A Moment Of Pure Happiness

[Cammy]

"Happiness = 1/ego." Having heard Leo talk about this before I want to ask others if they remember a moment  in their lives when they experienced pure happiness (ego = 0) and why they think it happened?

[Capethaz]

@Cammy For me it happened after doing Self-Enquiry a year ago, it was like 15 seconds maybe more, but still best moment of my life. I was literally shaking and crying after. But all this experiences pass and you have to do your laundry.

[aurum]

I have no idea if I've ever gotten to ego = 0 but I've definitely had some intense experiences.

For instance, I can remember the first time I got REALLY PRESENT after doing meditation for awhile. It was like the first time I'd ever actually been happy. I walked around for like 2 hours in this blissed out state, really crazy.

Because ego can only survive in mental fairy tale land, presence is like a reduction in ego. You're not really "thinking", you're kind of just aware. And so you experience what IS when you don't place labels or judgments or any kind.

[FindingPeace]

I've never had complete 'egoless'  moments but I have had plenty of what I call peak experiences during which my ego has been largely 'irrelevent' and I've felt only pure peace, bliss, joy of the moment. A sense of beauty of the moment I guess. These experiences usually happened during moments where I was expecting nothing from the moment, and I was in complete acceptance of the moment. I often happens when I out in nature, There's a certain sense of 'awe' that accompanies it too. Everything about the 'story' of my life would become like a distant dream and in that moment, there was no story, no fears or worries, no 'life' as such.

It's a beautiful thing.