My favorite spiritual wisdom often describes something indescribable, using lovely poetry, all of which kind of point in the direction of emptiness and bliss and fulfillment and finding a true authority inside of you that is inter-connected with all things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Intellectual approaches often lead to a similar emptiness and bliss. Like Wittgenstein\u2019s philosophy which gets you up to the roof and then takes the ladder away. It sort of leads you along and then all of a sudden, as if suddenly presented a Zen koan or something, it just opens up and your see truth from dangerous heights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Either way we must drop down into that bliss or emptiness with either faith or courage, where the gifts you seek arrive as if, thirsty, you have just come upon a fresh spring coming out of the ground, or after a long journey you\u2019ve finally returned home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It takes a great deal of focus and concentration to follow what some of the masters are saying. The emptiness and the bliss that arise are akin to seriously listening to music or doing anything that takes a certain kind of concentration; the kind of focus of enjoying a whole train of thought and suddenly realizing that you’re actually no longer paying attention to what you started concentrating on. Those thoughts are delightful, and so is the music or the subject at hand which you must go back to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there is a gap between the two, an emptiness where you experience a different pleasure – bliss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I love those moments when my mind has been wandering. What genius is saying – in poetry, music, philosophy, or all art and science – builds up and suddenly what they say is like, oh yeah, and you experience it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It can happen over and over, and you have to go back, after wandering for a bit, to pick up the train of thought – either theirs or yours – and eventually the emptiness and bliss between wins our becomes a default state of mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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