Mi'sen

For sure you can feel cosmic when you keep your attention on awareness w/out objects, but I’d contend that’s a samadhi effect as the brain tries to parse aconceptual awareness as it’s experienced.

I think it can be an ongoing effect, which is why a lot of realizers can stick with the cosmic interpretation of their own awareness.

this is a crucial point. different meditators may experience the same/similar meditation-related mental arising. some will seek to elaborate on their experience, perhaps even reify it. others simply recognize it as mental arising and can thus let it go.

thus the common instruction to allow mental arising to come and go, without elaborating upon it, making it some "special thing"