Joy and Interruption

How does an interruption of experience relate to the experience of joy? Rupert says: ‘An event like winning the lottery might not be sufficiently powerful to bring your wandering mind into the present moment if you’re still concerned about the future. But for someone whose fears about health and security would be resolved by winning the lottery, it would interrupt their experience and into that gap, the joy of being would flow. It can be a very small thing – just the taste of coffee, something a good chef creates that gathers all your faculties onto this moment. The nature of being is joy and being accompanies all experience, but much of our experience veils our being and therefore veils its innate joy. Suffering is not really the absence of joy but the veiling of joy.’

From event 05 - 12 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 5–12 April 2025

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