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Date Posted: 11:36:58 10/01/06 Sun
Author: H - 7 Sept 2006
Subject: Re: On Bliss
In reply to: Anon - 6 Sept 2006 's message, "On Bliss" on 11:31:29 10/01/06 Sun


We then think that the gap between sufferings is bliss. In life, we seem to experience happiness only in gaps between sufferings.

There are many gradations between absolute bliss and absolute suffering. If you are in emotional turmoil or have grave physical problems this might be suffering. And why "we"? Some people lead a happy, even blissful life with mere phases of suffering in between.

For example, you have a great desire to eat a sweet. When you eat the sweet, you feel joy. You associate that feeling of joy with the sweet and you wish to eat more of the sweet. If you keep eating more and more of it, at one point in time, you feel revulsion not joy; you cannot eat any more. If your joy was really associated with the sweet, then the joy should only multiply, is it not? But it doesnt happen that way. What is it then that gave you that joy?

The sweet of course!

What actually happens is, when you feel that you are enjoying an object, the moment that object is near you, the number of thoughts in your mind reduces, and a feeling of peace and joy expresses itself. But you associate this feeling with the object, the sweet!

Nevertheless it is the sweet that brings it about. The shock of a dog suddenly barking at you might also rob you of all thoughts, but it isn't something blissful at all.

The style of the writing reminds me of J. Krishnamurti.

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