I don’t meditate to escape the world.
I meditate to touch it, at the level where it stops being solid and starts being sacred.
Call it the present moment. Call it the quantum field. Call it God if you want to. I’ve stopped needing the right name. What matters is that it’s real, and I feel it every time I sit.
The quantum field isn’t some fantasy. It’s not science fiction. It’s the fabric of reality, the invisible sea from which all particles emerge and dissolve. It’s not filled with things, it’s filled with possibility. With potential. With quiet.
And when I sit in zazen, that’s exactly what I feel. Not ideas. Not emotions. Not clarity. Just… field.
The breath becomes slow. The body disappears. Thoughts rise like bubbles through water, and something deeper begins to hum, like being aware of the space between everything. The space that is everything.
That’s the doorway.
Zen doesn’t tell you what to find in meditation. It tells you how to arrive, with stillness, with softness, with no demand. And when you do that, the mind stops collapsing reality into categories. It stops pretending it’s in control. And suddenly, you can feel what’s underneath.
And what’s underneath?
Silence.
Spaciousness.
Possibility.
The same field that quantum physics describes, Zen practitioners encounter, without instruments, without theories. Just breath. Just awareness. Just being.
You don’t need a lab to feel the field.
You don’t need a PhD to touch the void.
You just need to sit.
To listen.
To stop naming what’s in front of you and start feeling it.
Meditation is the interface.
Awareness is the technology.
And the field is always here, waiting.
So next time you sit, don’t look for peace. Don’t look for insight. Don’t look for anything.
Just open the door.
And step into the field.