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While jogging today for half an hour I was pondering about the importance of direct experience. Feedback is welcome. Sorry if you don't understand me. Sometimes it's hard to express yourself, sometimes I just don't understand deeply enough to communicate properly, sometimes it's just my poor English, but really it's everything together. What is a direct experience? Direct experience is everything. Everything that exists now for you. What do I mean? I mean feeling your ass on a computer chair or thinking about the direct experience is the direct experience; so, these things exist. Probably you don't have the direct experience of the moon, so it does not exist for you at the moment. Direct experience is what you experience by your sensors. Sensors like ears, eyes, mouth, body sensations, mind thinking. Experience is what you recognized by your sensors. Thinking about direct experience is direct experience. But there's a huge difference between thinking about direct experience and the direct experience. Let's have a small example to make it crystal clear: fucking a hot girl and thinking that you are fucking a hot girl. Do you see the difference? You say, yes, sure, it's easy. Yeah, it's easy in this particular example, but when you read something and then blindly believe that what's written is the truth, which happens to so many people, I suppose. So, what can we do? Do not read? That's a different side of the coin. When you just do something, when you think you are always right. The right thing is to find your own balance. Read something, check it by yourself, then read different source on the same issue, then check it again by your own direct experience. It's a continuous process. Don't stop. There is no perfect map for the territory. I mean, your map (aka your interpretation) will never be the territory (aka the experience itself). But to have the map as ideal as possible you have to find the balance between a direct experience (aka practice) and hearsay (aka theory) and never stop to improve your map (or your understanding of something). There is no depth in understanding, understanding is infinite. Have love. If you feel you don't understand what I wanted to say, don't worry − me too. I could post it somewhere else and this is not really a question, but to hit more page views...

Happiness is acceptance of the current moment. Just accept and you'll be happy.

To the "I Am"?

@Truth Addict right. Now the whole picture became more clear to me, thanks. It's another belief.

@Serotoninluv thanks, the reply reminded me of Goenka's words from Vipassana retreat. Something like: everything is impermanent, just observe, without any attachments. Anicca, Anicca, Anicca

@Serotoninluv now I want to fly to the USA and see the Grand Canyon. Thank you for sharing, I feel a lot of wisdom in your words. Just to make it crystal clear to me. Here you described what happens when the mind becomes attached and identified to the experience. What is the other side of it? How a person behaves after a nondual experience when the mind didn't attach and didn't identify to it? Not sure if this question makes sense but felt like to ask.

@Truth Addict thank you. Interesting, I haven't thought about "personal experience vs. impersonal theories" duality. They should be transcended, but maybe this topic is too deep for this post. I can learn how electrons were discovered, I don't want to repeat the same experiment with a vacuum tube. But to read reports on psychedelics and have own experience of psychedelics is a completely different story. I can't grasp the essence of experience just by reading reports.

You raised interesting observation, thank you. I think so too. So, what you are proposing is to be more critical to personal experience? Let the interpretation of the personal experience go? Yet the personal experience is the key to growth.

Leo, are you aware how Infinite Intelligence created this bug? It was inevitable, the best configuration of reality, right?

@Truth Addict could be. But thank you guys for the input. I think it was helpful.

knowing = understanding = being aware? I am stuck in contemplating what is understanding. Please share your ideas.

@Nahm from the theory of everything book: So, Understanding is the recognition of "I Am".

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haha, amazing

@Truth Addict I'll try to come up with what concerns me. As @Serotoninluv said there are different forms of understanding. I think you are trying to say the same thing differently. Pardon me if I interpret what you said wrongly. I am interested in... let's say I say: I understand God, or I understand reality, or I understand consciousness, or I understand what I really want. What does it really mean? How can we check that? It looks like it's intuitive form of undestanding... I don't know.

Thanks @Truth Addict Now I see and I don't know

So Infinete intelligence = Understanding. Okay, I can tap to Infinite intelligence using psychedelics for example. But then to integrate the insights I need to use finite intelligence. I have a feeling that finite intelligence and infinite is the One. Spiritual pepper shaker warning lol

I just was listening an audiobook and someone said: so you understand this and that, so you can behave such and such in that situation. And then I realized that I don't know what understanding is. Probably, in the audiobook context - understanding = behavior change. Anyhow, there is no meaning in anything, so why not? I don't see why you think your question is better.

Sounds great. Few thoughts came to mind: Understanding = Love It's not possible to understand Understanding

That all makes sense to me. Thanks for sharing. I am interested in intuitive form of understanding. Probably, it just is.

Hm, thanks, need to re-watch then.

Thanks, what is 'make sense'?

Interesting, thanks. Leo has "What is Love" episode. Where is the episode on what is understanding?