"It is very easy

to get caught up

in the teachings themselves.

To read something written

about meditation or enlightenment

and then take that on as the truth.

But all teachings can ever really do

is point you in the right direction.

What happens when you get there

is beyond understanding.

Let's take a meditation technique

like watching your thoughts.

You can sit down, close your eyes

and with practice

learn to witness thoughts.

But once you actually become

a witness to your thoughts

and individual identification dissolves,

something happens

that cannot be explained in words.

The best you can say

is that meditation takes over.

You are no longer meditating,

there is only meditation happening

and it is completely beyond your control.

You have entered

or better said

disappeared into

an entire different realm

of experience

where the intellectual mind

is no longer there

to perceive what is happening.

When you come out of it,

I could ask you to detail

your experience

but you couldn't explain it.

The best you could say is

that it was incredibly blissful,

because even now

you feel that bliss.

You know you just

entered something miraculous

and that your life has changed forever

but what that miracle was

is beyond understanding.

And that is where

meditation really begins.

It begins where

understanding stops.

It takes over

when you have surrendered the idea

that anything could ever

truly be understood.

Blessings,

Kip"