Bliss is not even happiness. Bliss is more like peace than like happiness. Bliss is neither unhappiness nor happiness; it is peace from that turmoil, that conflict. It is the transcendence of duality. Happiness always lingers with unhappiness; unhappiness is always it’s other side, happiness. They are two sides of the same coin. Whenever the coin drops from your hand, you are neither happy or unhappy. What we call happiness is psychological. Whenever you find a certain moment of elation your ego is fulfilled, you feel happy but only for the time being, because your ego is fulfilled. You have defeated all other competitors, you have arrived; where others have failed, you have succeeded; or you have much money, power, prestige, fame. But soon one becomes tired of it all. Only successful people know how tiring success is. Only rich people know how utterly disappointed they are but they cannot even say so, because to say so seems to be even more foolish, people will laugh. They have wasted their whole lives accumulating wealth and now they say that it is stupid. The ego does not want to do that; the ego wants to go on keeping the illusion.
Seeing this game of happiness and unhappiness, the watcher, the mediator becomes unidentified with both. When happiness comes, he knows unhappiness will be coming , so why get excited? When unhappiness comes, he is not at all disturbed because he knows happiness will be coming just around the corner, so why become disturbed? He is neither excited by happiness nor disturbed by unhappiness. This is peace. He remains the same, in a deep equilibrium; his silence is undisturbed. Day comes and goes, night comes and goes, everything comes and goes. He remains a witness, unconcerned, cool. That coolness, that discernment is peace.
Whenever ego is fulfilled, you feel happy; however, bliss is not happiness but a totally different phenomenon. It is not plea sure because it is not physiological. It is not happiness because there is no ego fulfillment. On the contrary, it is dissolution of the ego, it is dissolving your separate entity into the whole. That’s what meditation is all about, merging, melting into the whole, totally forgetting that you are separate, remembering your unity with the whole. All that is needed is a remembrance; all that is needed is dropping this false notion that we are separate. In those rare moments when you can put aside your ego, your personality, your body, mind complex, and you are just a watcher, a witness, a consciousness, you know the first taste of meditation. And with that, immediately great bliss comes, it rushes toward you from all directions, from all dimensions. All your inner emptiness is immediately fulfilled. It becomes a lake of bliss. ❤️
Open your hands 🤲!! ❤️☀️☮️🌸🌈🧘🏻♀️🕉🙏
Just processing about the ego and how to conquer negativity
