The shortest path to the happiness is inward

The word God is called in the ancient Iranian book Avesta "Khwa-O-Ata" which means "installed on oneself" or "self created".

According to an already forgotten Persian expression "to find oneself is equal to being god". The word god in Persian is called "khoda" but "khod" in itself means "self" and "a" also means "catch on". So the word khoda which means god in Persian also has the meaning catch oneself on. With this introduction, I want to remind that the real title of this post is called "Catch yourself on so that you become paarsaa (bigger than life), so that you become god".

Human being should not be manipulated by every possible provocations. Whether these provocations should come from within, from the subconscious part of one's own mind or from without, from other people's indoctrinations, speeches or actions. One should be aware of and master the reaction over these stimulations. The awareness of the human being and thus freedom from within is based on two foundations:

• The monitoring of the thoughts and the choice of the good thought according to the pattern "good thought, good word and good deed" to keep mentally in balance. If one pays attontion to own thoughts, going to notice that some thoughts are different from one's way of thinking and one's personality and therefore it is wise that those thoughts are regarded as foreign thoughts and get ignored.

To avoid irritation from such thoughts one should concentrate i.e. direct the attention, for example, in the forehead or in the eyes and at the same time zero the thought. But one should beware that never press on the brain. However, it is also very important to be aware of not to confuse thinking with illusion. The thinking is the sane and right thinking, but the illusion is the unfounded and wrong thinking. Experience has shown that over 95% of the thoughts of ordinary people are illusions

• Stability against the emotions by being larger than life (being paarsaa) in order to stay mentally in balance. If one pays attontion to own emotions, will notice that some emotions are either inappropriate or they are based on foreign thoughts that one has to stay stable against them because they are just some passing interactions in the blood that will soon pass.

To avoid irritation from such feelings, one should concentrate i.e. direct the attontion, for example, in the forehead or in the eyes and at the same time zero the thoughts. But beware that never press on the brain. However, after a short while, the concentration neutralizes the irritating emotions

But what is good and evil, and what is the reference to distinguish good from evil? A human being has hands, legs, eyes, ears and mouth as well as wisdom. Wisdom has a desk called "mental ability". A confluence place for thoughts and feelings that can be illustrated as a ring. A ring in the ”Mehr” or ”Mitraism” is, of course, the sign of a covenant or of promising something. Whereas the covenant and the promise are nothing but mental commitment.

One of the tools of this desk is the conscience or inner wisdom. Even some animals, in their behavior, reflect an ability of the conscience. If the mental capacity of the human being is not manipulated for any reason, the conscience is clearly the guiding principle of her/his judgment. Even if the mentality is manipulated, this force still does its work, although weakened.

What is confirmed by the conscience is good and what is condemned by this ability is evil. On the other hand, one should not forget to monitor own thoughts and feelings by the mean of the consciousness, and not blindly abandon one's behaviors entirely to the habits. Although this monitoring of thought and feeling can also become a habit in which case the process becomes easier.

The approach is in that way to pay attention to the thoughts and thus to the emotions to see if they are based rightly and logically? If they are good and fair? Instead of habitually and automatically, follow them like flocks with the closed eyes.

If we honestly pay attention to what we feel instead of deceiving ourselves and imagining feelings in ourselves, we will also not allow ourselves to be exposed to foreign indoctrinations. Then we can bravely face the problems and meet the future events in peace and quiet with mental control and therefore a balanced psyche to take the necessary measures one by one.

One should accept whatever she/he is. But one should be very careful that what one thinks is, is not an illusion. One should try to be zero in the mind and not just sigh passively for something. Do it or forget it as some are used to say. If you just passively sigh for something, it means that you take distance from yourself. To be oneself is equal to the art of walking on the rope i.e. to stay in balance, which requires watching over thoughts and feelings that have arisen.

