Categories: Teacher Experiences & Reflections
Joy-Bliss
By: Steve Ridley
The Center, Heart or Essence of us is (already, always) pure bliss.
Bliss cannot be ‘created’ through any method or discipline. When we engage in “spiritual practices,” we are endeavoring to resolve and clear restricting tendencies from the ever transitioning field of mind-and-body. Such efforts may result in an improved mind-body condition and capacity for accommodating and reflecting our innate bliss, to whatever degree.
(I think it is important for people to continue to be reminded that cause-effect thinking is not bliss producing. Sometimes folks get this idea. Internal conditions allow bliss. Bliss can ‘arise’ while doing or not doing anything when the individual constitution-environment-condition favor it’s arising.)
Originally appeared in: March 1994
