The Bubble You're Imagining
La burbuja que estás imaginando
A student describes the experience of a separate self dissolving into a unified awareness, and the teacher points out that the separation was never real to begin with.
The Bubble You're Imagining
A student describes the experience of a separate self dissolving into a unified awareness, and the teacher points out that the separation was never real to begin with.
It's like two bubbles that suddenly pop and just become one. Here's everything outside, and here's the thing which is observing, and they are two bubbles very close to each other. Then suddenly they go "plop" and just become one.
That's a metaphor of what you imagine could happen. But that's already how it is. What's happening is that you're imagining a bubble. You're having sensations that you are calling "the bubble self" and pushing everything outside.
The separation was never real
It's quite literally mind-bending.
Yes. And they've been doing a lot of studies with fMRI, where they're seeing all the neurological changes in this process.