This might be too soon for this kind of write up but what the heck.

Everyone, including myself always talk about bliss and peace.  Because that is what everyone wants, yes?  But the bliss and peace that meditation offers, although far better than what you imagine, is still, not what you imagine it to be.

The ego wants pleasure, an egostical experience of peace and bliss, like how you feel on drugs or during sex or when everyone is cheering your name.

But such pleasure is still limiting, because it arises temporarily from the perspective of the individual, selfish perspective.  The ego perspective is not bad, but it is a suffering.  The very perspective of ego/separation is a suffering.

So in meditation, through whatever practice you do, you move beyond your mental turmoil, you move beyond your emotional turmoil, you move beyond your physical turmoil, and then what is left?  Love peace and bliss, right?

 WRONG!

 Sorry about that, what is left is pain, often felt in the solar plexus. The core feeling of separation.  A feeling of despair.  It is in surrendering to this pain, in allowing yourself to experience it that you transcend this individual selfish perspective. 

It is in humility, in having all of your preconceived ideas about how you are and what you know taken to pieces that you find peace.

Then, there is true peace.  Because there is nothing left to fear or hold on to.

But the good news is there is tons of peace and bliss the whole way through.  But it comes and goes.  And if you try and hold on to it, then you suffer, you get stuck and can’t move beyond yourself. 

You must allow yourself to experience whatever is arising, without blame, without trying to change it, resist it, judge it, define it, analyze it.  It is just to surrender to whatever is there.  Then grace takes care of it.  Consciousness itself does the work.

The true of experience of peace and bliss and love is unconditional.  It is there for no reason.  And it is there in the absence of who you think you are.  It is there in the absence of this individual ego perspective.

 There must be perserverance.  To continuously allow yourself to experience what is here and in this the giving up indvidual control.

And there must be grace, some sort of enlightened energetic like you will experience from the Calling CDs http://www.bliss-music.com/thecalling.htm or Ocean Euphoric www.bliss-music.com/oceaneuphoric.htm  and/or to sit with a fully enlightened teacher on a regular basis, one where you feel their presence.

The good news is, the moment you are present in this moment, the moment you allow yourself to fully be here, you are instantly at peace.  It is that easy.  Then you really experience life instead of avoiding it.

 I wish everyone much peace and bliss,

Blessings,

 Kip Mazuy

www.bliss-music.com

Date posted : September 7th, 2007 by kip Last Modified : September 7th, 2007 / Filed under : Feeds, Musings / Report a Concern Navigate : Previous post / Next post / Top of Page
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