The witness isn’t confined to meditation cushions; it often appears in small, familiar scenes. You might notice irritation rising in traffic and, for a split second, see it as irritation rather than as “my truth.” Or you might wake from a stressful dream and recognize that the mind was manufacturing a world, while something unchanged was present to know it.
These glimpses matter because they make the teaching experiential rather than abstract. Gradually, the gap between stimulus and reaction can widen, not through suppression, but through recognition: the mind produces content, and awareness remains open enough to see it. [...]
