At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities.
We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
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