8th weekly thought:

Bliss and Joy of Life

Religions deal with happiness; they all are in this world only for to show us a way to and – more than this - a way of happiness.
Why then many religious persons are so unhappy? Why then religions are so often the source of unhappiness?
Why then so many persons are unhappy? Why then we are so often unhappy?
The answer is simple! Happiness exists in the Here and Now only ... happiness never is in future!!!
As little children most of us were realy happy; we enjoid every moment and we were a source of happiness for our families and all the others around us. - So living happily can't be something we have to learn! It is nothing for what we need rules, technics, special things, knowledge or whatever!!! Living happily is something that we do out of ourselves as long as we don't have others concepts or aims in mind!
https://www.akasho.org/happiness​
Bliss is something that just happens to us suddenly and unprepared. It is a moment of absolute oneness combined with a deep knowing that everything is good and right and a feeling of infinite gratitude and joy. The moment our ego turns on - even just to show or tell someone else, for example - it is gone. What remains is the knowledge of the truth of this experience for our whole life.
Joy of life comes from switching off our judging ego and accepting and welcoming ourselves and life as we are or as it is.The ego is important for us to be able to distinguish between what suits us and what does not. If we allow the ego to rape us and life with concepts of „right and wrong“, it becomes a destroyer and creates all the suffering it claims to protect us from.
https://www.akasho.org/weekly-thoughts