Sunday, February 05, 2006

Thank you for your comments. Do not be afraid to sign them. If you don't want others to know who you are, then let's make us names. Sign your comments with the name you always wanted to be called, or a spirit name you would like to have. This way if you continue to comment others can follow your line of thinking and begin to know you as an entity, even if you are writing as 'freebird' or some such name.

I want to speak to the comments on bliss. It is a good question for those of us who have had moments of bliss. Why do we so easily forget and continue on with the mundane. Why would we not seek to continue and recreate that state of bliss? I think it has a lot to do with worthiness. Do we really feel that we deserve a life of peace, bliss and abundance? If life gets too smooth and wonderful, do we begin to feel guilty and uncomfortable? Do we then subconsciously create a crisis so that we are more like other people? How would you feel if your life was fantastic while your friends were struggling with complicated problems? When people ask how you are doing, will you say fantastic, and be excited, or do you feel the need to scrape up a problem to discuss because everyone else is sharing their tough life stories. Would it be bad to have a great life when others don't?

Perhaps we don't seek bliss because we don't really believe it is a possibility in this world. Or if it were possible, it may be awkward to be the only one experiencing it, or perhaps people would think us delusional. Better to fit in and be unhappy and complain!

Another comment was made that perhaps death brings the quiet and then we can sustain bliss. But... my experience, reading and research all lead to the conclusion that we continue after death and carry on with our life experience, just at a different level. I read somewhere that you cannot escape life through death but only through truth.

And so it seems that peace and bliss will never come to us uninvited, that if we don't seek it here and now, it does not just show up later. The activities of our lives, are shaping our afterlife. Death will solve nothing. It will only change the characters, never the situations.

So why wait...what could be more imporatnt than the path of peace, joy and happiness? I think it may be scary to ask ourselves, what kind of future and afterlife have the events of today created for me?

2 Comments:

At 1:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Tina
I believe what you have said and would every much like to achieve Bliss. But I find it hard to meditate often and feel that something in my past conditioning is holding me back. Bliss sounds wonderful, now I need the discipline to grow. This seems to be harder that it sounds!
Thanks for your inspiring comments.
Heather

 
At 9:49 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...you cannot escape life through death but only through truth."

...and what is truth but being who you were meant to be, in sync with the universe, life and everything, meshed and entwined yet you. The spirit within is true to those without. Death is not an escape, refuge or an excuse but can be a life changing experience (tongue in cheek) just like a kick (mind you, a pretty big kick)in the ass or a moment of bliss. What we do with it is what counts just as you "choose" to meditate or not. Now, what difference is this death experience make in your life, being? Like the movie, "Groundhog Day", do we go through "life" until we ge get it "right"?
Whether bliss shows up unannounced or not I don't know but some of the moments seemingly come together pretty fortuitously.

...worthiness and guilt, now there's another kettle of fish...

- Rana

 

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