Is there a State of Everlasting Bliss?

[Dalek Prime]

It does if you are the one. Nobody else gives a shit, because they are satisfied customers. Oh, let me throw a party for the rest of you happy customers.

Death is life's reward.

So, non-existence is existence's reward. Could've skipped the mid bit.

[Lacewing]

What I would really like to hear, if you are willing/able, is how your realizations affect/change your own actual life? How do you use them to improve your experience? How do you anticipate that other people can use such realizations to affect/change their lives?

We cannot change the world (so forget that) we can only change our self.

How we feel on the inside, will reflect outside. (if everyone is doing same, where is the problem?)

By this standard nothing actually changes, except we stop reacting to what happens and instead we accept what happens unconditionally.

Before enlightenment chop wood carry water, after enlightenment chop wood carry water, but the difference now is that after enlightenment the wood chopping and the water carrying is a sweet activity...not a drudge to be avoided. It's about dropping all accumulated mental baggage including the sense of separate 'me' and living effortlessly free and doing what comes naturally.

You conveniently left off my last question: "Can you describe this and respond to my questions without the focus being on expressing "how it is"?"

So, it appears the answer is that you're unable to do anything other than pronounce "HOW IT IS"?? That just seems like way too much self-gratifying ego is involved. No offense intended, DAM, but I'm going to speak very honestly and passionately here. If you are on this Earth, living a life in flesh and blood, then why not fucking CONNECT with it and stop acting so beyond it all? I don't think that enlightenment IGNORES and is incapable of connecting with ALL that manifests. If THIS life/experience/vibration/whatever were not worth engaging with and discussing, you wouldn't be here. You are using this platform to TALK AT people. Why? Why do YOU NEED that? And why are you seemingly "on this Earth living a life" like the rest of us, but you refuse to talk about THAT? Why is it so imperative that you continually talk "beyond" it to provide "ultimate answers"?

[thedoc]

It does if you are the one. Nobody else gives a shit, because they are satisfied customers. Oh, let me throw a party for the rest of you happy customers.

Death is life's reward.

No, death and birth are just the end points, it's the fun stuff in the middle that make life interesting,and if you don't find life interesting, you've got your head stuck somewhere.

[Dontaskme]

It does if you are the one. Nobody else gives a shit, because they are satisfied customers. Oh, let me throw a party for the rest of you happy customers.

Death is life's reward.

No, death and birth are just the end points, it's the fun stuff in the middle that make life interesting,and if you don't find life interesting, you've got your head stuck somewhere.

No one lives life.

[Dalek Prime]

Death is life's reward.

No, death and birth are just the end points, it's the fun stuff in the middle that make life interesting,and if you don't find life interesting, you've got your head stuck somewhere.

No one lives life.

If only...

[Walker]

There have been times when I've felt that everyone/thing has the same mind, just that "each portion" is shaped by morphology and circumstance. So I'm also inclined to think that we are all one life. However, we are not only one, but also separate. We are all part of larger things, we are each a thing in itself (the self), and we are each also a collection of smaller things. The self is not the whole story, but a part of it.

We are all waves in the ocean, momentarily distinguished but never apart.

[Greta]

There have been times when I've felt that everyone/thing has the same mind, just that "each portion" is shaped by morphology and circumstance. So I'm also inclined to think that we are all one life. However, we are not only one, but also separate. We are all part of larger things, we are each a thing in itself (the self), and we are each also a collection of smaller things. The self is not the whole story, but a part of it.

We are all waves in the ocean, momentarily distinguished but never apart.

Heh, I think the word "momentarily" rather downplays the amount of stuff that can happen in a lifetime. They say that just one minute during an earthquake feels it will never end.

[Walker]

Beingness: so endless looking forward, so brief looking back.

[Dontaskme]

Beingness: so endless looking forward, so brief looking back.

Beginninglessness is endless looking forward.

[Dalek Prime]

Beingness: so endless looking forward, so brief looking back.

Beginninglessness is endless looking forward.

Nice. (Where did you access that emoticon, btw?)

[Dontaskme]

Beingness: so endless looking forward, so brief looking back.

Beginninglessness is endless looking forward.

Nice. (Where did you access that emoticon, btw?)

I nicked it off Walkers post.

[Walker]

(Where did you access that emoticon, btw?)

That’s a good question!

Here's one that might have a use, though it distracts from content.

[Dalek Prime]

(Where did you access that emoticon, btw?)

That’s a good question!

Here's one that might have a use, though it distracts from content.

Not bad. Is there one with heat ray vision, Superman style? I want to disintegrate people at a glance.

[Walker]

Such power might fall into the wrong hands, or plunger.

[Dalek Prime]

No!
Love hurts

LOVE cannot hurt.

Love hurts only in the context that you think it is something to get..and when you don't get it, that hurts.

In life, everything is thriving because of love... and at the same time falling apart because of love.

But LOVE is not a commodity or a weapon to be used for profit and gain, this love is egocentric behaviour, (the misery self)

Thinking you don't have love and that it is something to get is born of fear separation and lack.

That is a lie.

You are LOVE..everything is love.

If people choose to be spiteful mean and nasty to others, they are sidestepping the road toward natural joy and bliss of ordinary life.

Just try loving every thing for what they are, no matter who they are, or what they've said or done, and just see how good you'll feel.

When we don't love others, it's because we don't love ourself.

It's not rocket science. it's the number 1 rule of love, because love is all there is, everything else is a lie.

LOVE does not demand. LOVE allows.

Purely romantic notions with no basis in reality.