Left-Hand Drive Meme
To imagine what it is to shift your perspective from the “I”-centered consciousness to ego-less, think of driving on the opposite side of the road.
When I went to Proviciales, an island in the Turks and Caicos, I rented a car. It was a fairly standard Ford automobile, with left-hand drive. But in this formerly British colony, driving is on the left side. So, I was driving on the left side, but with the steering wheel on the left side–the wrong side for this situation.
It was the wrong meme. Driving on the left requires a right-hand-drive car, and vice versa. The meme was, “driver on the left”. But the driver did not work out too well on the left. “Driver on the right” was the right meme for this situation.
There was a lot more to it than that, of course, It just didn’t “feel right” driving on the left with a left-hand-drive auto, because it wasn’t right (no pun intended). The whole thing felt out of joint, and really was.
This is the problem in trying to shift from the “I” conscousness, to ego-less. At first, it just doesn’t “feel right”.