The foreign thoughts plus the foreign feelings that also originate from such thoughts can in the form of usually acicular indoctrinations be induced to one, which can be a reason why foreign thoughts and feelings seem to be her/his own. But one should be aware that by believing in such indoctrinations it is oneself who, because of drowning in illusions which oneself as a result of this acicular stimulus creates, arises them to live and thus makes a reality of them.

So one should be alert not to be deceived by such indoctrinations and most importantly not to accept the illusions and not follow them. If, at the time of the emergence of these acicular indoctrinations in the mind, one reacts by saying to oneself "death to the devil" or some other condemning meaning, the source of this acicular indoctrination will realize one is awake and does not follow its indoctrination and therefore will reduce its disturbance.

The occurrence of these acicular indoctrinations is usually accompanied by pain and anxiety which is a warning signal to be aware that one has been attacked by indoctrination. If one does not heed the warning, she/he can sink more into anxious feelings and thus may end up out of own mental balance. The solution is to concentrate and let go of the induced thought that is causing the pain. In this way that to direct the attention in the eyes and at the same time get out of the thought that was just being held. What is called zeroing one's thought.

In a living person, the ability to think is constantly active, and if one is not on own guard, the thoughts begin to sigh passively for a dream, a memory, an emotional state, a social state or thousands other attractions.

Whereas human being is greater than life and therefore it is not worthy of her/him to just sigh passively for things. As been said the motto is "just do it or forget it". If one just passively sighs for something, it means that she/he has left own post over the guarding of own thoughts and feelings. That is, one has abandoned her-/himself and left her-/himself alone. In other word one has sold her-/himself to a fantasy and therefore have no other fate than to sooner or later plunge into the ditch of worry and anxiety.

In such a case, one just has to let go, concentrate and zero own thought and regain own guard over the thoughts and feelings. One should just stop sighing passively for things and instead be ”with” her-/himself.

There are two types of thinking. One is that human being is awake and consciously thinking of something with own consciousness. In this case, the consciousness dominates the mind and one has the mental focus. You are simply concentrated.

The second one is to park consciousness and in a half-awake state, leave control of own mind to the subconsciousness or even to the alien indoctrinations that can be derived from the Maynavi world (the mental world, the mentality). This influence of others' thoughts and indoctrinations is also maximized in the concrete world. Because it is in this state of mind that the focus is minimal and foreign thoughts or indoctrinations can do the most harm to the human being. Its first signal is the onset of anxiety and frustration in human being followed by mental instability as a result. If these thoughts and indoctrinations are brought to life by word and action, they can create devastating effects.

The illusions or fantasies that human being encounters in such state usually have no real basis. The human being who is affected by these illusions is not awake and does not rely on her/his own consciousness and therefore as a lost individual has no control over her/his mental ability to examine and choose among its thoughts and emotions.

In such a case as one has lost her-/himself, automatically follows the illusions without any control. Illusions that one through own words or deeds often happens to realize them. Illusions that can have a long distance to the truth, straightness and goodness. Human being in this state can be asserted is a semi-human who in captivity of illusions and animal instincts distances from her-/himself, and sets foot in devilish spheres.

Thats why she/he is condemned primarily by her/his own conscience and then by the general conscience and thus she/he feels bad. Feelings of anxiety and frustration are the special symptoms of this condition that lead to more mental instability and therefore falling into the vicious spiral of more anxiety, more frustration and more loosing her/himself.

In case of worry and anxiety, either as a result of mental illusions or materialistic problems, one should ignore all thoughts and feelings, concentrate by directing one's attention in own eyes and by letting the occupied thoughts be, zeroing the thought so as to calm oneself down in order that one can find the balance again so that the ability to think can function freely and thus can find a solution.

If one can come up with a solution then will surely take appropriate actions, otherwise one should abandon the idea and ignore it for the time being. One should be aware that if one pays attontion to each and every thought and feeling, this in itself leads to the alleviation of the worry and anxiety and thus helps one to find the balance. One should not forget that being mentally balanced is the very first priority.

