Joy: One’s True Nature

Is the experience of joy that arises spontaneously when looking at simple things like flowers an experience of one’s true nature? Rupert says: ‘You’re not mistaken. Each time you have this experience of joy, you are tasting your being. Some experiences like seeing a flower have the power to interrupt the normal flow of experience on the horizontal line of time. Your mind stops traveling back and forth in time, and in that interruption, your being shines. You taste that shining of being as the experience of joy. The experience of joy itself is always the same because it’s always the same shining of being. Peace, joy, love, beauty – these are all different words for the same experience, but the different words we use depend on the context in which the taste of our being shines. If it shines in relationship, we call it love; if it shines in relationship to an object, we call it beauty.’

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

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