Shinzen Young, a Vipassana teacher I studied with online, describes this as “learning to live as the wave, instead of the particle.”

Consciousness has no idea of “I,” of ego. It has no idea of one’s separation from existence. It does not know any barrier. It knows no boundaries—it is one with existence, it is in a deep at-onement. There is no conflict between the individual and the whole. One is simply flowing into the whole, and the whole is flowing into one. It is like