What Shifts Is the Belief in What I Am
Lo que cambia es la creencia en lo que soy
The teacher points out that the absorption described in meditation is always already the case, and that what changes is not experience itself but the belief about what we are.
What Shifts Is the Belief in What I Am
The teacher points out that the absorption described in meditation is always already the case, and that what changes is not experience itself but the belief about what we are.
The absorption I was describing in the meditation, the one you found very powerful: you could start to recognize that it is always the case. What shifts is actually the belief in what I am, from a thing to no belief at all. Or it could be something more subtle, which is often the case: the belief shifts from being a body-mind to being consciousness or spaciousness, which becomes a more subtle object.
The shift in perception
But when that shift happens, our perception, our sense of the experience, shifts. It is like looking at the vase and suddenly seeing the faces. There is a feeling of, "Oh, there's something else here." But it was always there. You were always looking at it.