Insights by Sugandha
We have probably all had, during our lives, an experience of ‘what is’, consciously or unconsciously.
When we consciously start seeking, some things start to shift; our perspective seems to become wider and then so are the challenges and questionings that start to arise.
In this parallel journey, things start to fall apart. Layers of conditionings, patterns that feel like structures on which our personality is built, start to break down like pillars holding up some kind of construction… and with that, spaciousness comes…
Some of the experiences we may encounter can be lovely, a sense of expansion, peace, bliss. Even the experience of using a broom can feel like a holy experience, and this is not a Zen cliché, in that moment, it is real. Simply putting plates back in their place can almost feel as if you were carrying a child, with all your love, back to their bed…
Some of the experiences can be terrifying. When your body is filled with fear and you start disintegrating, there is more space between every cell, and the space becomes wider and wider until you no longer perceive yourself as a body. There are no limits, and there is a cool, black, limitless everything… And you realize that not even death is an option anymore, because you are infinite… There can be much panic, for many of us…
Nevertheless, the “quality” of the experience, or whatever we refer to it as, whether it is an experience, an encounter, a glimpse, or a trip, and whether it is real or unreal… it doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t matter at all!
What I am sensing in this moment, and finding meaningful, and wanting to share, is that it is not about the experience itself, or the collection of experiences a person may have, or the name we give it; but what is there for us, just like with any other experience: what can be noticed, encountered, observed. What is insightful for our human experience, and what is the insight that truly helps our personality to crumble a little bit more, and a little bit more…
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