That sounds pretty scary, oceanghost. It sounds like you haven't actually confirmed yet what you come to know through your practice of meditation and how you ar

That sounds pretty scary, oceanghost. It sounds like you haven't actually confirmed yet what you come to know through your practice of meditation and how you are changed by it. There is a huge, polar gap between the process and results of the meditation taught in modern spiritual practices (such as Zen Buddhism) and what Gautama Buddha taught to his students.