Why Do We Prefer Stories To Direct Experience?

Why do we prefer stories to direct experience?
We’ve been brought up with stories, and they’re all we talk about.

The media and the entertainment business are complete in stories. Religion is awash with stories, so it’s no wonder we’re living in stories which create our memories that we work from now. All conversations are stories about what we’ve done; we talk about this and that, going round in circles. This is our dream reality – stories obscure direct experience.

Academics debate and argue about the past, not realising that they are never in the present moment. This is delusion. Stories detach us from reality, and we become attached to an illusion. Even if the story is true, how does that benefit us? It’s still only something we choose to believe until we test it.

When we look around, all we see are dreamers and storytellers.

The moment we recognise that we’ve been caught up in self-promotion, we are free. In pure consciousness, appearances and recognition are simultaneous. This the unity of the two truths – the relative (whatever we relate to) and the ultimate (pure, conscious observation).

The path to enlightenment is that simple,
but it’s not easy as we get sidetracked by stories … and conflicts start.

The moment we repeat stories, we are lost, and it this that we ignore.