Beyond Meditation

Going beyond meditation is called Samadhi. In meditation we experience the deepening of silence, with the mind's chatter fading more and more into the background.

Then what happens as silence continues and deepens, it reaches a switching point. At that switching point, silence turns into what I call "the opening of the inner space". From here the "I" disappears, as it cannot continue to exist simultaneously with the "opening of the inner space." This can be experienced short term, which is most unusual already in the first place, because many meditators find it difficult to reach this without proper guidance.

Generally with successful meditation practice there will be many short-term Samadhis before the final Grand Flowering. Ultimately when the opening of the inner space is maintained and the individual disappears into Infinity, this would be called Sahaj Samadhi or the Sustained Transcendental Experience as in the case of Osho, Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj.