During the final stages of dying, says S.R., "there arises a great experience of bliss, as all the thought states resulting from desire...cease to function." Notice the connection between absence of desire and bliss. He doesn't say that pain ceases and bliss ensues. He makes no mention of fear. Once the weight of desire is off it, bliss will of itself buoy to the surface. I notice more and more how haunted people are, how harried by incessant restlessness and discontent. It's painful to watch. Bliss is absence of all that tugging and pulling, all the depletion of misdirected energies. Bliss is clear and still. Every day I practice recognition of this clarity. When I am still and in it and of it, everything simply is, and the "am" in which they arise disappears like darkness at sunrise.
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