I: A Meditation and a Memoir

For years I wondered what it actually meant to meditate. Then, through a process of very fine teachers, I learned that meditation was simply emptying the thoughts, perceptions of form, feelings, emotions, and stories of the surface-separate self, (which parades around as the true I), in order to go into the Silence and the formless Depth of Consciousness-Brilliance (Awareness) itself. This is where in meditation one experiences the real Unbounded-Self (Enlightenment) which is the same I fou...