Cosmic Truth

Every cosmic truth has its human counterfeit. There is true happiness and false happiness, authentic progress and pseudo-progress, right thinking and wrong thinking. Because cheerfulness is both good and necessary, we want to distinguish bewteen genuine and false cheer.

Counterfeit cheer is based on a delusion. Maybe you meet someone whose exterior manner makes you feel good. You assume he has power to help you, but a closer relationship reveals him as weak and hostile. You now see that your cheerfulness toward him was based on misunderstanding.

But there is true gaiety. It appears naturally, effortlessly, when we see things as they are. Founded on the rock of reality, it remains in place, regardless of the shifting sands of the Outer World.

by The Daily Guru