If you think the key to happiness . . .

If you think the key to happiness resides in your thoughts . . .
Then what you’ll be searching for is that thought (or set of thoughts)
That contains your happiness.

And you will have to hold that thought (or set of thoughts)
Permanently in your mind,
Or else, each time you think about something different,
There goes your happiness!

How wondrous it is, then, to discover that
The happiness you would otherwise be seeking in your thoughts
Already pre-exists all your thoughts
And is the essence, or foundation, of WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

Though every thought, except for the one you have right now,
Has dissolved from your mind,
YOU have persisted as a continuous aware presence,
The intelligence that has known each passing thought,
That has felt the vibrancy of each feeling and emotion,
That has experienced every morsel of
Every perception and sensation of your life experience.

YOU are the limitless, ever-pristine field, the all of everything,
Open, unobstructed, imperturbable,
Situated beyond space and time,
And whose only “qualities” are known . . . by default . . .
As love, as peace, as happiness.