Thanks for sharing Center. What I'm intersted in knowing is how do you get to this place for yourself? What methods or concentrations help you get there? I'm interested to hear.
I feel that in my sitting when I get to a void full of potential sensation when I reach a single pointedness of mind. Generally my breath is the focus or other sensation in the body. What types of insights do you feel you are having, and do you ever enter with intention?
I am not overly familiar with the Buddhist
Jhanas, but I just wanted to link that. The other nite at a Dharma talk this was the topic of discussion and while I know what they are, I was really joyed to hear a person who has worked with them for many years.
The Jhanas seem to me as an excercise or a weightlifting if you will for the mind, however aren't considered Enlightenment themselves. They merely developements of absorption, which can lead to higher states of calm and access to looking at the true nature of the rising and falling of all things.
I hope you find that interesting and see why I wanted to mention it, alot of what you described touches on some of them, and it's certainly not only approachable from a Buddhist stand point, which is why I asked about how you enter into this place of mind.