Saturday 6:00 p.m.
Contentment. There's just so much bliss anyway. You're immersed in the wonderful bliss and then it starts to seem that everything is happening the way it should be happening, and that everything is going to alright in the end. This makes you feel contentment in the time you are in because you have a certain certainty of wellbeing. But it doesn't feel like just wellbeing in moi. Of course, if you don't get the bliss and won't ever get it, life probably looks pretty horrible if you dared to look hard enough. Well, that's not my fault.
So the heat has slowly dissipated from the universe and there is just a load of old photons left maybe, and they're heading towards absolute zero where nothing happens, and time stops going forward.
Or that's the way it looks as if it's happening. What about the bliss? Will the bliss still be there? This is very hard to say, but I do know that the bliss is there just now and it doesn't seem to be a reason for that in evolutionary terms. It doesn't give you an advantage, not in that way. But it seems to involve feelings and you'd think these might not exist outside the human body, but they don't exist in any human body the too dumb to meditate are every going to be aware of. It sometimes is not quite in the body and not quite out of it, is the bliss.
But if you can imagine the end of the universe with time no longer going forwards, maybe that's what the end result of calming meditations are like, except you'd have to wallop in a great big dose of the bliss, and when some other feelings arise, they are wonderful.
If it's wonderful, it's good, Jack! If it's wonderful, how can it be bad?
6 comments:
I say!
I expect that you will already have read, in the March 2011 issue of the Wisden Cricketer, page 100-101 in an article by Justin Langer, how "Batting is a form of meditation".
Langer writes that when he was dropped from the side in 1993 he started meditation. "When you recognise that you have all these thoughts coming through your mind and you are not concentrating on your breathing you just come back to it. It's exactly the same with batting. You might be thinking about your grip, that innings last week or being on a hundred when you have only five...Batting is a form of meditation."
We, I say! How right!
MM III
Mingin'! Oh really? Hotboy
I say!
A reason why batsmen tap their bats on the ground when taking guard is obviously because not only are they at the same time inwardly meditating (as per my previous comment) but also practising the ancient art of Tapping Therapy.
No wonder cricket is such a brilliant game.
MM III
The opening paragraph actually makes meditation look pleasurable. Why didn't you say that before? You used to give the impression that it was about endurance, terminology, gurus and cramped legs. You wacky jocks have to make everything so Calvinistic.
I say Rob!
I suspect that the pleasure part only comes after many years of endurance, terminology, gurus and cramped legs, flatulence, abstention, etc. By that time you've gone doolally anyway, and can't tell the difference.
No. The obvious true path to true bliss is to open the batting. There's also more maths involved in cricket than meditation.
MM III
Mingin'! and Albert? I'm too blissed out right now to tell you about the bliss! Hotboy
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