The Importance of Direct Experience in Awakening

If you’ve been hanging around in awakening circles, you might’ve heard the term direct experience or actual experience thrown around.

Direct experience points to what is experienced in this moment.

Not in thought. Not in the future or in the past. Right here, right now.

Direct experience is simply:

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Then there’s thought, which is often an obstacle when inquiring into the sense of self, separate self or ego.

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