I agree with Joseph Campbell, that it is good to feel the rapture of being alive.. visionary sacred plants, such as cannabis, peyote, ayahuasca, and mushrooms definitely help with this.
A while ago I'd have agreed with you, but now? No. They're good at getting a sustained glimpse, but they drag the experience up to your conscious awareness so abruptly that it comes with a rollercoaster of distracting side effects. What Joe is speaking of here is its being something you come into through your own striving.
Your Rapture, Your Bliss in a natural sense not a societal sense of measuring the success of it through the accumulation of material things. There is a huge difference.
this is a big question, which I can only provide a limited answer to, but my understanding is that we aim to let go of the idea that there is a self that experiences life separate from your body, or an 'observer'. When we let go of this perception of separation, then we can fully experience life, in the body, without any division between constructs of 'self' and 'experience'. I actually just listened to a dharma talk on the 'Mindfulness of Breath' sutta, which delves deeply into this point: th-cam.com/video/DpFaH0HYtKI/w-d-xo.html
The rapture of being alive 😃
My favorite quote.
God bless this man!
Now, that we Live - we can distinguish.
I agree with Joseph Campbell, that it is good to feel the rapture of being alive.. visionary sacred plants, such as cannabis, peyote, ayahuasca, and mushrooms definitely help with this.
The most rapture of being alive..for me..was attending Grateful Dead Concerts in the 80s & 90s
A while ago I'd have agreed with you, but now? No. They're good at getting a sustained glimpse, but they drag the experience up to your conscious awareness so abruptly that it comes with a rollercoaster of distracting side effects. What Joe is speaking of here is its being something you come into through your own striving.
Yes!🍀🌷❤️
I think he said that people aren’t afraid of dying as much as they are of never having experienced living.
...what it feels to be alive
Isn't that the experiencer that we are suppose to let go of in Buddhism?
Your Rapture, Your Bliss in a natural sense not a societal sense of measuring the success of it through the accumulation of material things. There is a huge difference.
this is a big question, which I can only provide a limited answer to, but my understanding is that we aim to let go of the idea that there is a self that experiences life separate from your body, or an 'observer'. When we let go of this perception of separation, then we can fully experience life, in the body, without any division between constructs of 'self' and 'experience'. I actually just listened to a dharma talk on the 'Mindfulness of Breath' sutta, which delves deeply into this point: th-cam.com/video/DpFaH0HYtKI/w-d-xo.html