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Originally Posted by Antarananda Through this process of witnessing, one achieves a state of equanimity, and that is what I call joy, or bliss. This bliss is the underlying reality no matter what dominant emotion surfaces in our consciousness; the state of true joy which is unshakeable, and the more I learn to remain connected with this "gap" between rising thoughts and emotions and impulses to react in my mind, the less I find myself swinging unconsciously between happiness and sadness. |
That pretty much sums it up of how I experience it.
Over a period of about 3-4 years, the swings between happiness and unhappiness have lessened, almost to a point now where I would say that nothing really makes me happy or unhappy anymore; that is, there is very little energy behind the polarity movements in my emotional state, and an almost continuous feeling of deep peace in the background.
I would even say, however strange it may sound, that it is more conducive to my inner peace now when so-called bad things happen than when good things happen. When something breaks or goes wrong in my life, the feeling of inner peace tends to intensify, but when something good happens there is more chance of me getting lost in it, getting "high" on it, and then experiencing a corresponding low.