The very nature of life is bliss itself. In our least excited state, there beneath the thoughts, the feelings, the opinions, the ideas, the sensations of the body – all these things we generally know as ‘self’ – is a place of pure bliss, a place of pure Being. This place is the truth of what we are, the truth of our very makeup; yet if we do not know to look for it, we never will find it.
We are taught by our schools, our parents, our churches and temples, that the ‘more’ that man naturally wants is found outside of the self. If I can just get enough money/power/safety/love, then I will be happy. If I think this whole thing through just one more time, then I will figure it out, and then I will be happy.
From the great spiritual teachers we learn that happiness can only be found within. There is no amount of anything ‘out there’ that can bring us to happiness for more than a moment. Romance will fade, the financial windfall of today becomes the not-quite-enough of next year. Everything is changing, always.
Truth is that which never changes; and where we find the truth of our very Being is within. In meditation we go within, transcending all these changing values and settling into the most-subtle experience of Self. And the nature of Self is bliss. Sat-chid-ananda. Existence/consciousness/bliss is the very material of life. It’s there, always. We just need to look in the right direction.
