The distinction between happening as arising in the causal matrix of reality, that is, of objective thing-ness (which is the very much greater part of the experienced) and happenings that arise from you, or from will, and so are experienced as warm and wet and close to home, that is, ineradicably stained with 'youness', subjective, so that their causal consequences belong to you etc. There is an idea that if the (small in measure but high in significance) part of experience that is of the second type could be entirely mapped into the first type ("seeing is happening...", "thinking that you are seeing is happening..." etc.) then this would do away with that nuisance, the ego, the 'I', or whatever it is called. This whole way of thinking is predicated on that distinction, on different kinds of happening, some more and others less real. The problem with this is that the first kind of happening is a useful creation of the second type of happening, while the second type of happening is only what is not the first kind, or is only the error or unsolvable part of it. Does happening even happen? And if so, where and how?