What exactly are we meeting when we experience life?

Is it only the world around us—or is there something more?

In this episode of First Steps to Seeing Reality, we explore the third dimension of seeing: External and Internal Objects. We begin by asking a simple question: What is an object? From there, we discover that our experience is shaped not only by what appears in the external world—a person, a sound, a broken vase—but also by what immediately appears within us: thoughts, emotions, memories, sensations, fears, and expectations.

We explore how external events can become triggering objects, setting in motion an unfolding of internal objects that can continue long after the original event has passed. Through everyday examples, we distinguish between what is happening around us and what is unfolding within us, and we introduce the metaphor of the river of objects—a continuous flow of experience moving through awareness.

Perhaps seeing reality is not only about meeting the world around us.

Perhaps it is also about recognizing the continual unfolding of experience within.

Join us as we continue exploring the dimensions of seeing reality, one step at a time.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/first-steps-to-seeing-reality/id1896784970