beyond opposites
December 9, 2011
Bliss has no counterpart to it. That is the first thing to understand. Pleasure has pain, happiness has unhappiness, but bliss has nothing as a counterpart; it is an organic whole. Buddha used to say, ‘If you taste the ocean from anywhere, it is salty.’ So is the case with the bliss: you can taste it from any corner, from any space, from any direction – it is just blissfulness. There is nothing opposite to it. Bliss is the only experience in life which has no polar opposite to it.