Giving in to temptation is like scratching the scab off of an unhealed wound, it does not allow one to completely heal from their experience and only reflects their tendency to avoid healing. Complete healing would be for one to understand that their desire is harmless.
The reason why I think that Truth and Happiness are ultimately the same thing is because as I mentioned before: the contradictive mentality is what causes uneasiness, that feeling of incompleteness, of lacking, that deludes one to think that perfection is absent unless a goal is achieved, that compels one to question whether existence really is, or may be it not. Truth is what straightens it out; and even though the scheme of the principle is convoluted, its shape is sure. Happiness is seeing things as they are, happiness is leveling out the bumps on the road, it is untying the knots in the string of consciousness, it is unfolding the crane and beholding the creature as just another facet of Nature. If you are ever lured by happiness, you have already lost it; whenever you believe that you have not quite yet reached the Truth, then you have once more missed the point that Truth cannot be lost and is present HERE. This is what I meant by being “rigorous in being satisfied”; to not let a moment pass by without you being happy; because once you allow dissatisfaction to make a suggestion, it will lure you to the greatest depths of the abyss by making you think it’s the way out; the more you keep running, the more desperate you will get.
Be rigorous in being happy, this means focus on your breathing and do not be veered off by temptation.
Question: If an action is inspired by temptation, must not one seek to counteract the response to temptation? is it not wrong to proceed in it?
Answer: If an action is inspired by temptation, one must halt temptation by maintaining focus and satisfaction; it is not wrong to proceed in the action, it is wrong to be lured to an opposite action by temptation again.
Question: If an action is inspired by temptation, how must I not regret what I have done?
Answer: Regret is the deeper part of the dark abyss I just mentioned, to allow regret to form is to succumb to temptation to the point that you can no longer even reach satisfaction animalistically (unless of course, you can find a way to erase your memory, or undo the past).
Something interesting that I noticed and I think may be essential to note, is the possibility that I do not need to know these things I am writing down to find happiness, but by the principle of “fooling yourself to look for reasons to be happy”, you learn these things that I am writing down by practicing happiness. In other words, you do not need to know these things to be happy, but it is being happy that gives you access to these truths. The important message here is to not be fooled by temptation when it tells you that you need to walk back out of the abyss (or do not be discouraged because “you do not have the knowledge you need to be happy”), you just have to stop walking into it (or you just have to grasp satisfaction), and the light will certainly reach you (you will have gained the knowledge of it).
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