In all the Tibetan traditions great emphasis is giving to warning meditators
not to become attached to 3 basic states:
bliss, thought-lessness, and super-clarity.
Any grasping or clinging to pleasant experiences is eschewed.
We tend to think that if we can have a more stable state of bliss,
we have won the game.
But any state is temporary, because of that we begin suffering again
as we can't ever stabilize or grasp permanent bliss
or the 'wow' of some awakening experience.
Awareness has no form of its own or super special state.
It is only the 'I' thought that gets caught up in those sort of bliss chasing stories.
And all those bliss chasing stories simply and harmlessly arise in Awareness
along with all experiences.
-Jackson Peterson
not to become attached to 3 basic states:
bliss, thought-lessness, and super-clarity.
Any grasping or clinging to pleasant experiences is eschewed.
We tend to think that if we can have a more stable state of bliss,
we have won the game.
But any state is temporary, because of that we begin suffering again
as we can't ever stabilize or grasp permanent bliss
or the 'wow' of some awakening experience.
Awareness has no form of its own or super special state.
It is only the 'I' thought that gets caught up in those sort of bliss chasing stories.
And all those bliss chasing stories simply and harmlessly arise in Awareness
along with all experiences.
-Jackson Peterson
Bliss arises when the inner fire blazes throughout the body...
when the male and female essences unite in the heart...
the whole body is suffused with undefiled rapture.
-Karen Armstrong
Wherever you find satisfaction,
the very essence of bliss will be revealed to you
if you remain in this place without mental wavering.
-Vijnanabhairava Tantra
the very essence of bliss will be revealed to you
if you remain in this place without mental wavering.
-Vijnanabhairava Tantra
For the one who has no inner angry thoughts,
who has gone past being a someone, a this or a that,
that one is free from fear and is blissful.
Even the gods cannot win such serenity.
-Buddha
Seated on the same ground,
wearing the same garment of light,
they dwell together in eternal bliss.
-Jnaneshwar
wearing the same garment of light,
they dwell together in eternal bliss.
-Jnaneshwar
