What is bliss?

[emil1234]

this will be an intuitive writing of recent discoveries / experiences of mine.

the last years ive been extremely dragged towards eating food. an extreme craving for food. that being said, i eat only 3 times per day very conssitently, and i maintain an extremely healthy diet, consisting mainly of fruits and vegetables.

yet the 3 meals are the highlight of my day. however when i eat my breakfirst, i only have lunch in mind. when i eat lunch, i have dinner in mind. its an eternal circle of craving, and i eat like an animal when im finally at it, filling myself without any break.

recently ive felt the intuition to slow down and eat more mindfully. I take a piece of food, chew it, swallow, and wait for however long it takes for my body to require more. i feel mindfully into the sensations and urges in my body. i might wait everything between 15 seconds to 2 minutes between every bite.

what i've discovered is that what im craving when im stuffing myself with food, is not the actual food, nor the physical sensations and pleasure that comes from eating it. 

observing myself, my reactions and the food mindfully, i experience what i can only describe as an existential, profound non physical bliss

it is bliss that compells me to eat it. it is bliss that i require, not the taste or anything else. Experiencing the bliss right beneath the physical sensations, the food in my mouth becomes trivial and insignifcant, yet its become more rich and beautiful than any piece of food i've ever had.

This bliss is not exclusive to the food. It is not exclusive to anything. it is right below everything. its in music. its in my computer. its in my eyes. my ears. my body. and yet it is not confined to it.

It is unlike anything ive ever experienced. it cannot be confined. it cannot be located. it is absolutley unbounded, omnipresent, yet nowhere at all. and yet it is absolutley there, and its always been there. a constant.

It is distinctly different from physical bliss sensations,since I experience those in my body simultaneously through eating the food. Physical bliss is arising and passing, fluctuating, non constant. This non physical bliss is non fluctuating, constant, non arising and non passing. it is however uncovered and once again covered by a shroud of physicality

only, it is clouded by a physical shroud of what the mind thinks it requires.

Is this brahman? God? I can only feel that this is a glipmse of the divine. just right beneath everything, there exists unbounded, unconditional bliss. and it is absolutley all-pervasive.

alan watts comes to mind: "there is a universe, for the simple reason that it is ecstatic"

Edited Tuesday at 06:10 PM by emil1234

[Someone here]

Seems like legit glimpse of  the Ox.  But keep going deeper . Try water fasting or Ramadan dry fasting for a week. You will be shocked how little we humans actually need food . We use food mostly not because we need it or hungry but to distract ourselves from the present moment. 

Some Yogis are so badass and advanced that they are breatharian. They have transcended the need for food and they survive on light and air alone . 

[gettoefl]

Bliss is, when ego isn't.

What i am

is what mind blocks

thinking it knows better.

Awareness of true self indeed activates this.

Sat-chit-ananda is the real me.

[emil1234]

3 hours ago, Someone here said:

We use food mostly not because we need it or hungry but to distract ourselves from the present moment. 

 

this is definetely how i felt. but apperantly it can also be a gateway to the divine

[Schizophonia]

Doing what I truly enjoy doing.
It's automatically amplified by contrast, so to return to your food example, it's best for me to eat only once a day, because it amplifies the pleasure of eating.

Edited Tuesday at 06:26 PM by Schizophonia

[Hojo]

I think when the false self dissapears your soul touch reality and your soul feels really good when it happens. So the bliss body is God and the good feeling comes when you touch it.

Edited Tuesday at 07:20 PM by Hojo