Bliss

I would like to try and explain the perception of enlightenment or of fulfilment. It can never be fully explained in words, images or art. It is similar to feelings. Nobody can understand an emotion until they have truly experienced it themselves. But even then, it is not quite like any other experience.

There is one state of mind however with which one could maybe start to comprehend what I am talking about. Everybody is bound to have this feeling a few times in their lives. It may happen at completely irrelevant times or come about with the most important event in your life. The feeling I am describing is that feeling of extraordinary bliss. A feeling of overflowing joy when everything seems alright and there is not a single worry or clouded thought in the world. In that moment you feel so free and weightless, so perfectly fulfilled that nothing could amplify the feeling of joy. Remember or picture this feeling. Feel it course through you again.

Now take the memory and mould it with your mind. Enlightenment, if it comes about suddenly, will initially feel similar as it is an awe inspiring experience. Suddenly everything seems to jump into the right frame and make complete sense. All things will lose the excess importance which every human being lays upon them. So there will be no worry shrouding your mind, no negative emotion pulling you down.

Can you still feel that memory of joy right now? Imagine it now, but more subdued, more as an undercurrent, more as a ever present drift below the surface directing you in the right direction.

Enlightenment is basically being worry free, you see the things as what they truly are, in their complete unimportance. For giving things importance just creates the possibility of taking them too seriously.

I can see some people shouting out now, asking where we would end up then, if we didn’t lay any importance on anything? But don’t mistake this feeling for nihilism with is negative approach to being. Being enlightened is about understanding everything’s place in the great whole of the universe and not merely in the context of our lives. It is primarily about the self. Being enlightened is much more than this as well. It is being free from the restraints of time; free from the cage the human mind sets on itself. There are so many aspects to feeling enlightenment; I will try to explain them gradually in later posts.

I do hope I could spark an idea of the incredible feeling that anybody can find! It is such a great experience that whoever truly knows it can not help but try and share this bliss.