How do you meditate?

[anagogy]

Would you share some of your experiences, anagogy?

I don't ordinarily share many personal experiences, but some of the more interesting experiences occur after meditation is over and done with. It seems many of these meditation practices appear to carry a kind of "momentum" into our daily life.

One experience I've been having recently, which I attribute directly to this meditation practice of centering my consciousness in beingness could be best described as having occasional experiences of oneness in my day to day life.

It's actually kind of difficult to even describe the experience, but It would probably best be compared to "falling asleep", except, the exact opposite of that. It's like "falling awake", if that makes any sense.

The sensation is one of a complete melding of my consciousness with the environment. I compare it to sleep in the sense that if you try to be aware of the precise instant of falling asleep, that activity will tend to prevent the sleep from occurring. Also, if I become aware of myself during these episodes of "falling awake", it appears to instantly "reconstitute" my ego, or selfhood, and I come back to normal consciousness.

I really must stress that I feel like I'm failing miserably at describing this, too, by the way. It really has to be experienced to be understood. It's like being completely relaxed, yet hyper aware. Self-hood seemingly disappears, and its like all that is left is just pure functioning. There are seemingly no distortions of thought.

It is absolutely blissful when it occurs (often happens on long drives). It doesn't appear to interrupt anything my body/mind is doing (it's not like I just go off the road or anything ). It's like taking a step out of mind and body, and just existing as a spirit.

As near as I can tell, it appears to be some variety of satori or kensho experience.

I've also come out of deeper states of meditation with more knowledge than I went in with. I've come out of a deep meditation experience, and suddenly, I just understand some aspect of metaphysics or consciousness that i didn't previously grok.

The other thing I experience a lot is what I call "winks from the universe". I feel like the more distortions of separation I let go of, the more I experience what might be best be termed "divine timing". I'm drawn into perfect rendezvous' with events and times. I will constantly look at clocks and digital displays at triple digits. Or, as another example, I will show up somewhere at "just the right time" for some particular event to occur. It's like there is just a flow to things that was previously just a series of disconnected events. You begin to really see the "oneness shining through from behind the curtain".

Anyway, that is just a sample of experiences I've derived from meditation. Consciousness is a rich and vast resource with never-ending treasures to be discovered by the vigilant observer.