The Fallacy: We Learn From Our Experience

The fallacy: we learn from our experience.
The truth: we learn from experiencing and understanding.

This could be the difference between left brain and right brain dominance.:-) If we actually learnt from our experiences, we’d all be enlightened. We aren’t. We merely regurgitate and replay the same old experiences, panicking to maintain the status quo at whatever level suits our set of ideas/beliefs.

Learning
is seeing where we are going wrong.
Evolving
is seeing where we are going wrong.

The fallacy is adopting a certain number of ideas that fixes our programming for that lifetime, and the deception is assuming that this is all there is. That is what thoughts do – they limit experiencing, by repeating the same pattern of behaviour.

Thinking is different, as thinking is in the present moment, whereas thoughts are memories from our past.

When we are thinking, we are visualising the sequence of events or words to do a job. If we merely repeat others’ words – even the Buddha’s – without experiencing and understanding, we sound hollow.
Thoughts rely on vertical thinking which maintains the same limiting results.

Visualising a problem in the moment now is lateral thinking, which broadens possibilities … maybe there is another approach?

We can take note of past experiences without them smothering the present moment, when we can watch our self-construct not letting go. That is when and why we feel uncomfortable because we cling to memories, fixed ideas and behaviour, when the present demands clarity and no panicking.

We / consciousness don’t realise how tight the hold is that this self-constructed-illusion of ideas has on us. When we do realise it, it’s both a terrible and wonderful shock.

Terrible?
We realise that we have been acting through
an acquired, traumatised persona all our life
– and so has everyone else.

Wonderful?
Consciousness is now released from this illusion.