Lovely explanation Collette, As a daily watcher of Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira and many more...I continue along the spiritual pathless path hoping that I too can feel what you and others describe. For the time being I will continue my journey of what seems like having one foot on the body life path and one foot on the spiritual enquiry path...I ll end up doing the splits soon ha ha! Enjoy your journey home everyone ❣️
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Thank you for your answer, Collette , thank you because i could feel how it is to be like this, through it. Many other materials bring more mental activity, i dont know why, as if it is needed an action. Your honesty in this answer with all in it shows me that that movement backward in seeing it is also a movement backward in feeling in the chest., isnt it?
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Where are you that you have beautiful weather. Here in Canada, it still cold. Thank you for your posts. I only listen to you. God bless
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Collette Barnes Whiteman
The underlying joy of simply being.
Q. Thank you for the video. Are you always in a blissful state or do you also experience other emotions such as anger, frustration or sadness?
A. I would say bliss is always available, it's our natural state. It just seems to be obscured by mental activity based in resistance to what's happening.
Bliss feels like a quiet love that can blossom at times into pure joy and then settle back down in underlying contentment. It's not conditional, so it's not dependent on outside circumstances. It's a baseline of undulating joy.
There might be a momentary contraction appear, but it very quickly dissipates, leaving no residual after effects. I haven't noticed any anger or sadness. I have twice noticed a flat feeling and because it was quite different, I could see the mind wanted to create a story around it but I didn't go there and it the experience dissipated by itself.
I haven't lost a loved one since the recognition of the truth of simply being. So I can't speak how that would be, but my life circumstances have been up and down like everyone', but it's very different now I don't suffer them, I can see what we fundamentally are is totally free from the surface potential to suffer. Thanks for the question I enjoyed feeling into that. 🙏🏼💗
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