Life at rest

June 14th, 2023

How do we reconcile our lives (hectic and busy with responsibility) with happiness (beyond just pleasure and fulfillment of needs)? Is blissful rest just an idea behind the concept of heaven or nirvana? Can we envisage rest or eternity without cessation of any and all activities? I think those religious concepts are rather about inertia and negativity (as in lack of any negative stimuli) and that doesn't work for me.

I search for a combination of activity (since some life activities are unavoidable) and the rest that is beyond physical and carnal but rather mystical — in a sense that all things mystical are deeper and meaningful and simply better — but not so mystical as touching emotional and theoretical objections to possible mortification of body and mind and soul. There has to be a proper combination to experience bliss here and now.

And not in small doses, but in a constant stream, which can be turned on and off as our needs and wants come.

Promises from religious books and figures about awaiting the eternity of heaven or nirvana are bunk and wrong by design — we cannot reconcile awaiting eternal happiness after death while we are here at a specific time and place in our lives with others in the same position. I refuse to accept that there is no possibility of something better, of a way of activity (life) which is also at a blissful rest. I want to go beyond the idea of heaven or nirvana and bring whatever I find here and now and for myself.