--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > Ultimately > > bliss is quite stupid! > > Sort of like tits.
Excellent analogy. Tits are useful for producing milk for young'uns, but as it turns out, small, almost non- existent tits produce just as much milk as big ones. So why do big ones develop? According to one study on apes that I read a few years ago, it's entirely for the purposes of sexual attraction. In great apes, the female apes with the biggest tits get the biggest, baddest alpha apes, the ones most able to provide for them. So it might be with bliss. If you're a spiritual teacher trying to attract devotees, if you give "bliss" short shrift or talk about it as just another relative phen- omenon, you get ho-hum devotees, and not very many of them. But talk Big Bliss, and the importance of bliss, and you get *lots* of devotees, all hoping to suck on Big Bliss. :-)
