{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Steps to Seeing Reality","title":"Dimension 3: External and Internal Objects","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2862,"description":"What exactly are we meeting when we experience life?\nIs it only the world around us—or is there something more?\nIn 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.\nWe 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.\nPerhaps seeing reality is not only about meeting the world around us.\nPerhaps it is also about recognizing the continual unfolding of experience within.\nJoin us as we continue exploring the dimensions of seeing reality, one step at a time.\nApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/first-steps-to-seeing-reality/id1896784970","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3pdtk-B4nSdfRuuwh3xQsi4N4WuCZ9AJ3schQlhoUvg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMDYy/NjkxNGNlZjQ5ZWI3/ZTM4YTc4ZThlMzkw/MTNiZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}