UnbornTao

I wanted to start a shared contemplation with you: What is experience?

What would you say your experience of this moment is? How would you go about describing it? Where would you put your attention on?

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We say that existence is - independent of us humans or sentient beings as a whole. As experience is ascribed to us animals and perhaps other living beings, wouldn't you say that Being precedes and allows for experience? The latter seems to require living beings for it to occur. So, not separate, but distinct - perhaps. Anyway, we don't know what Being is. Granted, I don't want to move the discussion in the direction of speculation - despite my attempts to the contrary.

So we agree that we are puzzled by this topic. @Anton Rogachevski What do you think?

Is > direct experience > process (self is included here). Being might be absolute. I'm just making something up here. When you say "a being," it makes me wonder whether you're actually referring to 'self' - to what we think we are - since you seem to be holding being as an entity. Being could also be thought of as what is, prior to the existence of an entity. Impersonal, in a sense. Maybe. It seems that what we generally mean by 'experience' is perceiving something - "I see the pineapple, so I'm experiencing it."

@Anton Rogachevski ☝️ Sounds good! Thanks. Let's keep going at it.

What's purpose?

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And everyone does!

The purpose of this journal is to share questions, humor, miscellaneous creative content, and raw reflections on personal empowerment and consciousness. My goals are to deepen my experiential understanding of these topics, improve my communication skills, have fun, and help others see things in a new light.

So we finally found out, and now everyone's absolutely clear on the nature of experience.

I don't think you do, actually.

I use the phone version occasionally to look up certain files, so I don't personally need online syncing for my phone as much. It depends on how you use it. Obsidian Sync costs $4/month now. You might want to look into Syncthing or AutoSync. Dropbox might also be an option, or iCloud if you use Apple devices. @OmniNaut's advice sounds legit, too. There are also plugins that might offer similar functionality: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git

Is it a state then, as you said? Try to put your experience into words. Great to hear.

Should be free unless you pay for Obsidian Sync.

Those are circumstances and actions, wouldn't you say? Reread the entire segment.

It is! And accurate.

It's the one I use for my commonplace book, so I agree.

Thanks, Google!

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