Realization Is Not an Experience
La realización no es una experiencia
A student asks what it actually means to "realize" something, after the teacher cautions against turning descriptions of realization into a goal.
Realization Is Not an Experience
A student asks what it actually means to "realize" something, after the teacher cautions against turning descriptions of realization into a goal.
Do you want to say more about that, please?
The trap of secondhand descriptions
You will have heard and read all kinds of experiences of realization, and that can become the thing you are trying to get to. The experience becomes an object that the mind constructs as a state you need to attain. You will be ruminating over what it is, how it should be, what it looks like, all based on imagination, on anecdotes, on descriptions from people today and in the past. Those are actually consequences, side effects, of realizing something that you could realize in the next ten seconds.
What does it mean to realize something?
Seeing something for what it is
That is a good question. I am talking about seeing something for what it is.