The only reason you feel pain is because you’re so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there’s no pain.
All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you’re void itself? There’s only the void. In the void, there’s only shining, perfect clear light of reality.
Nirvikalpa samadhi or sahaja samadhi is all the way up. You get above the cloud line to the land of eternal snows and it’s ecstasy beyond ecstasy.
The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.
There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.
I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don’t trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.
I think I’m on an angle. I’m on an oblique angle through all of existence.
At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.
In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.
I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes and I found myself in a timeless world of light.
Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn’t have on a regular basis.
I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman’s liberation before it was the fashion.
It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.
When I was very, very young – four, five, six – I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.
I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.
At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.
School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.
They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn’t accept.
I really didn’t want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn’t love each other.