“Meditation … is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being, beyond all habitual patterns.” —Sogyal Rinpoche

The days stretch longer with light from our sun ninety-three million miles away, so far away that the light actually left the star almost ten minutes ago. Light requires time to travel. Yet, recently, scientists devised an experiment that sent light so fast through a chamber that it actually left the device before it fully entered it.

Physics experiments like this open doors from our ordinary reality to extraordinary realms where reality looks different from what it appears to us on an everyday basis. Some say that what physicists have discovered with sophisticated bubble chambers and laser photography greatly resemble what meditative monks have been teaching for hundreds of years. It’s a level of nature where inner and outer worlds meet, where subject and object are no longer separate.

Meditation returns us to ourselves, to our true nature. We make the inner journey to that place where we know beyond a doubt that we are not separate from the world around us. In this place we remember the compassion that lies at the heart of us, connecting us to all others.

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