I learned how to meditate almost 30 years ago and have spent much of my life with a committed daily meditation practice. Throughout the years I’ve often immersed myself in retreat environments for months at a time. In April I sat down for the introduction to Light and Sound and was intrigued by the new focus for my meditation. I prepared for 2nd Initiation for a month and in May sat down for 10 days.

The 3-4th days my mind was like a wild tiger who was brought into captivity and paced anxiously along the wall of the Void. It wanted out beyond the limit, but could not pass. It wasn’t until my mind gave up effort that I was able to move beyond it and into the vast emptiness beyond. I had glimpsed that emptiness before in my meditation, but this time it felt as if my being actually stepped into the emptiness and the solidity of the “real world” suddenly became less real, more transparent, more like a dream. I could almost see the limit as a clear boundary where my mind could not pass.

I clearly understood that all of phenomena was created from this great vast space and as I have reemerged into my “normal life” I can see the space creeping into my everyday experience. I am more myself and less worried about how I appear to others, I often find myself seeing the world as more of a dream where all display is the display of light and sound and not separate from the Light and Sound of the meditation experience.

My daily meditation is different now, I can connect with that space every time I sit down or even throughout my day. When thoughts arise I see them as empty, as illusions, as something that was born from the space but is not the space. I know my thoughts are not me, that I am not solid, that I was born from the womb of that great vast space and I am not separate from it. I know I am not the space, I am something beyond it and I know that because there is still an observer, a duality. My awareness can bring me into the space but there is still an observer. I have not yet discovered who I really am, what/who is observing.

I have a deep wish to help benefit others in my lifetime and I clearly see that Enlightenment through the path of Light and Sound can help me have greater impact, more peace and happiness and overall help raise the quality of my life and the lives of those around me.