"Experiences of the deepest intimacy can come out of meditative experience. From the outside, it may look like you are totally isolated while you are meditating, but in fact, meditation is a way to be completely in touch with the illusion of separation and isolation. It brings an understanding that we are never isolated, never separate. In the yogic tradition, the image of a wave on the ocean is frequently used to convey the sense of the part being connected to the - whole. The wave has its own separate identity for a short time, but at the same moment, it is a seamless expression of the water - of the ocean, of the whole. As a biologist Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., the founder and director of the Stress Reduction, Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, feel that way about life itself. Yes, life does come in individual packages: my body, my lifetime, my problems, my career, and so on. But all of that is, in some very profound way, an expression of life processes unfolding in an unbroken, seamless continuity of wholeness."
"Experiences of the deepest intimacy can come out of meditative
experience. From the outside, it may look like you are totally
isolated while you are meditating, but in fact, meditation is a way
to be completely in touch with the illusion of...
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Dr. Dean Ornish answered:"Experiences of the deepest intimacy can come out of meditative experience. From the outside, it may look like you are totally isolated while you are meditating, but in fact, meditation is a way to be completely in touch with the illusion of separation and isolation. It brings an understanding that we are never isolated, never separate. In the yogic tradition, the image of a wave on the ocean is frequently used to convey the sense of the part being connected to the - whole. The wave has its own separate identity for a short time, but at the same moment, it is a seamless expression of the water - of the ocean, of the whole. As a biologist Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., the founder and director of the Stress Reduction, Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, feel that way about life itself. Yes, life does come in individual packages: my body, my lifetime, my problems, my career, and so on. But all of that is, in some very profound way, an expression of life processes unfolding in an unbroken, seamless continuity of wholeness."
