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I came across a concept of “direct experience” with out going through normal meaning-making structures. Anyone have more details on this?
by ismail 6y ago
I came across a concept of “direct experience” with out going through normal meaning-making structures. Anyone have more details on this?
- mr_overalls 6y agoAn emphasis on direct experience can be found throughout Buddhism, usually in the context of emphasizing its utility, while downplaying the usefulness of intellectual elaborations on Buddhist ideas. I.e., it's much better to have a single, concrete, personal experience of emptiness/non-self in meditation, than to read several volumes of Buddhist logic. If you want to trot out the doctrinal stuff, Dharmadhātu probably what you're looking for - it's the label given to purified mind in its natural state, free of obscurations. It is the essence-quality or nature of mind, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmadhatu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmadhatu
- thinkingemote 6y agoFor hallucinations there's been some research on the brain that found that what we see is more imagined than actually there. Our brains kind of fill in the gaps by hallucinating images.
- nazgulnarsil 6y agoThe easiest way to point to the distinction is to ask the question: in your direct experience, who came first, you or your parents?