Dogging Happiness

Every day we are sold, we create, and we believe realities that are illogical, irrational, and incredibly unrealistic. From the narcissist who creates a world that revolves around them, to the rich who believe they deserve their wealth, to the sociopath who harms indiscriminately, to the apathetic whose numbers may not seek to harm but (regardless) they do not believe that Exoteric Goodness is worth the effort, to the customer who truly believes they should be #1, to the bureaucrat who dictates policy and procedure from their golden throne in their ivory tower, to the employee who maintains a facade sometimes to a point where they think they believe it, to the comfortable who build walls to keep suffering out of sight, to the politicians who believe they deserve their power, to the adherent who is convinced (and works at convincing others) that there exists a single overriding Truth, to the suffering who believe "If only...'THIS'... then my suffering will cease."

These are not unassailable realities.

Unassailable reality is the runoff pain of cold, hunger, fear, attrition, heat, darkness, confusion, grief, disappointment, regret, heartache, shame, exhaustion, loneliness, allergy, illness, injury, disease, excrement, blood, piss, pus, phlegm, vomit... ...a flowing, capricious cornucopia of effluvial amenities deposited courtesy of one's Humanity.

I believe there are other manifest realities. I believe they include (1) Compassion, (2) Communal Responsibility, (3) Inner Peace, (4) Exoteric Goodness, and (5) Work accomplished through the Why-Cycle; (i.e. acknowledged ignorance - to uncertainty and doubt - to skeptical questioning - re energizing one's search for Truth and Wisdom - which then cycles back to acknowledged ignorance). All five of these have been previously discussed throughout this site, with the last three (Inner Peace, Exoteric Goodness, and Work) presented (in the post Working Toward Happiness) as "structural components grounded in the empirical and arching outward toward the transcendental." I believe the same could be said for Compassion and Communal Responsibility which were discussed in later posts, most predominantly Here. Additionally, I believe when used thoughtfully and consistently, all five components will aid in alleviating the pain and incoherence of our empirical existence.

Again, there is hope found in the hopeless; there is direction given in the disjointed; there is inspiration sprung from vexation; there is a radiance to be divined from the gloom.

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