nm - Reality is not an experience

[Guest guest]

From " I Am That "

 

Q: At what point does one experience reality?

 

NM: Experience is of change, it comes and goes. Reality is not an

event, it cannot be experienced. It is not perceivable in the same

way as an event is perceivable.

 

If you wait for an event to take place, for the coming of reality,

you will wait forever, for reality neither comes nor goes. It is to

be perceived, not expected. It is not to be prepared for and

anticipated.

 

But the very longing and search for reality is the movement,

operation, action of reality. All you can do is to grasp the central

point, that reality is not an event and does not happen and whatever

happens, whatever comes and goes, is not reality.

 

See the event as event only, the transient as transient, experience

as mere experience and you have done all you can.

 

Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armored against it, as

you were when you gave reality to events and experiences. But as

soon as there is some like or dislike, you have drawn a screen.