is it possible for all of you to be as happy as you want, when you want to be?
can you completely remove sadness from your life?
is it even possible?
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Although it may be due to some training (meditation in general, working on emotions/feelings) yes, I’m able to somewhat be happy at wil.
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Welcome to the forum!
Please do make your next post your Introduction here, which we need per the forum rules.
And yes, you can learn control of your energy and emotional bodies. I would use qigong for this, you can also use yoga techniques.
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to be happy at will when you have much cause for sadness comes down to keeping your mind in the moment.
most sadness arises from reflections on past loss.
these generally don’t do one much good but people are disposed to revelling in whatever emotion/state the mind presents as most relevant. sadness is an especially bad one.
being in the moment fosters joy. for in the moment all things are appreciated as they are.
another approach is to embrace power. look at your causes for suffering and commit to conquering them by whatever means necessary. uncontrolled sadness is also a form of fatalism and fatalism comes down to consensual self-disempowerment.
start honing your body and mind. optimise yourself to conquer all your adversitites and their causes.
there is joy in being powerful. and in inner power you see the same things that would make you sad and look at them instead as things to dominate rather than be subjugated by.
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dude i was asking you if you can do it at will, like have people achieved it, but thanks for your reply
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that question along with the others you asked were answered
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Happiness is generally thought of as circumstantial in its essences, but you want peace profound joy unspeakable right?
I’ve been exploring this very concept for about two years now. Basically we want to get high on our own supply, right? I feel that meditation, gratitude, and exercise are the keys to this but I’ve heard practitioners of tantra say that they can access bliss whenever they want. The Bliss of Inner Fire is a book that touches on this but I can’t speak to whether or not the techniques work or not as I haven’t tried them.
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That’s pretty neato
bliss can be dangerous, no different from taking opiods to one who can achieve it at will.
i went towards this early on but i found it to be sedating. a pleasant compulsive but a compulsive all the same. even with control it can be fraught with danger depending on circumstance.
i’ve always preferred peace as my default and joy and others as arises.
as @Mulberry indicated meditation of mind and body(tai chi/qi gong/dance/yoga) are great for this.
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It’s interesting that you say that, and it reminds me of something E.A. said in an old video, only about soul travelling. He got so good at it he started to treat that as a method of escapism and was living more out of body than in it, which had negative effects on his productivity and building his life the way he wanted it.
The answer is yes, in case I wasn’t clear 
Sadness is an energy you have, it’s not who you are. So if you control your energy, you control whether you keep the energy of sadness, you can literally put in away from you. In qigong sadness is stored in the lungs, which is why you sigh more when you are sad, so you rebalance your lung meridian by dong balancing qigong exercises such as Tai Chi or the microcosmic orbit, or specific exercises for the lung organs and meridian (you will find free ones on youtube).
However, the energy of sadness is not the cause of the sadness. It’s a result of things that you react to sadly. To sop that you have to address that, and either remove or accept it so that you stop that reaction and stop generating more sadness.
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I believe it is in Ipsissimus where EA discusses being so blissed out that he couldn’t come down. He didn’t care about anything, and lost all of his material possessions, preferring to be homeless and sleeping in cemeteries. All he felt was utter joy and he literally had to call up his teacher and beg him to tell him how to come back down.
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Wow I never heard this story before. I guess it goes without saying that too much of a good thing is bad.
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