In Meditation, Experience Veils Our Being

In meditation, we turn our attention away from thoughts and feelings. We go back as it were to our being or to the fact of being aware. But in everyday life, experience obscures our being. So when we say, I am lonely, we overlook the I am and we emphasize the loneliness. You don't have to close your eyes again. And for the same reason that you don't need to turn off the movie to see the screen, the screen is shining in the movie, not just behind the movie. Likewise our being shines in the midst of experience, not justbehind experience.