UP/Yoga/Zen/Dhjana is a negative thing, a complete psychological negation of everything, that means basically not to want anything, not to know anything and not to have anything at all (psychologically). Or in other words not to be attached to anything at all.

There IS such a state of the brain and it's the greatest thing in the world, the greatest Freedom, all burden is gone. And it is the absolute NECESSITY, i.e. it's the essence. Otherwise what you think is your "life" is a little phony tragedy only :) You think you know something but you don't know anything for real.. You only think so.

It's nothingness, void that is the same void that is the Universe.

What does it mean if we are holding something (psychologically), something so precious to us that we don't want to lose it (including "God" and all such funny ideas :)?

Find out! Do not believe me. Carry the burden, until it drops all of itself.

All that we're holding is suffering, fear, anguish and misfortune :) And it clogs the brain, the worry, the groping, the busy-ness. A yoke for a beast of burden.. :)

 Patandzali and maybe the Buddha(or some of his disciples who wrote about the "other shore"? But I'm not sure of this), thought there are two shores. This what IS and that what should be. But real life is not like that.. In real life there is only this one shore.. And we all have already reached it, but we think otherwise!

 Trance/hypnosis is OK, in terms of it being without conflict. "Concentration" is "NOT OK" because concentration is a FALSE concept, it does not really exist because there is effort in it, so the horizontal conflict (the concentrator trying to be concentrated). What goes by the name of "concentration" is a struggle, although the struggle of "concentration" can maybe change into hypnosis (but those two cannot exist at the same time).

So it can be said that UP/Yoga/Dhjana/Zen is the whole unobstructed movement in and out of hypnosis/trance and what is NOT It is the struggle to get "there" or "somewhere" called concentration, effort, horizontal conflict, goal, purpose, end in view, the idol, desire, fear, etc.

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EDIT: Oh, OK, hypnosis can be physically dangerous! Like in a car crash or a "crime of passion".. So yeah, I guess one better watch out! :)

.. When we DO something (in physical movement and action).

In stillness and silence it's not a problem.

In the case of a movie it's being "lost" in the META Process of the story of the movie and visual/auditory stimuli. Not a problem really..

In the case of a Crime of Passion the Meta Process, acute emotion, activates a highly injurious act.

And in the case of causing a car crash, it's just being "lost" in pure META Process (story/images told produced the brain).

The Universe does not have to strain Itself, It doesn't make any effort at all. It does not know any effort.

Formerly there was a thought that it's wrong that some sound escaped, like a sound of a "car", oh, it escaped me! (bloody hell! :). But it's ONE SOUND OF NOTHING. It's undivided. The sound of a car is only a concept for an object (subject-object). There is no "sound of "car" in Unitary Perception, except with the whole movement of Nothing, one unitary movement. There IS no "distraction" :) 

I don't know if there's really an object like a "car" or not, I don't know anything :) It DOES NOT MATTER, I don't have to USE the bloody car now ;) When we are USING things, the knowledge is USEFUL, otherwise, not!

The "shepherds" want to control it, but it cannot be controlled.

In fact it doesn't matter if it goes away or comes back, if there is a "trance"/hypnosis or not bc in trance there is no horizontal conflict (the split into subject-object) either, so It can go in and out. Nothingness - Universe. Nothingness - Universe.

The mind has to go where it wants, like the wind.

The key thing is that there is no attempt to control anything, no "controller", it flows unobstructed. The "trance"/hypnosis is not a problem! The problem is to fight it, to choose "this" (like "UP") over something "else" (like "trance"/"hypnosis")..

 UP, Zazen, Dhjana, Yoga, etc. is not really an "attempt" at anything. "Attempt" suggests a positive action. But there is no knowledge of attempting anything and no counting on anything.

 The best place for the monks without a monastery to be found by UP, Dhjana, Yoga, etc. is to let everything go and be completely silent and still without any effort at all, not being occupied by anything at all, not trying anything, without any expectation, not for a goal, not on any purpose.

If someone asked me today what is "UP", "Zen", "God", "Dhjana", "Yoga"etc. i could say "a yoke for an ass" :) And it might be the best answer, I don't know :)

But it's a good answer only for the "monks without a monastery"..