Ultimate Results of Higher Level Meditations

Transcend life by living it "Constant consciousness" through all levels of waking, sleep, and dreaming. After you achieve this, you pour yourself back into your individual bodymind/ego; "vehicle of Spirit." Causes a deep and powerful engagement with Life; far higher intensity; see life as a very fun dream

A powerful compassion flows through you; want to free your friends from their suffering.

"And those persons through whom the soul shines, through whom the 'soul has its way,' are not therefore weak characters, timid personalities, meek presences among us. They are personal plus, not personal minus.

Precisely because they are no longer exclusively identified with the individual personality, and yet because they still preserve the personality, then through that personality flows the force and fire of the soul.

They may be soft-spoken and often remain in silence, but it is a thunderous silence that veritably drowns out the egos chattering loudly all around them.

Or they may be animated and very outgoing, but their dynamism is magnetic, and people are drawn somehow to their presence, fascinated.

Make no mistake: these are strong characters, these souls, sometimes wildly exaggerated characters, sometimes world-historical, precisely because their personalities are plugged into a universal source that rumbles through their veins and rudely rattles those around them."

"Indeed, the whole point is to be fully at home in the body and its desires, the mind and its ideas, the spirit and its light.

To embrace them fully, evenly, simultaneously, since all are equally gestures of the One and Only Taste.

To inhabit lust and watch it play; to enter ideas and follow their brilliance; to be swallowed by Spirit and awaken to a glory that time forgot to name.

Body and mind and spirit, all contained, equally contained, in the ever-present awareness that grounds the entire display."

"In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander.

What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not you yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self?

When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?"

"...this great emancipatory tradition: it involved 'a number of extraordinarily and diversely gifted individuals whose influence… had been tremendous.

Their common denominator was an intense desire to acquire, to advance, and to disseminate knowledge – a wish to improve the lot as well as the administration of humankind, an assumption of responsibility and a passion, no tamer word will do, for truth.' "

"As your consciousness grows and evolves into global and worldcentric modes, you can no longer be truly happy without at least the thought of extending this happiness and joy to all others.

You become idealistic in the best sense of the word, wishing to relieve the suffering of - and extend happiness to - all people – not just your family, or your friends, or your tribe, your religion, your nation (those are all sociocentric and ethnocentric), but rather to all peoples, regardless of race or sex or creed.

At least to some degree, you realize that you are not deeply and truly happy if somebody, somewhere, is suffering. The thought of others suffering starts to disturb your awareness, just a little at first, then a lot - a nagging thought that rains on your parade and keeps you from rejoicing, and you begin to act, to whatever degree you are moved, to try to better the lot of humankind, with whatever talents and resources you have. Your happiness is not truly happy until all others can share in that joy."

"When a person is fairly enlightened, they can transmit – actually transmit – that enlightened awareness through a touch, a look, a gesture, or even through the written word. It's not as weird as it sounds.

We are all 'transmitting' our present state to each other all the time. If you are depressed, it can be 'contagious,' depressing others around you.

When you are happy, others tend to get happy. Just so with the higher states.

In the presence of a psychic-level yogi, you tend to feel power.

In the presence of a subtle-level saint, you tend to feel great peace.

In the presence of a causal-level sage, you tend to feel massive equanimity (calm composure).

In the presence of a nondual siddha – these are often very ordinary people – you simply find yourself smiling a lot."

Ken Wilber

Meditation Notes...the Writings of Ken Wilber