Is Bliss Compatible with Everyday Life?
I have recently experienced some amazingly blissful moments.
Some of these extend for an hour or more and during this time I feel no sense
of urgency to do anything. I just want to experience absolute well-being while
breathing in deeply. But THEN I decide to get in my car and drive while still
in that blissful state and this doesn’t seem to work. I can’t attend to the
major functions of coordinating and watching for all the warning lights,
traffic patterns and the need to “get somewhere.” So I am asking the question “Is
bliss compatible with everyday life? Because if it’s not I have to plan
safeguards when I get carried into bliss and if it is then I would like to
spend more time in bliss.
I think “bliss” presupposes that there is
nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be done but experience the moment. So
how is the state of bliss different from the reality of everyday life? Everyday
life has so many components and complexities that there is no comparison to
that state where I am applying for health insurance, or paying my online phone
bill ( grrrrr) and the blissful state where I see everything around me as
perfect, beautiful, and eternal. Is it a worthy endeavor to detach from reality
long enough to experience bliss?” And is it safe to leave the rational left
brain area to do so?
In my estimation of what is worth pursuing, I find that
moments of complete happiness are rare in life and that they are very healing
and sustaining. Thoughts of that blissful state may sustain me through the next
life challenge such as a job change or an illness. It may even provide a
roadmap for me to return to the state of bliss again so I may more easily find
it no matter what is going on in my life.
To the second question, I would say it’s safe to become
blissful if you don’t drive or work machinery or technology. You can still
operate your pc but you will not enter bliss while doing so. (My opinion is
that technology is the anathema of bliss). Is it safe to disconnect from life
long enough to entertain that feeling of total well-being and a knowing at
least for the moment that life is perfect? I think it is better to experience
these feelings than to experience almost anything else (except perhaps deep love).
I can’t prescribe for everyone how to approach bliss. All I know is that it’s
worth it to me to be there, to visit that state of perfect calm and peace and I
would like to go there often even if it means I don’t get anywhere that day or
learn what amazing events happened on AOL while I was experiencing that
sensation of ultimate well-being.
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