Sunday Reflections — The path of bliss
This week, Sunday Reflections walks the path of bliss:
“All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance — these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.” ~ Deepak Chopra
“…Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand, you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
“Bliss follows witnessing — and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate. Remain rooted in witnessing: “I am only a watcher.” That is going to transform your whole life, it is going to give you the ultimate.” ~ Rajneesh
“My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it… One simply watches, one says, ‘Yes, a white cloud passing’. And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, ‘A black cloud passing — I am the witness, the watcher.” ~ Rajneesh
“But I am not interested in happiness at all. Because basically it has to depend on its opposite — and anything that depends on its opposite keeps you divided. And to live divided is to live in hell. I would like you to attain something which is not dependent on its opposite — in fact, which has no opposites to it. Bliss has no opposite to it. And to be blissful is to have arrived home: one becomes a Buddha — serene, calm, cool, quiet, and yet utterly blissful.” ~ Rajneesh
