Experience is static. Even if an experience seems new and profoundly different, it still expresses the same separation and division involving the “experiencer” and the “experience.” However, as we’ve said before, it may be that the “experiencer” is the “experience,” not something separate from it. That separation is conditioning; it is the learned past repeating the same-old-thing (even when something supposedly new is happening).
Many people want to experience enlightenment, nirvana, or, for example, some wonderful vacation phenomena. Such desires are extensions of age-old patterns. Such patterns involve conditioning, and such patterns are static and full of illusory limitation. Denying “experience” in life is not the answer either. Few ever transcend beyond being stuck in this stagnant quagmire. Few minds, unfortunately, have the passion and intelligence to truly transcend mindless division, separation, and conflict. Enlightenment is beyond the limited realm of ordinary experience. It’s beyond what can be achieved through effort; it’s beyond what can be ‘wished for.’ It’s beyond limited senses and thoughts. (What was written here might seem far-fetched or impossible; it isn’t.) We need to drop being slaves to conflict, separation, indifference, and mediocrity.
