Potential of Insight

Insight gained from the direct approach of meditation – ie: directly examining who or what you are – can fundamentally change your understanding of yourself and reality.

This insight (or awakening) is the realization that Our Default Point of View is not who we really are. Instead, we see that, experientially, We are a point of view, not a separate thing.

The insight often comes in three distinct steps:

• The first is the basic recognition that you are not the narrative. Your emotions and thoughts are not you, they are separate things that you observe. This is a negative realization, you are not what you thought you were.
• The second is the realization that you are the subjective presence; the perceiver, not the perceived. This comes from looking for the meditator, and realizing that they cannot be found. This is a positive insight, you are the point of view, the stage on which things appear. (The pure subjectivity is sometimes referred to as emptiness, non-objectivity)
• The third insight is that which perceives is not and cannot be independent of what is perceived. They are in a one-to-one correspondence. (Often called non-dual, one is the negative space of the other) Ying-and-yang. You cannot have the background alone without the foreground.