What Is Experience?
What is and what isn’t experience?
Experience: practical contact with and observation of events. The knowledge and skill acquired by a period of practical understanding of something.
Going through a routine isn’t experiencing; it is doing something (everything) by rote, in a vacant state. This is vertical thinking, which prefers to rely on external data and facts in order avoid failure. It never has the complete picture – just a selective view, and is logical to a point.
This is the exoteric approach, where we think, say and do the same things until death. We live in a limited cycle of existence to avoid stepping out of our comfort zone.
Lateral thinking considers all possibilities, and is the full experience, moving outside the comfort zone into no man’s land. The esoteric approach of knowing nothing starts with a clean sheet of spontaneous pure consciousness, pure knowingness.
When we truly experience something,
we can adapt and share it,
realising that one solution does not fit all.
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I understand what you are saying here. Sometimes, I struggle with distinguishing between what you refer to here as ‘spontaneous pure consciousness, pure knowingness’ and an impulse which could be a result of the conditioned mind exercising its force of ‘acquired habitual’ preference (which could pretend to be instinct, but on closer examination can be seen to be originating from ego). How in the moment of action do we discern one from the other?
Great question.
Spontaneousness has no after taste, as the next moment of spontaneousness is present.
In other words, ego clings.
Tony
So living and acting moment by moment…fresh and new, is spontaneous from ‘pure knowing’. Anything that ‘extends’ in time at psychological level is likely suspicious (coming from ego).
Yes, but we need a little ego, a social I to function.
Tony