Words Are Symbols Of Experience

Words are symbols of experience:
Make sure they are your experience
rather than someone else’s,
even the Buddha.

Words are symbols of experience. If we do not have the experience, the words we repeat are meaningless. Words are an acquisition, a theory. If we only rely on the words, we are guessing, and that becomes our belief system that affects our behaviour and life.

Experiencing the meaning of words, we should be content in our understanding. Unfortunately, our mind and brain fixate on ideas = words, and that creates a bias when looking at anything. In other words, it’s our self-programming.

To be released from programming, we need to see clearly. That is the freedom we seek. In the precise moment now, we are actually in no man’s land, free from criticism, cynicism and beliefs; it is that moment of not knowing whether it’s hot or cold. What we miss or ignore is the presence of knowingness – in other words, pure consciousness. 🙂 That is our true reality.

We don’t have to kick ourselves for clinging to meaningless words. We may feel stupid in the moment when this is recognised, but it is the freedom we seek. Again, this is merely the mirror and the reflection = pure consciousness and thoughts are a unity. That is non-duality.

If we only look outside for the truth, we will never realise that which is looking is the truth. Out there is merely a fantasy, a projection in the mind which we fixate upon, ‘grooving’ pathways in the brain. The brain is our hard drive and the mind the software; consciousness is the reader, and pure consciousness is wisdom-compassion that adapts effortlessly.

Words are symbols of experience:
Make sure they are your experience
rather than someone else’s,
even the Buddha.