An experience I had while meditating

I made a post in the weekly r/Buddhism Meditation Discussion about an experience I had while meditating & someone had mentioned I should make my own post about it with my background and meditation practices. Here is what I posted if your interested:

“I don’t know much at all about Buddhism, but the other day I was meditating deeply and something I cannot explain happened. I had an epiphany. I ceased to exist. All of my thoughts stopped and I felt like I became One with everything. I felt an indescribable sense of peace and unlimited love & bliss. An incomprehensible sense of pure ecstasy. My awareness expanded exponentially. My perception of space and matter ceased to exist. I realized that time is a mental construct which does not exist. There is no time, just change. I began to experience a place where there was no change. No beginning or end. I felt like I was experiencing a place beyond the material world. I stayed like that for about 8hrs before I returned. When I was back in my body everything looked different, like my preconceived notions where dissolved and I was seeing things as there actually where, which made my perception of everything look almost unrecognizable. I had forgotten who I was and what my name was, or how to talk or walk. After about an hour, I started to return to normal. I feel like that realization was the ultimate purpose of life. I want to go back to that beautiful place, but I know I must stay in the material world. I feel like my only goal in life now is to help others realize this and to reduce suffering in anyway possible. I would greatly appreciate anyone’s opinion or advice on my experience, from a Buddhist point of view. Thanks for reading.”

So a while back I read the book ‘The Secret of the Golden Flower’. I use some of the techniques talked about in that book. I usually just focus on my breathing and try to catch myself in the process of thinking, and stop it. Sometimes I focus on the point slightly above the middle of the eyebrows, some may call it the 3rd eye. I try to meditate everyday, mostly at night. Sometimes I’ll meditate for many hours with my eyes closed without moving.

I also study Hinduism, I’ve read the Bhagavad Gita and some of the 4 Vedas. I don’t know much about Buddhism but I’m trying to learn, I recently read The Dhammapada. I’m not necessarily committed to any one religion. I seek only what is true. Objective, unchanging truths.

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