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Feeling of Bliss

BlackFlagBlackFlag
edited March 2010 in Buddhism Basics
Before mediating, I was in a very good mood. After meditating though, I had an extremely wonderful experience. I was laying down on my bed, and I had just put on a Simon and Garfunkel record, and for some reason at that moment I felt more alive then I've ever felt before. What is this feeling that I'm describing? Has anyone felt anything similar?

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  • PietroPumokinPietroPumokin
    edited March 2010
    What is this feeling that I'm describing?
    buddha licking you. don't be afraid! haha ha ha HA
  • BlackFlagBlackFlag
    edited March 2010
    Pietro Pumokin wrote: »
    buddha licking you. don't be afraid! haha ha ha HA

    Haha. In all seriousness though, I feel like I've come a long way with my meditation. My goal was to become a happier person and although I'm not sure how long this feeling will last, it feels like this is a positive step.
  • skydancerskydancer Veteran
    edited March 2010
    BlackFlag wrote: »
    Haha. In all seriousness though, I feel like I've come a long way with my meditation. My goal was to become a happier person and although I'm not sure how long this feeling will last, it feels like this is a positive step.
    Enjoy the passing show. If you find yourself being kinder to others because of your experience you're on the right track.
  • BlackFlagBlackFlag
    edited March 2010
    sky dancer wrote: »
    Enjoy the passing show.

    Hmm. . .am I supposed to construe that as positive or negative?


    Edit: NM. I saw your edit.
  • PietroPumokinPietroPumokin
    edited March 2010
    just remember not to attach any expectations to future meditation. enjoy your feelings while they're there and put them to good use through wisdom and love, but make no big deal about them, and let them slide gracefully into memory and keep a positive mind.
  • BlackFlagBlackFlag
    edited March 2010
    Someone told me at the center I go to that this feeling is called 'No Seperation'. It's a very interesting concept, and it did fade away after a day or two, but it's still kinda with me, in a way.
  • FoibleFullFoibleFull Canada Veteran
    edited March 2010
    There's a quote from a book about the life of Buddha that says that Buddha knew that the bliss from meditation could not be the ultimate truth because it was impermanent ... it did not last.

    And my teacher (a buddhist monk born in Tibet) keeps on telling us that the states from meditation don't mean anything. But we are to keep on meditating, because the goal of meditation is not bliss, but training and disciplining the mind.

    Sounds so dull!
  • AnupassīAnupassī
    edited March 2010
    "The Buddha teaches us to keep laying down the extremes. This is the path of right practice, the path leading out of birth and becoming. On this path, there is neither pleasure nor pain, neither good nor evil. Alas, the mass of humans filled with desiring just strive for pleasure and always bypass the middle, missing the Path of the Excellent One, the path of the seeker of truth. Attached to birth and becoming, happiness and suffering, good and evil, the one who does not travel this Middle Path cannot become a wise one, cannot find liberation. Our Path is straight, the path of tranquility and pure awareness, calmed of both elation and sorrow. If your heart is like this, you can stop asking other people for guidance.

    You will see that when the heart / mind is unattached, it is abiding in its normal state. When it stirs from 'the normal because of various thoughts and feelings, the process of thought construction takes place, in which illusions are created. Learn to see through this process. When the mind has stirred from normal, it leads away from right practice to one of the extremes of indulgence or aversion, thereby creating more illusion, more thought construction. Good or bad only arises in your mind. If-you keep a watch on your mind, studying this one topic your whole life, I guarantee that you will never be bored."
    - Ajahn Chah

    (One day I'll get the hang of writing these myself.)
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