It is not a titillation produced by things it is a state of peace, of silence, a meditative state. It is not dependent on circumstances it is your own. It has nothing to do with the other it is inner. It is different, totally different from pleasure, happiness. The observed is the observer, the experienced is the experiencer, the knower is the known.
You are not an observer of this bliss, you are the bliss itself there is no observer separate from it. There is nobody to experience it, there is nobody to observe it. And that explosion is tremendous joy, it is bliss. The ego has to go, in all its forms, and then the authentic reality explodes.The thorns on the rose bush are not against the rose flowers they are guards, protectors. Never be deceived by the appearances, because the darkest night is nothing but the womb for the dawn and the saddest moment can become a stepping stone towards joy. Even if it is sometimes disguised as a curse. He goes on pouring his blessings into existence. He radiates truth, he radiates God, but so silently… without any declaration. He is a giver: he gives delight, he gives joy, he gives beauty, he gives truth. The man of Zen is always overflowing with joy.You are not only a blessing to yourself, you become a blessing to everybody else you become a blessing to existence itself. You become compassion, love, joy it starts overflowing you. When you know you are part of the whole there is no anxiety left, no anguish possible, and the energy involved in anxiety, in anguish, is released.Once the seed has dropped its protection, is surrendered into the soil, the shell has died, only then the sprout is born. In fact, sadness is like the shell that surrounds the seed it is protective, it is not the enemy. Joy wells up when you have broken the ice of sadness that surrounds it. Joy arises only when sadness disappears out of meditation there is no other way. And then bliss blooms, if you are relaxed something like a lotus opens up in your heart. Your joy is not in gaining something out of it, your joy is in the very doing of it. People may understand it, may not understand it. But is is a totally different kind of creativity, not something forced… something that simply happens, flows out of you. Then each moment becomes a joy and each moment becomes creative. A sannyasin has to live in deep relaxation, neither worried by the past nor concerned for the future.To find the master is a blessing, and to dissolve oneself into the master is the most delicious experience experience of freedom and joy, a kind of unburdening of all the unnecessary load, an experience of lightness and laughter….Immediately withdraw! That withdrawal I call sannyas. And if you are living in misery, remember and find out on what lies you have based your life. If you live in lies, you will live in misery. Remember, let this be the criterion: whatsoever brings joy and bliss and benediction is true - because bliss is God’s nature.You have to dig into your sorrowful states and you will find a wellspring of joy. Bliss has to be found deep, hidden behind the sorrow itself. Bliss has not to be found outside, against sorrow. In that evaporation of sorrow is joy, is bliss. If a person can go into his sorrow deeply he will find all sorrow has evaporated.If you can see sleep as a great rest and relaxation in the evening, what else do you want? If you can feel the joy in the morning, if you can feel the joy of being alive, every breath becomes a blessing, is a blessing.
Here life comes in all its colors - the whole rainbow. There is no greater beauty, no greater grace, no greater blessing than to be a buddha. There is no greater joy in existence than to be a buddha.If people are joyous, if they feel life as a blessing, they will not commit violence because that is simply a disturbance of their own joy and of the joy of the other person.It is beyond human hands… it is beyond human reach. When you are moving in the direction of joy, one day you will suddenly see a dove descending on you - that is bliss. One has to remain joyful, one has to learn the ways of joy, and one has to go on moving in the direction of joy as much as possible.This existence is yours and this moment is a gift - don’t let it go to waste. Live it with as much joy as possible, with as much love as possible, with no fear, no guilt. Just live the moment with intensity and totality.