Manufacturing Bliss

The question is, do you want to do to your own psyche what humans have done to ecosystem after ecosystem? With the best of intentions, just trying to take care of yourself, fit in with your needs and your environment, you can practice jhanas and set boundaries and get massages — and at some point, you look around to find your inner wilds paved, you... See more

I wasn’t sure what sort of insights I wanted to explore. I had attended the Jhourney retreat primarily to satisfy my intellectual curiosity about a strange phenomenon. Still, I couldn’t help but notice ... things. Why, for example, had I been so quick to pick up the jhanas? I had thought of myself as a sort of lovably grumpy person, not particularl... See more