in this time of reflection, have we asked ourselves as to what is our fundamental lasting interest in life?
 
If we answered truthfully, we would say, it is our own self. Some of us would say that it is wrong to be interested in ourselves, but the fact of the matter is that we are primarily interested in ourselves, even when we say it is more satisfactory to help another person.
 
We crave satisfaction in all sorts of ways, subtle and obvious; whether in family, or romantic relationships, helping others in society, a job title or position, or a material possession. We desire more than what we have.
 
Why? Well, we probably know the answer to that already, but most often, we are not willing to be truthful with ourselves or others about it.
 
We crave this satisfaction because we are afraid of being a nobody in our society. We are afraid of going unseen. Of not being desired, respected, or wanted.
 
Our mind might argue – what is wrong with self-satisfaction? What is wrong with wanting these things?
 
This craving for having a position in the society or to be recognized as somebody is a wish to dominate and domination is a form of aggression. Our cravings are based in a fear, and this psychological fear is one of the greatest problems in our lives. Inwardly we are whirlpools of misery and mischief and therefore look outward for gratification.
 
But when we are capable of loving and be kind to ourselves – accepting ourselves as we are, then we will no longer crave satisfaction and recognition. We can realize that satisfaction and happiness does not come from the recognition of others. It does not come from having that which may get us noticed. Instead, we realize that when we can truly love ourselves, we need nothing else.
 
To live a truly happy live, it is it essential for us to seek love and kindness from within ourselves. To make the transition from outward satisfaction that is fickle and ever-changing, to inner satisfaction that is constant and true.
 
And when we can do this, then we can truly give love and kindness to others, because we can give it freely without expectation of return, because we realize we need nothing outside of ourselves. This understanding radically shifts the way that we feel and our ability to give.
 
But how do we learn to look within and what does it look like to give to others unencumbered by our own self-serving cravings? As we enter into the new year, let’s explore this line of thought and discover the importance of loving kindness.
 
At the Happyness center our main aim is to help you develop mindfulness and deeper awareness of your inner self. We learn to enquiry and challenge ourselves to grow as human beings for a better quality of life.
 
We all lead busy lives, and meditation can help us relax and renew. We will share, learn, and practice together. Group meditations has many advantages that can reinforce our desires of daily practice that inspires us and others.
 
Due to pandemic, we will be bringing our monthly meditation to you from the Happyness Center via Zoom. We invite you to join our Happyness Center Community for our Monthly Meditation as we explore and discuss about building loving and kindness within.