' Perspective Shift '...

And then there's the experience of no separate self and that's something different.

The experience of no separate self often quite suddenly it's as if the bottom falls away and that sense of being the center, you know that center that's behind your eyes, there's a feel of being the center of your experience as if there's some sort of little entity that's in there having all the experiences.

If you've never had this happen, just imagine that that sense of center like the bottom just fell out, the ground just fell away from it and all of a sudden your experience was no longer of being a kind of center, that the center just opens up.

So of course there's a realization with that, the realization of this is that the separate self isn't really have any entityhood to it, any center to it. also the experience of the whole thing just, just falling away.

And that's a kind of, in spiritual teachings, often its overstated I think, its overstated in a way that's necessarily frightening.

They'll talk about the annihilation of the ego, sometimes use this very dramatic sort of language. Annihilation conjures up all sorts of frightening images. It's almost more like annihilation in the way like your dream that you had last night, in the middle of the night, that dream has been annihilated.

You are not having it now. But to use the word annihilation would be a little strong I think and we don't have to think of it on such dramatic terms.

It just falls away and now you're in a different perspective..

What seems so real in the middle of the night last night in your dream where your dreams seemed as real as this moment all of a sudden from this perspective you can look back at last night and go, 'Oh.. well.

I had such and such a dream, you now it was just a dream. It wasn't as real as it seemed like it was.

The reason you can say that, the reason you can talk like that is because when we wake up from a dream we go from one reality to another reality, from a pseudo reality to a deeper reality.

That's what I mean by a view, by a change of view, a change of perspective.

Its not that the entity in your dream needs to understand something.

It's a change of view you being whoever you played in last night's dream, you are no longer playing it at this moment.

And that's fundamentally a change of view.

It's not a deductive understanding, it's just a perspective shift that you have when you wake up in the morning or you wake up in the middle of the night from your dream.


- Adyashanti