The serenity and joy of meditation

Imagine a danasattva sitting in deep meditation. His attention becomes focussed. He can now see the figments of the ego flit across his mind and pass away. A delicious lightness of being floods his awareness. Gradually, the burden of egocentric selfhood drops away. He is not ‘blissed out’: his attention is exquisitely poised; universal loving kindness arises. His being is filled with light as his awareness soars and expands so that he feels the boundary between his inner and outer selves and the rest of cosmos dissolve. He sits long with a feeling of deep and quiet joy until he is ready to return to the World with a generosity of spirit that overflows.