TA. Sakshi bhava

Observer doesn’t become the observed, in meditation or at any other time. Observer already is the observed, always.

There’s no distinction, no separation. No ‘duality.’

Sometimes in meditation (and for many, spontaneously in waking life) the internal mental narrative becomes so silent, and what is revealed (to no one) is there never was a separate ‘self’ observing, or analyzing or judging anything…just Being, just What Is.

Then, that non-separate, radiant oneness of Being is all there is.

No subject (observer,) no object (the observed,) just the Flow of Life, happening to no one.

If “you experience that ‘mentally’ or as a sensation of feeling Oneness, it will not last…because “you” (subject) are still there.

You cannot control making the experience ‘self-less.’ No amount of meditation, self-inquiry or any other practices can cause that. Cause-&-effect are as illusory as subject-object.

That said, it can happen.

Indeed, Buddha said it’s happening to all dream-characters 8,000 times every day. It’s just that “our” primary function is to keep dreaming, so we don’t notice it.

If & when that falling away of the illusory ego-mind-self ever happens - remember, you absolutely can’t cause it - all that will be left is The Beloved, This, What Is, and “you” will never again question what is meant by “observer is the observed.”