My experience is any technique can transcend the technique and that's the meditative state. Prior to that it's practice.

At some point subject and object merge or are no longer distinguishable. That's when time falls out as in a particularly fruitful sitting that seems to end just after it begins. It's like a flow state. In Patanjali's Yoga Sutras that merging of subject and object is the first level of Samadhi.