Set to a string composition by Ezio Bosso, "Echoes" is a stark and haunting work that draws on Dao's memories of his early life in Vietnam but seems to be more universal, a meditation on loss, or a search for meaning.
The most basic and universal of all meditation techniques, breathing meditation is a great place to start your practice.
While it is possible to experience the boundless, formless, and timeless unity of the Void as "universal being" through intensive meditation practices, cosmic experiences that transcend and subsume the Void, and with it the whole of creation, are not accessible by one's personal efforts.
He thinks this kind of pre-meditation is universal; I think that's less modesty than simple underestimation of his own skills.
It is a meditation on the universal and the particular, as philosophers like to say.
Tibetan Buddhists, for example, regard the mandala (Sanskrit: "circle") diagram as a collection point of universal forces, accessible to humans by meditation.
Meditation, Sri Daya Mata said, is a universal balm: "If we turn our consciousness within, in deep meditation, communing with God even a little bit every day, we begin gradually to experience that love which is our real nature.
Though we now usually hear it in the concert hall, the Passion was, of course, written for liturgical use, and forms a communal meditation on individual mortality, collective grief and universal redemption, all carefully mirrored in Gardiner's approach.
"So I felt it was the fate of one man and, in a certain way, the story of one generation, plus a meditation on time, history, fate and issues more universal than the specific history of Carlos".
Having introduced the Evil Genius Doubt, the First Meditation program of demolition is not only hyperbolic but universal.
