"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are ~ if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time."
Joseph Campbell
Bliss is best described when you fall into the depths of enchantment. It is a heavenly experience of feeling enraptured and truly blessed. Needless to say, bliss had escaped me for the majority of my life.
While in attendance of a gathering to welcome a Tibetan Master, I felt safe in the crowd as I was flanked on both sides by long time friends. The reception began with mantras and chants, followed by meditations and visualizations. The energy in the room was over the top, and I felt as though I could reach the twilight zone with ease.
Apparently, the schedule had been interrupted by the monk running late. To fill this lapse of time, additional chanting and euphoric exercises were shared by the attending group. Never, had I ever felt quite so buoyant.
Grinning ear to ear, I embraced friends on either side of me. The once strangers in front of me and behind me were now glowing beings of radiant light. We hugged within this seventh heaven. The gathering place was thick with joy.
The guru finally arrived, and his delightful message captured us all. Each of us were invited, one by one, to approach him for an individual blessing. It felt like a gift to be in his presence.
When I think back to this day spent with trusted friends, I immediately recapture the spectrum of emotions experienced during the morning wait. It remains to be a most exceptional time where I was physically pure light, emotionally nothing but joy, and spiritually flying. This experience was bliss.
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