FWIW, Maharishi said at one point, "Bliss isn't blissful." By which he meant, I assume, that to experience blissfulness required some degree of waking-state consciousness. IOW, you wouldn't experience blissfullness in transcendental-consciousness-by-itself--but you would be in a state of bliss by definition (the "ananda" part of sat-chit-ananda).
I'd like to know how Curtis does this dive deep for samadhi meditation, C: It was Barry who described his practice this way. I don't accept the conceptual model of samadhi to describe my meditation experiences anymore. My experience with mindfulness meditation is that it is almost in the opposite direction to "diving deep." It is a more full awareness of the what I am experiencing right now without any evaluation of 'deep" or not. I am not sure that bliss is a term that fits my perspective. Both forms of meditation are subjectively enjoyable but in different ways. It is the differences that I am hoping to discover as i continue to practice. I am the last person to go to for meditation advice my brother! I am a "one step up from shitting in my own diaper" baby with meditation. (But as a factor of comfort, that upgrade makes all the difference in the world!0 I have been doing some shikantaza meditation, but I just get vibbed with the bliss I feel after a little while and then get up and go do something else. The bliss starts after about one minute so its like, ok I'm here now WTF do I do? Bliss gets tiresome after a while I find. Any guidance on that Curtis?
