| True, except for this: > Obviously I'm hand waving here as I'm out of my depth with this subject. My sense though is that there are things about the brain about its evolution that are eluding us, and which are significant. Please go and deepen you meditations.
First: Get to the point, where you have stripped your awareness away from your sensory input (pratyahara) (which everyone may know, it can be done, when you are deeply concentrated, someone may have said something to you, but you didn't "hear" it) If you are at that point, your entire "experience" will consist of your "inner world" (thoughs and emotions). So next is to "concentrate" your mind (Dharana) by bringing it back to the same object (lets say a rose for example). This takes A LOT of practice but after the years, you mind will become clear and focused so that the time where only the object (the rose) is in your mind becomes longer and longer (a few seconds up to minutes). As you practice further episodes of undisturbed, completely one-pointed mind become longer and longer and you enter into Dhyana (meditation). You are completely focused on the object, and the object itself is all that you experience. Imagine what that means: your entire experience constist of only the rose and nothing but the rose!!! As this goes on and on for longer and longer periods of time, the yogis and mystics say that the boundaries between "you" the subject and "the rose" the object start to dissolve more and more, until they vanish. You are the rose and the rose is. Nothing but the rose that you are!! (They call it samadhi, the dissolution of individual existence and merging of object and subject). This is just on an object but when the object is your awareness itself and this process happens, they call it many different names depending on tradition. ("Nirvikalpa Samadhi" in the yogic tradition, "Unio-Mystica" in the christian traditions, "fana" or "Baqaa billah" in the islamic mystical tradition. It is the realization of the unity of consciousness that is and that only is and that "I" merges into... |