There is one question which is bugging me....not just academic but as part of on the ground practice. I quote you as saying: "By turning our attention to observing these internal mechanisms we are breaking this habitual identification. We are creating space around our experience rather than being lost in it. We are learning to experience ourselves as the observer of experience and distinct from it." Some teachings talk about a witness consciousness but for others it is a kind

"You must have faith that the original Buddha mind that is realized and that which realizes the original Buddha mind are not different." Zen master Bankei In this case how much distance in measurable space is there between the "two"? In this case of "no distance", how much time must occur before they "merge"? A monk asked his Zen master: "How can I know my Buddha Mind?" The master replied: "You can't know your Buddha Mind, because that which knows IS your Buddha Mind." How m

In this strange and fractured time there is still peace to be found and respite from overwhelm, and a slipping out and away from the cares of the world and of oneself. We all have a home to rest in, a sanctuary untouched by events, a hidden cave that can restore and sustain us. I’m taking time to rest in its inky quietness, and wishing peace and wellbeing and respite to all.

Whether you know it or not, your seemingly real experience of the subject/object dichotomy (I’m in here and everything else is out there) is an illusion. When that illusion dissolves you will discover that there is no in and no out: there is only One, and you are it.