Experiencing is magical, involving great curiosity and wonderment. However, most people never consider what i’m about to say — and it may seem rather absurd, at first — but it may also be prudent to often be beyond regular experience. In regular experience as most know it, the “experiencer” is separate from the experience. However, such a notion is largely illusory; the experiencer is not separate from the experience. The experiencer is the experience. Please see it! And all regular experience is limited. Regular experience involves recognition (i.e., re-cognition), is fragmentary, accumulative, and time-bound.

If you purposefully practice being beyond experience, like, for instance, by sitting cross-legged, with the eyes closed… you are still (whether you admit it or not) in deception and illusory effort. Existing beyond regular, mundane experience takes no effort; one cannot do it by an act (i.e., reaction) of definite will. It can take place at any time of the day, unplanned/unrehearsed. It is by no means a form of “spacing out” or a lack of awareness. Ordinary experience — as most people do it — requires recognition (via the field of the known); the known is limited and time-bound. We were never taught about this, and (for most) it never entered our minds. We look through (and “as”) psychological screens that we had learned; they were molded into us. Multitudes of people go from one experience — involving mere recognition — to another, perpetually and habitually reacting. Real wisdom, on the other hand, may be far more dynamic than that.