The Two Perspectives

The practice centers on learning to observe  mental experience under two aspects and eventually to merge them. 

Mind-view: 

This view focuses on the mind itself as the "space of awareness" in which every mental event occurs.  This view presupposes the skill (learned earlier in the method) to distinguish between awareness and its objects. 

Event-view: 

This view focuses on the actual content of experience, the objects.  Thoughts, feelings, sensory perceptions, and mental activities as they happen moment by moment.

The Training Process

Stage 1: Learning to Distinguish

Initially, meditators learn basic concentration while beginning to notice these two aspects of experience. 

One starts recognising that there's both "what you're experiencing" (event view) and "the part of you that's aware of the experience" (mind view). 

Stage 2: Active Switching

Students now deliberately shift or switch  their focus between event view and mind view: 

•  bringing the mind space to the foreground of awareness itself

•  bringing the mental events into the foreground while holding awareness-space in the background. 

This process of switching is then repeated frequently and quickly. 

Stage 3: Realising Unity

Eventually, through the repeated switching of views, the perspectives merge into one single view.