The notice board of the cafe where I write offers a revolving loop of different paths to bliss: Maum Meditation, TransDance, Chod Training and, most oddly, the drinking of wolf colostrum.
The path to that bliss is obscure, though, because they think everyone is doing aging wrong.
They didn't understand that the path to true bliss required abandoning the material.
Called the Eightfold Way (after Buddha's Eightfold Path to Enlightenment and bliss), the scheme grouped mesons and baryons (e.g., protons and neutrons) into multiplets of 1, 8, 10, or 27 members on the basis of various properties.
Moskowitz's path to mastering the bliss point began in earnest not at Harvard but a few months after graduation, 16 miles from Cambridge, in the town of Natick, where the U.S. Army hired him to work in its research labs.
When you step off the beaten path to "follow your bliss", as mythologist Joseph Campbell said, you are on a completely unique journey.
Aside from the obvious technical challenges that come with any piece of technology, there is one significant hurdle on the path to home automation bliss that's worth keeping in mind.
The clearer the path to domestic and professional bliss, the more cookie-cutter and camera-ready the relationships seem ― and the more questionable the actual love behind them.
At first I thought it was my imagination, yet as I continued to read it was unmistakable: "Those who rate sensual pleasures as the highest bliss will find them a path to hell".
