A friend of mine told me this story long time ago. While I was working on certain project in classroom, a female whom we were related urgently felt a need to labor, and somebody has to help her get to the hospital. While all this was happening around him, he was not aware of it. This is a sort of samadhi or gone that the teacher talks about in the samadhi chapter of the book, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy. This is also what the author calls positive samadhi.
An opposite state is also experienced by people whose meditation has advanced. They are presently not aware of anything but the moment in which they are in. This itself is not retained but passes on, as the author says elsewhere in the book. This is what the author calls absolute samadhi. This samadhi, in my experience, serves as charge to the experience of positive samadhi or fana, gone.
An opposite state is also experienced by people whose meditation has advanced. They are presently not aware of anything but the moment in which they are in. This itself is not retained but passes on, as the author says elsewhere in the book. This is what the author calls absolute samadhi. This samadhi, in my experience, serves as charge to the experience of positive samadhi or fana, gone.
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