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| crow | Nov 18 2016, 02:36 PM Post #1 |
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Experience is always with you. Once something is experienced, the experience never goes away, is never not-experienced. This makes experience very different from learning - or being taught - something. Learning anything, without having experienced it, is a phantom of the thing you now think you know about. Yes, you say: I know about that. And you do. But you have not experienced it, and so, have not experienced it. Unless you have experienced a good many things, you will struggle to discern the difference. But the difference is profound. People collect things. Everybody does it. Stuff. It may be useful, somewhere down the road. The young don't know what a trap this can be, not yet having collected much stuff. Only after many years does the sheer weight and volume become an issue. Thoughts, ideas of knowledge, what one thinks one knows, all classify as 'stuff', and become piled up, layer upon layer, over the years. You start out simply collecting, giving no thought to organizing for efficiency. Stuff is easy to find, at first, but becomes ever more difficult to find, over time. At some point, the junk becomes exactly that: junk. A mountain of extraneous uselessness that serves no purpose. Without this stuff, one is free to respond to the moment, intuitively, as if each moment were new. The secret being that each moment is - in fact - new. None have been experienced before. And applying bits of obsolescent junk to the moment ensures that you will not live it. Living each moment is what this site is about. Being completely present, moment by moment. Why is this important? Because it is something few people ever learn to do. It is living. |
| "Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space. | |
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