Trusting direct experience

You must answer your own questions.You can’t lean on what it says in a book, or ask anyone else. For example, find out for yourself whether you can find an inside and outside, whether you can find any actual separation anywhere between what you call yourself and not-yourself. Talking about it sounds conceptual because it is. A concept is not the direct knowing. It’s a mental representation of what may have been direct knowing. Concepts are useless. The only thing that helps is the direct experience of not finding a border, for example, of looking and looking and not finding one anywhere. We don’t trust our direct experience because we’ve been taught not to trust it. As children, we saw the world as it was. But it was made very clear to us that we were naive, and what to see instead. We were told our direct experience was not how things really are, and told exactly what to believe instead. So now, when we actually look, we can’t find those things they told us, and we doubt our own seeing! The doubts are due to deep and successful conditioning, it’s normal. And the only solution is to look again, like a child would. Then you will know, and it won’t matter what anyone says. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailynonduality.substack.com