samadhi

“What do I have to say about advanced meditation?   It’s a feeling.  It’s beyond the body and beyond the mind.  I would classify beginning meditation — beginning, intermediate, whatever you’d like to call it — as meditation with thought.  As long as there is thought in the mind while you’re sitting, practicing zazen, then…

Concepts like time and space are redefined:  “Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time,“ says Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz Images in our lives are snapshots, stills in a movie, and always exist.  We move through these perfectly still images and create a sense of motion like a cartoon….

“I’d like to consider with you what the nature of samadhi is, and try and gain an understanding of not only why an individual seeks to go into samadhi, and how that occurs, but what the result of this process is.”   Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz Talk 9 of 28 in the Lakshmi Series….