I started meditating over twenty five years ago, and since then I've been telling anyone who cared to listen about the wonderments occurring from meditation, and nobody, almost nobody I know, meditates. So I'm not writing this blog to convince anyone about meditation. More people read poetry than want to meditate. That's just the way it is. You have to be really lucky to want to meditate. At least, that's what I think.
Several of my novels and plays were very much influenced by Buddhism and meditation and this blog is a companion blog to http://johnmckenzie.blogspot.com/, so that if anyone who read those books was interested ... I also want to a quiet space to ruminate about meditation and such like. If you want to connect with me over matters arising in this blog, there are a lot of ways you can do that without using the comments section.
If you were a religious person and believed in things, you might say you were meditating to get finally off the wheel of life, to get out of this repeated round of existences, all marked by suffering, and experience nirvana. You might say that.
If you didn't really believe in anything, you might say that you meditated to help you with all the stresses, etc., accumulating day in and day out. Meditation is a big help for these things, and should lower your blood pressure, help improve your concentration, and whatnot.
Nobody ever asks me about meditation. Sometimes I tell folk though that they should get into meditation to experience the bliss, or to get access to the bliss. This is not why I meditate, and I did not know there was bliss to be had when I started meditating, but getting access to some layer of mind where bliss resides, even if the access to this layer is somewhat haphazard, is a wonderment.
You can make your own bliss. You do not have to have outside stimulation for this. It's not something that happens from outside your mind and body that makes you feel blissful. It seems to be that the bliss naturally arises when you meditate sufficiently. It seems to be a part of your mind. It seems to be part of the process of uncovering your mind, and I don't think it is avoidable if you meditate enough.
When you are stuck with the western view of anatomy, you don't have explanations for what happens to you in meditation. You may wish to seek other explanations of what we are composed of. At the end of the day, these other explanations might not be of much use to you, but if you want to see one from yoga, it's here
If you hardly know anyone who meditates, but you are finding yourself occasionally in very blissful situations, it's a comfort when you see some people even talking about bliss, far less talking about us human beings being composed of five sheaths, the bliss sheath being one of them..
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