The world we live in, including the bodies we inhabit, can be thought of as a spiritual super density. Everything that we perceive is a density of some sort even our thoughts. According to the Buddha, we can only say of this density with its riot of shapes, that it is name and form (namarupa).
But what if, for example, we were to focus on one point of this super density? Quite logically, if we could, it would be zero density. Would we be, then, in another world? Would there be no time or space as we know it?
For ancient meditators, the ability to focus on zero density was mastered. It is not the case with modern man. Quite the opposite, modern man can only focus on ever wider densities. In fact, he has almost lost the ability to focus on a single point of this density. As a result, he remains bound to various worlds and, of course, samsara. In fact, we could say that this whole age has lost it spiritual capacity to engage with the radical, transcendent nature of being.
The whole thrust of meditation concerns breaking the trance of this super density which has engulfed us through our own desire for it. For this reason, we cannot muster the inner strength to see beyond the ever-changing veil of our mental densities. It repulses us while, at the same time, enticing us to pay homage to it.
We can only transcend the veil of density if we are able to confine the mind to a single point (ekakaracittassa) as if to singularize it. If we are successful, in the exact moment of confining our mind, thusly, we reach the pure transcendent Mind which is a pure animative power. Short of this breakthrough, one is only engaged in trying to conceive of a material point that is still a density.
It can take a person five or ten years to accomplish such a meditation who is serious! Our powers of concentration have become so weakened by the toxicity of modernism, that many people do not even have the simple capacity to control even their own thoughts. Their thoughts move them, in other words. They are so programmed by modern culture so as to be unable to even think it is possible to think outside of the box of this super density we call our world. But only beyond this density is nirvana to be found which is deathless—for what absent of any density is immortal.
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