March 8, 2014

I was in a group doing Zen meditation and decided to focus on Silence and Stillness, and soon I was just resting as awareness.  Then I had a glimpse of the World-Being (March 4) and there was a moment when I saw this realm of being where everything was just being what it was, without anyone experiencing it.  It was like noticing consciousness itself, that is,  the presence in which everything is existing.  But the presence is not me, nor is it other than me. Everything just IS.  I could say “I am that” but those would just be words and equally not perceived by anyone.  When they talk about no-self they really mean no-self!  There’s not even a self to REALIZE no-self. I didn’t go very deep into it but it was startling; or I saw that it WOULD be startling if i really got it.  The question then was: how is this possible?!  It’s inexplicable.  Not to itself, just to the mind.  I glimpsed the inexplicable realm – a shadow of it – for a nanosecond.