Guest guest Posted March 4, 1999 Report Share Posted March 4, 1999 >laurence beyer <larbeyer9 >To bliss or not to bliss? I'm not exactly sure what I mean by this >either. I know that I experience bliss from time to time during >sadhana, and during my day to day mundane life. My first inclination >is to want to go for it, but then at the same time I want to go beyond >it because I figure if I'm blissed out my ego is hanging around and >I'm not experiencing samadhi. Hi Larry & all, I'm new on this list and have missed the first part of this discussion, but the remarks above intrigued me. Is the issue, perhaps, about clinging to an particular idea of results that is the problem with going for bliss as *the* objective of meditation? I wonder if meditation isn't most helpful to us when we just do it without expectation of particular outcomes? Then we are less apt to get in the way of our *appropriate* outcomes as they came to us - all the way from stress reduction and increased mental alertness through the range of self-healing, acquisition of insight, bliss, samadhi, whatever. It seems to me that bliss is just one of the many things that happen as we practice, and it's important to experience it and then let it dissolve naturally when it is ready to do so. It helps to open the heart. One of the things I've discovered from long practice is that the bliss gradually tends to become a sort of built-in background state, a quiet hum of joy in the back of the mind and heart that is just there as a normal part of being. This does not preclude other emotions on the surface, but they are easily seen to be passing phenomena, to be experienced, to be released, while the underlying joy remains. Forgive me, please, for jumping in without introducing myself, but all my secrets can be found on the two web sites in my sig file. Well, most of them anyway. Jesa ___ jesamac http://www.pobox.com/~jesamac/ http://dharma-haven.org/oas/ ___ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 1999 Report Share Posted March 5, 1999 >Jesa Macbeth <jesamac >Hi Larry & all, > >I'm new on this list and have missed the first part of this discussion, but >the remarks above intrigued me Hi Jesa Welcome to the Kundalini Yoga list. I've read your two postings with interest and also taken a look at your website addresses - a lot of very good information there, and I'll be adding them to the bookmarks section. One point for you and all other new rs - if you want to check back on previous messages in this thread, go to our archives - click on Kundaliniyoga at the ONElist Member Center and then click on archives - you can then browse around. Namaste Gordon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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