A Buddhist saying tells us that we can never cross the same stream twice. The stream may look the same but the water is constantly changing. The lesson for me is to assume that I am in touch with what's really happening when I am actually disconnected.
So, when I woke this morning next to my partner I did so for the first time today. Now it would be easy to see waking in my own bed as the same old thing I do every morning. But then I would miss the opportunity to experience the moment as a unique moment and I would soon be drifting off into daydreaming my way through the day, disconnected with reality, not noticing what was really going on.
It can be the same when we describe things; we can become separated from reality. Because our words and ideas don't capture reality at all. One of my most pronounced spiritual experiences was in our local park in late Spring. I was struck by the realisation that all the leaves on the hundreds of trees that I could see could each be different. Not just "leaves" as a concept but hundreds of thousands of individual leaves, each of which could be experienced in its own right.
Awareness comes from experiencing things directly - not from filtering reality from words and ideas
Because of this, I don't talk much about God or about how I experience God.
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