Mental imagery and satori:
During mystical union or satori or sunyata or what Western Buddhists call
enlightenment, mental imagery vanishes along with inner sense, including the
intuition of inner time. The eyelids are closed. Thought, sensibility, imagination,
and the ability to will recall all cease. One is experiencing what the Japanese
Buddhists call No Thing: a timeless and unconditioned state, without mental
imagery or thought. Simultaneously with the experience of No Thing, one is
experiencing Enlightenment:
an experience of a supreme integrity,
a supreme freedom, a supreme bliss, and a profound grounding in Being and
Truth within.
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