Experience Is Our Currency

Our ‘currency’ – our jewel of wisdom – is experience. If we don’t have the same experiences as other people, there is little or no communication. If we can only judge from our previous experiences, this influences the experience we’re having right now.

When we have the same currency as others, we only validate one another, and stay within our circle. Even if we’re attending the same retreat as others, we will all experience the lectures differently. Some people are religious and some are academic; very few are experiential, and actually meet minds. This is why retreats are held in silence – there’s less conflict.

This currency is the levels of understanding, or yanas.
https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Nine_yanas.

How do we upgrade experience?

There are many reasons why we want to upgrade experience: wearing the present position out; noticing obsessions and hostility; sentimentality; that blank look; a lack of communication …
Dissatisfacton can either bless us with another addiction, or bless us with an open door because there is something missing. That something missing is genuine experience, without reliance on the words of others.

Jesus said,
“Woe to you lawyers!
For you have taken away the key of knowledge;
you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”

This is a reference to the writers who give human ‘interpretation’ to the scriptures, often in contradiction to them.

The less we project, the more we see, and the more our wealth grows.