Tyranny of Happiness versus Peace

Just following up the realisation last week after the wedding had past into history and the happiness so caused had gone the same way…

The reason why the wise “value peace more than pleasure” is that pleasure, like happiness, comes and goes. Pursuing an ever changing thing one minute here, the next minute there, will achieve one thing for sure: a lack of Peace.

There is a tyranny to happiness. We read the magazine, we watch the films, we hear about our friends so blissfully in love, or enjoying their jobs, so happy with their new house, or having found the joy of their life in their children. All this is good but if we then feel the need to pursue those elusive happinesses for ourself, as though a new Gold Rush, then we become disturbed and wish to leave ourselves and go somewhere else. This disruption is Non-Peace.

Just as the previous post on Helping shows … if we are not happy now, again!, what makes us think filling the void with more happiness again will make any difference! Seek Peace.

Nice blog entry:
http://bluemooncandles.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/becoming-more-patient-with-those-around-you/

Interesting how Nature features so highly in the concept of Peace and Tranquillity. I still don’t understand the connection – tho I had a glimpse of an answer recently, I forget what it was… will turn up here soon no doubt

Then there is the other version of the concept of Peace which includes Innocence and Purity which is a personal favourite. This is an ideal which seems to have little credence being associated with ponies and dolls… I disagree: it’s one of the doorways to a better global future. This was the real battle (in my mind) with “my muse” – she for whatever reason wanted corruption which I still think is a dead end. Purity on the other hand is a precious thing which we all do well to cultivate.

For added complexity the energy represented in this picture is intense and quite high. Compare with the picture of Buddha below and then the picture of Rosie from Nutz magazine below that. It is kind of a mistake to mix these pictures, but I have meant to contrast them for ages.

The energy in the serenity of Buddha is not as full bodied and voluptuous as that of the fountain above. It is thinner and simpler, not as seductive. It really is cool water to freshen the mind. I call this an even higher energy than the fountain picture.

Now compare the energy of these pictures of serenity and energy with this one of Rosie from Nutz magazine. This is what confuses me (and so many other people). There is a lot of energy in this picture! It is highly charged, voluptuous and seductive. However while the energy is large it is a much lower level than both the pictures above. These three pictures are competing for different expressions of the same energy which is why you rarely see the comparison. It is easiest for the energy to gravitate to this image. The peace and serenity is of a very trivial level. This is why I want to convince myself “my muse” was a mistake – it is still difficult however to make the transition once and for all to higher energies. Rosie unfortunately represents more Happiness than Peace as anyone who has tried to have a relationship will know – a quote I liked while researching the wedding speech went something like this:

Marriage never works because the man marries to find peace while the woman is always looking to cause trouble. [quote by a woman]

Obviously unusable for the speech ;-)

It is interesting too while I examine the sexual form of insects etc why nature goes to such enormous lengths to make reproduction attractive. It is true that those creatures that breed more have higher fitness so there is obvious evolutionary pressure to make breeding attractive … but for females to have to become so attractive suggests to me that there is little innate attractiveness is breeding itself. Every bit of seductiveness in Rosie must represent a breeding cost that she is having to disguise and fool the male in to! Its the same argument I use against advertising. A product which has to advertise, create a brand, and worry about packaging and image can’t be very good else it would sell on its own merit. Breeding evidently can’t sell on its own merit. Women will hate this argument because as I’ve noticed it cuts very deep into the female strategy. It works equally well the other way around however, as men work to accumulate territories and wealth to advertise their breeding value.