| Untagged | 28 Mar 2008 |
| What is transcending? by david | |
When I hear you speak about transcending, I think of a certain special state I sometimes experience when I listen to music or get lost in reverie, or just before falling asleep. I wonder if that’s what transcending is. Is it possible to experience transcending without meditation? Can I transcend and not realize it?
Many people have already experienced transcending, but they may not realize it. It’s an experience that you can have just before you go to sleep. You’re awake, but you experience a sort of fall, and you maybe see some white light and get a little jolt of bliss. And you say: “Holy jumping George!” When you go from one state of consciousness to another—for instance, from waking to sleeping—you pass through a gap. And in that gap, you can transcend.
I picture it like a round white room that has yellow, red, and blue curtains covering the white wall. The curtains are three states of consciousness: waking, sleeping, and dreaming. But in the gap between each curtain, you can see the white of the Absolute—the pure bliss consciousness. You can transcend in that little piece of white. Then you come to the next state of consciousness. The white room really is all around you all the time, even though the curtains cover most of it; so it’s here, there, and everywhere. And sometimes, without knowing it or knowing how, people have transcended. With Transcendental Meditation, from the waking state of consciousness you can experience that white wall anytime when you sit and meditate. That’s the beautiful thing about it.
