| | Author: msj123
From Daniel: MCTB chapter 26: This is the fruit of all the meditator's hard work, the first attainment of ultimate reality, emptiness, Nirvana, God or whatever you wish to call it. In this non-state, there is absolutely no time, no space, no reference point, no experience, no mind, no consciousness, no nothingness, no somethingness, no body, no this, no that, no unity, no duality, and no anything else. Reality stops cold and then reappears. Thus, this is impossible to comprehend, as it goes completely and utterly beyond the rational mind and the universe. To “external time” (if someone were observing the meditator from the outside) this lasts only an instant. It is like an utter discontinuity of the space-time continuum with nothing in the unfindable gap.
From Kenneth: http://dharmaoverground.wetpaint.com/page/A+Dry+Insight+Technique+for+Attaining+Path
Whether it is a Path or a Fruition, it will be experienced as a momentary loss of consciousness. This is Theravada "cessation of mind and body." Upon emerging from that moment of unconsciousness, you know that you were somewhere very nice for awhile, but you can't say where you where. Traditionally, it's said that the mind "takes nibbana as object" during cessation. |