In this episode, I answer this question using three perspectives:

1. Vedanta, the science of consciousness
2. Philosophy, specifically Analytic Idealism
3. Science, specifically Conscious Realism

Bottom line, we are all on consciousness. With this understanding, the way the world is going today is not so good. However, there is hope that through the growth of the intellect in each of us that allows us to discern truth about some of the big questions...who am I? What is the nature of reality? How, therefore, do you relate correctly to the world? 

Stress is the mental agitation produced by unfulfilled desires. The mind produces endless desires, because that is what it is designed to do. When we train the intellect through introspection and contemplation, we strengthen it. A strong intellect discerns when to give credence to the mind's desires and when to mitigate and regulate it. 

The paradox of happiness is explore in this short episode. 

It is...

I am it...

I forget...

I remember...

Being a good person entails right actions, flowing from a sense of giving rather than taking; operating from love, our shared sense of being; and from the knowledge of our true self as awareness. 

Three paradigms are explored in this episode: 1) the sense that we are separate from one another, 2) the sense that there are discrete objects that are separate from me, the subject, 3) the sense that we are the thinker and the doer at the center of experience.

When we view ourselves as the body and mind, free will is an illusion. When we know ourselves as Consciousness, free will is a reality. 

We often confuse consciousness/awareness with first person subjectivity. Consciousness is that which is aware of even our first person subjectivity. This is a subtle but important distinction.

The belief that I am a separate body-mind is the core belief that causes our individual and collective struggles

When we sit in simple, wide open, spacious awareness, we notice how the mind takes an aggressive stance towards the present moment.