The Experience of Infinite Joy in Meditation

"In meditation, when you immerse your attention
into the peace that is the essence of this moment,
you find that it is limitless.

It is completely formless
and this formless peace goes on forever.

The emptiness is so vast, so fulfilling,
there is no end to exploring it.

And as your attention deepens,
you go higher into peace and the peace becomes joy.
The energy rises up to the higher energy centers
in your body and as it goes up, the feeling of joy increases.

Awareness becomes very intoxicating.

The flow of energy that moves up and sometimes
out of the top of your head is indescribable bliss.

It's unfathomable joy! Infinite joy!

And when you come out of that joy a little bit,
you find everything is this joy. You feel joy in everything.

The infinite joy that is the essence of everything
cannot contain itself. It must burst open and manifest
into billions of forms.

And so every form is made of bliss.

You can be walking in the woods and you can't imagine anything more fulfilling, more blissful than that walking.

You could just be sitting, not meditating, just sitting in your backyard and feel one with everything around you; lost in complete fulfillment.

But many people seem to settle for the words. Settle for some understanding of it, some idea of it. Some little clever saying that makes your ego smile as you pass by in search for the next tidbit of knowledge.

It's like driving all the way to the ocean and not getting out of the car. Not feeling the sand on your bare feet, not feeling your body swaying in the salt water waves. Just sitting in your air conditioned car with the windows up listening to talk-back radio.

That's what dead people do!

Infinite joy is free of all words, understanding, ideas & beliefs.

So to realize this joy, you not only have to do the spiritual work, you also have to get really get naked. You have to strip away all of your ideas and perceptions and dissolve into this moment full on.

You can't have an intellectual consideration about how it fits in with what you know
and who you think you are. You have to give it all up and dive into this moment.

It's so hard to even make any sense in this joy, because it is senseless; limitless. There is no comprehending it. Love replaces comprehension.

Yet the ego mind is always trying to put it into a box; something it can define and know and carry around like a lucky charm. But how do you bottle up limitless joy?

You have to let everything dismantle into nothingness. That is the starting point.

And as your attention rests in peace, it becomes bliss and when you are completely absorbed in bliss, then you realize infinite joy. You will become joy itself.

Much love,

Kip"