Bliss!

If you accept that human beings are more or less the same; made of the same stuff, composed of similar mental aspects, etc., then if they were to do more or less the same things, you'd expect more or less the same results. If you trained to run fast, you might never win a race, but you will almost certainly end up running faster than you were. We have a lot in common, you and I.

What I'm interested in is not about being holy, or even being good, it's about what happens when you do stuff. What results are experienced?

You have to start by getting yourself into a comfortable position and repeating mumbo jumbo to yourself. At least, that's what I did. After doing that for about ten minutes a day for a week, once I felt as if I was in an unusual mental space, and noted it, and that mental space disappeared immediately. You might not get back to that space for some time, but at least you've been there once. This is your little fish. It's on the end of your fishing line.

So you start to fish and the little fish sometimes comes closer to your normal consciousness, and quite often moves away, but the more you fish, the closer it seems to come.

In the course of time, you may begin to feel odd movements inside you body as you sit. Eventually, these odd movements, which are like a kind of massage, fill out into something that feels like an inner and outer envelope attached to your body, or being revealed by your mind in your body through meditating over a long period.

You should be able to feel this arising and be able to sink into bliss almost as soon as you start meditating, but probably not until you've been practising for several years. The qualities you might associate with the bliss change of course. There are all kinds of flavours and forces involved. But always through the years of meditations piling up, the bliss seems to get stronger and stronger.

What do this tell me so far? Well, not very much, but it does prove to me that there is in our human mind a vast great ocean of bliss, which can be accessed by sticking with some very simple, not to say rudimentary, methods.

When you chip chip chip down through your mind by concentrating on a sound, you eventually come upon the bliss, or the bliss develops somehow by you doing this. Isn't that a wonderment! If not, it's at least interesting.

Encountering huge volumes of bliss, of course, can't help but make you realise you knew even less than you thought you knew when you started out!!