Meditation and Trance - What Happens When We're in Trance?

In trance we lose touch with the actual vulnerability that's current in us. We're not touching our own vulnerability. If you can't touch the vulnerability, you can't feel compassion. There's a woman who is practicing Buddhist meditation in prison. She never missed a session during the eight week course. And at the final class they did a go round saying, well, what did you like or what touched you or what did you learn? And she spoke last and she said, well, I really liked that poem about the pirate.