We can learn to see our self, not as our histories and stories and not as our established way of being, but rather as a dynamic opening that allows and enables the flow of life experience. Careful observation reveals the transitional nature of experience. In time our bodies are changing, thoughts come and go, emotions appear and disappear, nothing is established or fixed. Seeing our self as a dynamic tendency in time challenges and transforms the sense of separate self as established and fixed.

We can note that fear, irritability, impatience, criticism, and judgement—all the rubs of our life—are passing through a constricted psycho-physical space or opening. As we attend to our self in this way it becomes clear that more open conditions allow beauty, light, love, and kindness. With knowledge we can learn to regulate the openness of our condition. No longer bound by fixed identity we can enjoy the freedom of flexible knowing.