Question:
I wanted to ask you a question about metaphysical meditation. I think that is what it is but am not sure.
Since I was a child I have on occasion meditated on the physical universe and all existence within it. Visualizing it’s vastness in my mind. I then try to bring my focus to the outside of that universe, to the outside of that physical space. What was there before the universe? And what space is that space since it cannot be the physical universe. If it was not here there still must be something or is it just nothingness? Unbeing…is that possible?
Thinking about that visualization and focusing on that meditation brings on a very overwhelming feeling which is indescribable. I think it is fear or anxiousness. I am not sure. I even physically feel it right in my solar plexus and the tingling sensation has been so strong that I have to stop the meditation at times.
However on 2 occasions the mediation ended in an overwhelming feeling of happiness or satisfaction I am not sure again. The first time this happened was when I was about 8 or 9 years old and it was the first time I thought about it. I wondered what would there be if none of us were here including the universe. What would be left and the meditation left me with an actual high. Since then it has happened one other time.
Could you please shed some light on what is going on? What is it that I am trying to conceptualize and why does it give me such a strange feeling? I am a Buddhist in philosophy but am not familiar with all of the various dogma from the lines of teaching. I simply try and follow the simple tenets and mostly the teachings of the Dalai Lama and a few other Buddhist teachers such as Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Answer:
When we visualize we are conditioned to see in terms of three dimensional space. So if your experience of the unlimited nature of the universe is confined to your imagination, then it is hard to fathom. If instead you allow your consciousness to settle down and experience itself as that cosmic intelligence, then you can know it by being it.
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I read and receive your website postings. And read your Twitter. I am always alot happier and realize more after reading your words.
I am Jewish, but what you put out is good.
Sometimes I am totally still in HaShems world. Trying to absorb what is taking place in the universe at one particular moment. Overwhelming at times and other times it is sad and scary. The aging process and emtions of all beings.
I love it in the evenings, this time of year when there is that moment at dusk when the curtain is being lowered by HaShem . To actually watch what is taking place. A whole different world is being introduced to us.
One thing that I have noticed about you. You bring up a memory in my soul.
Thank you for the “Connection”
Be well and B”H
“When we visualize we are conditioned to see in terms of three dimensional space.”
Really!?
I think, sense, feel, intuit that you are using double-speak. Other wise you would respect Shoshanah’s Self. Her heart, soul, mind, feelings, words and thoughts. Her entirety; her
whole being; exactly where and as she is and wants to be.
I want to know her and her concerns . . . she is as important to me as you are.
As your audience–in both senses–she is half of your ‘creative mystical act’ and thus would,
if she could, fully celebrate that here, right now, on this page.
Instead you persist in truncating her words and Self.
Exactly as you persist in doing mine. I don’t care what you think of me. Think of Her instead.
I had a similar experience. I was thinking
about the nature of time and space, and thought
that if there was no matter, than time and
space would not exist, and that matter
exists only because there is nothingness.
And then I got a high too. it felt like my mind
became the nothingness i was trying to
comprehend. And then it was over, but not
easily. I still felt it, within and without. It is
perfectly unexplainable. haha