If meditation were about getting in touch with some kind of mysterious primary field, you could even say getting into harmony with it, then meditation might be more complex and difficult than previously believed.
Rather than just sit for forty-minutes, several times a day, what if it were possible to harmonize with this mysterious primary field in only a few minutes? And what if this is what samādhi is really all about, viz., being harmonious with that field? There are several definitions of samādhi in Sanskrit and one of them is "putting together, joining or combining with."
For the one who is meditating there is nothing to harmonize with as far as the carnal body is concerned which are the five aggregates or skandhas. We want to harmonize, not with the body but, instead, with our Buddha-nature which is transcendent. But first we must attain direct intuition of this nature if we are going to harmonize with it. Subsequent to attaining an intuition of it, then the work of samādhi commences as does the life of the Bodhisattva. In the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, the Bodhisattva's charge gets larger by orders of magnitude as he advances from stage to stage via many samādhis. First he has 1000 samādhis, then a 100,000, then a 1,000,000 etc.
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