Life Outside: Meditation

  Through the years, what I stayed with was meditation.

Increasingly, I found myself intrigued by how Buddhist Monks are able to meditate as long as they do.

I tried it once, and did five hours only. 

I was aiming for eight hours after a monk told me a Catholic priest went to them to learn meditation and did eight hours.

Now and again, I would engaged in ten days private retreat.

During the last retreat, I was able to engage in a five hours meditation.

Four hours was feasible, five hours was very hard.

I was able to engage in long hours of meditation because increasingly,

I found myself entering into trance meditation.

I could sit anywhere, be anywhere, waiting at the doctor's office or the like and find 

myself drawn into trance meditation.

With trance meditation, one loses sense of time and space,

making an hour meditation seemed like ten minutes for someone not used to 

meditation.

How do I engaged in trance meditation?

With trance meditation, everything receded into the background.

And I am gripped by something that takes me over increasingly.

As it takes me over, I go deeper and deeper into trance states where nothing remains, 

there is just me and that nothingness I know to be God.

And I could stay hours just lost in that infinity.