The big empty

[JustSitting]

A few months back, while meditating I had a moment of breakthrough. I had been sitting for about an hour when I “popped” into something.

For several breaths I was in a place wholly different than where I normally am while meditating. The best way I can describe it is a massive luminescent darkness, it was an expansive boundless big empty. My breath was very loud and my thoughts tried to narrate what was happening but it was beyond my mind.

It felt like I was floating in an endless void. I don't think I've been the same ever sense.

Anyone know what this could be?

[nyk]

I call it the Big Room. I love the Big Room. The coolest entry into the
Big Room for myself has been a handful of times while strolling thru some
big woods, often after some significant ceremonial gesture on shore or
mountain.

[gandydancer]

Yes, I think I know just what you mean and you discribed it to a T. It happened to me once while mediatating also. ...an endless circle of darkness filled with radiance? A warm mother's womb and yet fatherly in it's cool endlessness? :D

[JustSitting]

Sounds like you've had the same kind of thing, any idea what "it" is? :)

[nyk]

I think it is the 'real world'...our native landscape, the unfettered climate.
It feels wide open, contrary to the earthly world, which feels closed down.

[nanouk]

A few months back, while meditating I had a moment of breakthrough. I had been sitting for about an hour when I “popped” into something.

For several breaths I was in a place wholly different than where I normally am while meditating. The best way I can describe it is a massive luminescent darkness, it was an expansive boundless big empty. My breath was very loud and my thoughts tried to narrate what was happening but it was beyond my mind.

It felt like I was floating in an endless void. I don't think I've been the same ever sense.

Anyone know what this could be?

Awakening?

~n~

[nyk]

A wee and haunting glimpse perhaps.

A trail to follow Into the Twilight.

;)

[nyk]

Anyone else had an experience of this 'big world' - particularly while out
and about (rather than just sitting)? And if so, how did/do you feel about
it?

I am curious.

[gandydancer]

Sounds like you've had the same kind of thing, any idea what "it" is? :)

Well, yes I do :D . In everyday life we are enclosed and limited by time and space. Everything we feel, and especially what we think is experienced only in opposites--hot/cold, sad/happy, etc. But the experience of the Divine, God, no-thing, etc., is not bound by time and space and the world of opposites. That is why when you tried to discribe your experience you had to say "a luminescent darkness", which of course is impossible.

I had a similar experience once when I experienced the ultimate agony and joy at the same time, and they were one and the same. Of course there are no words for it, and I've never seen art that might begin to discribe it. The closest I know is "Ave Maria" played with piano and violin, though as sublime as that is, it is far from the actual experience.