05-16-2018, 10:59 AM
Quo on Nov. 28th, 2009 Wrote:...Consequently, the river of grief, the river of rage, all rivers whatsoever of purified emotion**, lead at last into the ocean of bliss, which is the steady state of infinite love.
I think one problem with comprehending this idea is the 3D tendency to polarize everything into duality. We think "bliss" is happiness and smiles and all things good, which puts "bliss" on the side of those things, as opposed to sadness and grief. Bliss, semantically, lines up with one side of the equation only.
It would be helpful to redefine "bliss" in one's mind. Or use another word. Like the word, "God," there is too much connotation to override when using it. Additionally, the word "love" is likewise misused here (in this world) because it rarely moves beyond conditional.
I speculate, from conjecture and from some little experience, that this "bliss" is nothing like happiness, though happiness is included in it. It is more akin to a fullness, richness and all-pervasive vibrating with something so much larger and encompassing than what we normally feel in this world. And here, words fail to sufficiently represent the idea.