Message #24202

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Have you ever felt really good and you may have noticed that you were not thinking about it. Just experiencing feeling good. As a matter of fact the more you may have thought about it the more you may have noticed you were loosing the experience.

Likewise I do not see bliss as thought. Because when someone tries to cognize the experience they have of bliss; it quickly disappears. This is the nature of the mind-- always wanting validation and it grabs onto experience and chokes it. It is much more difficult to experience such states of bliss and joy when we are bound by the bustle of daily life. Only an enlightened Master would be able to experience bliss and joy at all times and in all surroundings. Therefore it is important to occasionally take ourselves out of the routine and environment we have fenced ourselves into and experience for instance the language of silence and nature for a day at perhaps a park, the woods, the mountains a river or the ocean. We can then more easily slow the thoughts down and let peace slip in the cracks of constant bothersome thought patterns.

Does one remember things that did not happen this life time or does one create them? Ah but why would one create memories without volition to do so?

I do not 'think' we have to always experience thought. We can just experience awareness. Thought is only a tool we use to 'fix' things. When there is no need to fix things why reach for the tool box? I am using thought to convey this message it is conveyed by thought because of awareness that I had while in the woods mediating this morning. Awareness and the joy of being inspired such thoughts. Now I hope to go back to some form of awareness without so much thought to interfere. However I will soon be mediating again because the mind and emotions often crowd there way into my awareness as well. Practice, practice, practice and one day. YES!