Reality is like a dark room. Awareness is like a circle of light cast from a flashlight . Meditation manipulates that circle of light. Brightening and dimming i

Reality is like a dark room. Awareness is like a circle of light cast from a flashlight . Meditation manipulates that circle of light. Brightening and dimming it. Shrinking and enlarging it. I know of 2 techniques. The Buddhists call them Samatha and Vipassana.