It
is felt by many that bliss that is ananda(आनन्द) is the epitome of meditation and
enlightenment. Some wise ones have said it maybe brief interludes from a
suffering depressed mind. However I feel from my brief encounters with this
‘grace’ and it has been a saving grace and for me when my fear and thinking has
subsided by meditation and deep relaxation then the brain in this simple
‘letting go’ supplies different chemicals to the body and the neuropeptides
cause a healing and uplifting effect, especially the endorphins.
This
maybe seen as denying God’s gift of grace but I feel that the moment one relinquishes
fear not by suppression but realising that fear is not who we / I am, then the
peace and grace that follows is who we /you are this is the ‘Kingdom of heaven
within’ this the spirit of the Great Source of Life.
However
I was told by Sensei and Sifu that this is but a stage. There was a Zen Master
who was asked ‘What does enlightenment (O Satori) feel like? Like a dead log'. I have had a brief encounters with this; the mind seems quiet, even, hardly a
thought, sharp, wise and all alert as like a keen potential and my body seems
at ease. So it is beyond the beyond.
One
feels alive and aware without being aware of being aware, an empty dynamic, a
clear windscreen and no hankering for peace, grace and the inner smile and one is
free. Some hanker after bliss and get
stuck in it and after a while the ego can manufacture the ‘feel’. Beyond the cognition of awareness is the dead
log, or growing like a tree, being in being and who is going to attempt to
define this, I have gone astray already.
SHACK
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