“Feeling good” can be an attachment too.

You attach yourself to it.

Now, whenever you’re not feeling good – you are feeling even worse.

 

Can “feeling good” be captured? Can happiness be captured? Can it be encapsulated in a word? Words?

By naming your feeling it now becomes an idea. A standard.

Now you will define it — and then you will compare yourself to it.

Something shall happen and you will decide that it is unfortunate. It doesn’t meet your definition of happiness – therefore it’s unhappiness.

 

Or you expect to feel good.

You don’t want a lot of money, you don’t want a lot of fame, you don’t want a lot of success – but you do want to feel good.

And I am here to tell you – you are not entitled to feeling good.

You are only entitled to live.

You can end this if it’s dissatisfying – and it is a liberating thought. Because some of us believe that the suffering never ends. It does. Everything ends.

You can die, and the way I see it – this is the best encouragement to live. All the things you truly can do…

…but you are not entitled to feel good. You may feel terrible.

 

“Feeling good” cannot be your substitute for the impermanent, vane pursuits of this world.

There is no substitute.

There is only the end of pursuits.

You must end pursuits.

This includes “feeling good”.

No more pursuing the good feeling.

No more pursuits altogether.

And while it’s not the point – bear in mind it’s pursuing, it’s chasing, which brings the most suffering.

So relax now.

You don’t have to “feel good”.

You probably will. But you don’t have to. And it’s ok.