Monday, February 9, 2015

The Seven Understandings of All Unhappiness




1.    Unhappiness is the feeling of a belief about a perceived or imagined phenomena; not an experience caused by the phenomena or anything else.

2.    Unhappiness is experiencing your own believing that an event is bad and/or should not be because you believe IT causes unhappiness.

3.    Believing something causes unhappiness is the very reason it seems to “cause” unhappiness.

4.    Believing that something can cause unhappiness is the only cause of the fear of it. By “fear” is meant loathing, need to avoid, need to cure, need to kill or eliminate, disgust, hatred, terror, horror, repulsion, disdain and all such similar feelings.

·         (Fear is not a simple desire to avoid, destroy or otherwise prevent or eliminate a threat to your desire values. That attitude does not need to presume avoiding unhappiness in order to justify a simple desire.)

5.    Believing someone or something is morally wrong or evil, psychologically “sick” or behaviorally inappropriate is to fear that person or thing as if it could cause unhappiness.

6.    Unhappiness is fearing that unhappiness can “happen” or be caused by anything.

7.    Unhappiness is believing that something is necessary, something has to be, should be, ought to be, or must be other than what it is.
by Bruce Di Marsico, 1973

UNHAPPINESS

IS BELEIVING

THAT SOMETHING (even YOU)
PROVES YOU ARE
   (makes YOU feel or be)
A WAY

YOU SHOULD NOT BE,
(which is not bad for YOU*, which means makes YOU bad,)
AND DESERVING OF FEELING BAD.
*”Bad for you” means YOU will have to feel that because of what was “bad for you” YOU cannot feel the way YOU would like to feel. It also has the meaning that YOU cannot be the way YOU are supposed to be. ~Bruce M. Di Marsico

There are four basic definitions of unhappiness:
(1) unhappiness is believing you are not free.

(2) believing you are against yourself.

(3) believing it would be wrong to have the feelings you like.

(4) the belief in the wrongness of being: that your actions or feelings or the world could be wrong.

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