The way I see it, the 'answer' (result) one 'receives' (actualizes) is simply a 'reflection' of
whatever it is that one is 'seeking' at any given point - as in "Ask, and ye shall receive; seek, and ye shall find."
One may find/receive many things which make one 'happy', in the sense of 'happier' than one was before, but whether or not one
continues to be and so
remains joy-
fully 'happy' in the sense of being
maximally, or
totally, fulfilled
depends on whether or not what one asked for, i.e. sought, was/is
truly aligned with one's
real 'nature', ...
... which to me means the 'nature' of the 'Essence' of
Life, or
Being, Itself[/u], which 'nature' is the functional
spiritual 'embodiment' of the 'core' (or 'central')
purpose of
all Creativity/Creation (not just the vagaries of personal) Being/Existence.
Based on said logic, I think thinking and feeling and believing that the 'central'
purpose, hence the
maximal fulfillment, of the Essence of Life/Creativity/Creation,
the Process of Being-n-Becoming is to experience total/complete/everlasting "Bliss" is oxymoronic. Why? Because
the Source (of Life) could just as well just as well have actualized
that by simply 'staying in bed' (so to speak) and continuing to 'dream'
whatever 'it' wanted to, i.e. just 'sucking its thumb' (so to speak).
Followers of Eastern as well as Western philosophies which buy into the idea and so 'project' that the 'core' (central/primary) nature, hence
most real motive or purpose, of Life is to 'end' (the possibility of experiencing) 'suffering' and just
eternally experience 'bliss' forever thereafter are therefore IMO 'doomed'
to be disillusioned, eventually at least, in said regard - according to
my projections, that is, which projections derive from extrapolations of both
my personal experiences and from
my observations of kittens, puppies, children, etc. - "Except ye ... become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." blah-de-blah.
I hereby share my 'belief' (based on extensive personal observation and consideration) that the
real motive/purpose which gives 'rise' to Life/Creativity/Creation is to
is to maximally express and thereby experience Love and Joy in relationship to and with others. I think that the pursuit of personally experienced "bliss" as a
primary goal (especially the kind aimed for in 'i'solation) pretty much ensures that one will miss the boat in this relationship-to-and-with-others regard.
Relationally (lovingly and joyfully)
participating
with others in a forum such as this, even if it involves 'extolling' personally 'separate' experiences of "bliss", is a
good start.
I strongly disagree with the statement made earlier that: "From what I have experienced, reality itself is absolutely neutral. It does not judge between happiness and sadness, or good and bad." In my view, Love and Joy are are
fundamental spiritual realities which are
anything but 'neutral'. Also to Love and Joyfully celebrate Life/existence/relationship
in relation to and with others one
must distinguish between happiness and sadness, as well as between what is good (i.e. better) and bad (i.e. worse), and make 'wise' choices in said regards, in terms of what serves to augment or debase the ongoing experience of Life and Joy
in relationship to and with others.
To promote more thoughtful consideration of the above proposition, I submit the following excerpt from a chapter I just finished writing which places it in human-historical context:
Quote:
It has ... struck me that developments in the field of modern computer systems may provide us with an even more illustrative model for the universally creative, feedback-loop based interfusion of the Essence of Creativity (i.e. 'the Father') and the Life of every individual and amalgamated aspect of Its expression. To explore this proposition, imagine if you will that the main aim or goal of said Essence’s ‘program’ – the primary motive (i.e. ‘desire’) ensconced in its ‘source code’ – is to maximally express and thereby experience Love and Joy, to Joyfully express and experience Love and Lovingly express and experience Joy to the greatest possible degree in every possible way, or something like that.
Next, to picture the activity of the Living Entity of our Creation (i.e. of ‘the Son’), imagine a universe-sized network made up of an infinite array of banks upon banks of computers matrixially web-strung together by way of both parallel and series connections, all simultaneously, individually and together, multi-processing the above referenced Love and Joy ‘program’, with each processor and every amalgamation thereof functionally outputting the ‘solution’ it ‘calculates’ will most probably yield the greatest possible Love and Joy ‘result’ in its case (as far as it can prognostically project, that is), which ‘solution’ then operationally functions as input in relation of any and all associated processors to whatever extent they ‘calculate’ it to be relevant to their own Love and Joy process, such that said output-n-input data-packet sequences co-actively ripple and reverberate around the network, sparking Love and Joy focused perceptions and decisions (i.e. experiences and expressions) which conjointly determine what takes place here, there and everywhere in ‘the body’ of said Entity over the course of time."
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Pursuing 'happiness', 'bliss', whatever
without taking the
reality of such
context in the account will at best yield
temporary result in said regards, I would suggest.
For anyone interested, the full text of the chapter from which the above excerpt was taken is available as a pdf file from the 'Articles' page of my website. It is titled, "What Jesus
Really Meant - Ch.1"
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