How to know if a realization has actually occurred?

[KMB4222]

I was meditating the other day (sitting with eyes open), and after about 20 minutes I asked myself "what am I I?" Within a few moments, I realized that everything I knew about my personality was based on ideas, assumptions, conditioning, thoughts, reactionary behaviours, etc. It was a very emotional moment for me. 

So now my question is: How do I know this experience was real? How do I know that it wasn't just my mind/ego making me believe in the experience? I've been reading a book that talks about how we really don't know who we are. How do I know that I actually had this realization, rather than just taking on what I have been reading because my ego knows I'm seeking?

I've heard that it's best to let these experiences speak for themselves, and not analyze them too much, because that's just the mind trying to figure it out. 

Thank you, 

KMB

[snowleopard]

2 hours ago, KMB4222 said:

How do I know that it wasn't just my mind/ego making me believe in the experience?

The one that is worried about that is another egoic self-identity. Absent that, who or what is worried about that?

[Shin]

2 hours ago, KMB4222 said:

I was meditating the other day (sitting with eyes open), and after about 20 minutes I asked myself "what am I I?" Within a few moments, I realized that everything I knew about my personality was based on ideas, assumptions, conditioning, thoughts, reactionary behaviours, etc. It was a very emotional moment for me. 

So now my question is: How do I know this experience was real? How do I know that it wasn't just my mind/ego making me believe in the experience? I've been reading a book that talks about how we really don't know who we are. How do I know that I actually had this realization, rather than just taking on what I have been reading because my ego knows I'm seeking?

I've heard that it's best to let these experiences speak for themselves, and not analyze them too much, because that's just the mind trying to figure it out. 

Thank you, 

KMB

You can't, it's already a memory.

Unless you can reproduce the experience now (or it has become natural), you can't know.

[Saumaya]

On 13/02/2018 at 11:46 PM, KMB4222 said:

I was meditating the other day (sitting with eyes open), and after about 20 minutes I asked myself "what am I I?" Within a few moments, I realized that everything I knew about my personality was based on ideas, assumptions, conditioning, thoughts, reactionary behaviours, etc. It was a very emotional moment for me. 

So now my question is: How do I know this experience was real? How do I know that it wasn't just my mind/ego making me believe in the experience? I've been reading a book that talks about how we really don't know who we are. How do I know that I actually had this realization, rather than just taking on what I have been reading because my ego knows I'm seeking?

I've heard that it's best to let these experiences speak for themselves, and not analyze them too much, because that's just the mind trying to figure it out. 

Thank you, 

KMB

No experience is real, there is no if. As far as your experience is concerned...it seems like a good step forward

[Vingger]

A realization is free ticket to the root of your being,

is not a series of moments,when you are there, in realization,you can really smell the true fragrance of the moment,

it's a flowering

Edited February 16, 2018 by Vingger