Consider the plenum to be your own body of bliss.
- The instruction. Sitting in the same open, solitary setting (it can also be done on its own), feel that the entire sky — the whole infinite plenum — is filled with your own bliss body; let that inner sense expand until there is no boundary between you and the space.
- The seven-body map. There are seven bodies; the bliss body is the last, deepest sheath, lying just around the essential soul (atma). The further you go within, the more blissful you feel — you are nearing it. Meditating in solitude already moves you toward it; this technique makes that movement explicit.
- Do not jump straight to bliss — begin with silence. You cannot imagine what you have never tasted. Start by feeling the whole space filled with silence; natural sounds (breeze, stream, birds) are harmonious and deepen rather than break it (silence is not mere soundlessness). Let silence grow until the sky itself feels like silence — then the first glimpse of bliss arises on its own. Only then expand that glimpse to fill the entire plenum.
- The basic law of every technique. Always begin from something you can actually feel, even slightly, or imagination stays false and nothing happens. (Buddha dropped the word ‘God’ as too remote a starting point and began from compassion, which everyone has tasted.) Silence is more accessible than bliss, bliss than the infinite — move step by step from the known toward the unknown.
- Why no human being nearby. A single human face instantly triggers the old reactive patterns; seeing no one, you forget you are ‘someone in society’ and simply are. This non-belonging — to any society, group, religion — is the prerequisite for the bliss body to expand beyond personal limits.