A characteristic of people who have not catched themselves on yet, especially in some women, is that when it comes to their own feelings, they usually give out a double bill. Something like when they inhale, they require one bill for the breath and another for the inconvenience. The reason is that their own feelings seem very complicated and huge to them. Like an ant that has ended up in a drop of water and screams that the world has been flooded.

Whereas if one meets own emotions and instead of following them according to the habit, waits a while and examines them, she/he can see that many of them are inappropriate and stem only from an unstable mentality which with a simple concentration is going to disappear and thus one is going to avoid many subsequent problems too. So one should stop slavishly following any emotions that appears in the mentality without waiting a moment, and examining them, and if necessary neutralizing them with a moment of concentration.

Lonely people are only those people who have not yet catched themselves on and abandoned themselves alone. Alone is really only the one who does not have her-/himself even if everyone else has surrounded one.

When one is with someone or is among a gang, is traveling or spending her/his time in the nature, does an activity or just has fun, one's attention is drawn to one or more things and this attraction means indeed concentration, which is the factor that means one has forgetten the anxiety that wrongly is interpreted as the feeling of loneliness because one's attention has been drawn to what she/he thinks is interesting and as a result one is mentally concentrated. That is the attention is directed to one point.

Now when the interesting objects eventually lose their freshness and can no longer attract one's attention, one loses concentration and is back in the first stage. Then she/he passively sighs for other interesting objects, which is really sighing after finding her-/himself and becoming one with her-/himself again. It is then in the absence of oneself that one suffers from worry and anxiety.

So the most important thing here is to be concentrated, which requires that one should be aware of her/his thoughts and mental ability at all times. This awareness is the ultimate technique and its tool is the concentration.

The concentration is actually no complicated and difficult thing at all, as well as it does not need any fancy rituals either. On the contrary, because it is so easy and simple, one passeses it also easily by.

As Bruce Lee said once: "It's like a finger pointing away to the moon." It's simply about the attention (Attention, attention. Do I have your attention?). Directing the attention on what so ever such as the forehead or more practically in the eyes and at the same time zeroing the thoughts. And doing so while sitting, walking, with open or closed eye, trying to sleep or any position at all.

I personally focus on what ever I see and stop continuing any thought I followed right that time, as well as feeling whatever really feels which is almost nothing and thus do not imagine any feeling either. This awareness and concentration is the shortest path to the ultimate goal i.e. to happiness.

An adult does not need love, and does not need to be proud of anything either. What one really needs is that one should simply be in mental balance. The secret of love is that it makes one feels good when expressing love to someone or something. A feeling of enthusiasm and hope. An excuse to be. Like someone who uses drugs. But here these substances are produced by one's own brain and flow into the bloodstream.

Whereas this condition is something abnormal and out of balance. In other words, one loses oneself with love or pride and assumes that love or pride is an excuse to be able to stand on one's own feets. Whereas if the Human being is balanced in mental ability, she/he has indeed her-/himself and thus does not need any excuses or anything other than her-/himself to be able to be.

As said before, in order to be mentally balanced, one should in the first step monitor the mental ability with the help of the own consciousness rather than leaving control to the subconsciousness and follow from habit anything that appears in the mental ability with blindness. Which can also be equal to being distorbed by mental disorders.

Monitor the mental capacity to be able to choose between thoughts and feelings with the help of own wisdom. Which in practice means to be above the mental capacity, i.e. be its king and not its slave. In the second step, one can neutralize the unwanted thoughts and feelings by concentrating and zeroing the thought.

Thus, by taking the shortest step (which is inward), one will be freed from the dominance of any thought and feeling, and will no longer need to grab any refuge in order to be able to stand on own feet and continue to live. When one learns awareness and concentration with zeroing the thought, grief and anxiety will no longer affect one.

This awareness and concentration is equal to taking the shortest possible path towards the goal of happiness and balance, towards catching on oneself, becoming bigger than life (becoming paarsaa), becoming god as it means in Farsi.

However, one must pay attention that to knowing this technique is one thing, to carry it out is another thing and to master it is something completely different that requires practice and repetition which takes time to become proficient at.