For a brief moment, this happiness occurred...

[tatsumaru]

So I decided to smoke a fattie today and I went on the balcony and stayed there for a while.
And as I was watching the birds and the trees, suddenly I felt like a little boy again. Like that first day of your first summer vacation.
I felt like as if problems couldn't exist. No past, no future, no vision, no struggling, no suffering, no fighting, no resistance,
just pure life - fresh and transparent.

And as I reflected on my life from that point of view, I realized how much rubbish we accumulate as we grow up.
I felt like modern living is to liberation what the standard American diet (SAD) is to health. Which is quite obvious of course. No revelations here...
And yet to experience the awareness of this fact is much more satisfying than simply rationalizing from observation.
This seems to trigger a feeling of what I can only describe as appreciation.

I thought about the Buddha describing the Tathagata, which is indestructible and eternally happy and so I wondered if what he's describing is in any way related to the way happiness felt to me when I was a kid.

So... for a brief moment today, this happiness occurred, and I felt like sharing.

[SOUL]

This post is so thumby....be it every day in every way.... simple.

[cetus]

@tatsumaru Yea it's so great to have that childhood experience of oneness again. What a shame that door so often closes with time. The memory of the perfection and connectedness and completeness with reality that I experienced as a a child is what started this spiritual journey for me. Listening to Nissargadatta today "Rays of the Absolute" and he said something that connected it all together for me. That everything is is one consciousness. And i thought, that's what I experience in my childhood. That experience of oneness is consciousness.