Down into the deep we go,
Down where no lights shine.
Down into the truth we go;
No ‘me’, no ‘my’, no ‘mine’.

Can you imagine such a state where is this no ‘I’ to speak of? No me, no you, nothing that’s mine? A state where there is no difference between my body and your body, my health and the health of a tree, my life and the life of a snail? A state where nothing is better than anything else, and nothing is separate? Unless you’ve experienced it, probably not.

But many of us have experienced it, at least for a moment. Most of us have had moments where life seems to expand and our sense of self diminishes, where we become so absorbed in something that we lose ourself to the action itself and there is nothing but immense peace. Experiencing it for a second is one thing, but for most of the time? Or all of the time? That’s a different matter. I certainly can’t imagine living that way. Yet this is what we are told is enlightenment by those who have experienced it. And, though I may not be able to imagine it, I believe it is possible, and so, like a scientist, I experiment so that I may test it, so that I may glimpse it. And that is all we can do: keep on working to glimpse it, to see the moment clearly, over and over and over again.

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