Is this the inner experience?

David said:

Hi all - here my ramblings again ..... pondering the actually rather rare life-changing "pilgrim experience" as I do, often actually ... I wonder .. ok, it doesn't happen to all, but some come to a realisation, a moment where all becomes clear, where they see reality as it is, not as they have been taught it is, and usually they burst into tears or burst out laughing, freely laughing, and they are changed ... and the truth is that once you have seen 'it', experienced 'it', there is no going back to who and what you were before - is how it is. I know someone who was met with this in a busy railway station, though it appears to have dropped away, others who just stopped for a moment, maybe to watch a kitten playing or birds flying across the sky, and there it was .... my 36 year old daughter recently had it on a holiday flight from her home in Dubai to Bulgaria, merely because the in-flight movies and sound were down and she looked out at the curve of the earth and for a time - there she was .... there she was .. totally unexpected, but there she was ..... and she wept throughout the flight, not with sadness but with a courageous happiness .....
Now, countless people throughout our history have tried to explain this realisation .. from a pithy few words .. Zen suddenness poems, Sufi stories, to long treatises - moderators this isn't 'religious' - and I have too, offered various fictional stories in the hope of explaining .. but I think Prince Ea, that good poet, that good man, that aware young man, might have just hit it on the head, nailed it in a pretty video ... what do you think??
Have you had this realisation during your pilgrimage? Just a random thought and random question ... all is well, all, is very well indeed

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David said:

Hi all - here my ramblings again ..... pondering the actually rather rare life-changing "pilgrim experience" as I do, often actually ... I wonder .. ok, it doesn't happen to all, but some come to a realisation, a moment where all becomes clear, where they see reality as it is, not as they have been taught it is, and usually they burst into tears or burst out laughing, freely laughing, and they are changed ... and the truth is that once you have seen 'it', experienced 'it', there is no going back to who and what you were before - is how it is. I know someone who was met with this in a busy railway station, though it appears to have dropped away, others who just stopped for a moment, maybe to watch a kitten playing or birds flying across the sky, and there it was .... my 36 year old daughter recently had it on a holiday flight from her home in Dubai to Bulgaria, merely because the in-flight movies and sound were down and she looked out at the curve of the earth and for a time - there she was .... there she was .. totally unexpected, but there she was ..... and she wept throughout the flight, not with sadness but with a courageous happiness .....
Now, countless people throughout our history have tried to explain this realisation .. from a pithy few words .. Zen suddenness poems, Sufi stories, to long treatises - moderators this isn't 'religious' - and I have too, offered various fictional stories in the hope of explaining .. but I think Prince Ea, that good poet, that good man, that aware young man, might have just hit it on the head, nailed it in a pretty video ... what do you think??
Have you had this realisation during your pilgrimage? Just a random thought and random question ... all is well, all, is very well indeed

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David said:

Hi all - here my ramblings again ..... pondering the actually rather rare life-changing "pilgrim experience" as I do, often actually ... I wonder .. ok, it doesn't happen to all, but some come to a realisation, a moment where all becomes clear, where they see reality as it is, not as they have been taught it is, and usually they burst into tears or burst out laughing, freely laughing, and they are changed ... and the truth is that once you have seen 'it', experienced 'it', there is no going back to who and what you were before - is how it is. I know someone who was met with this in a busy railway station, though it appears to have dropped away, others who just stopped for a moment, maybe to watch a kitten playing or birds flying across the sky, and there it was .... my 36 year old daughter recently had it on a holiday flight from her home in Dubai to Bulgaria, merely because the in-flight movies and sound were down and she looked out at the curve of the earth and for a time - there she was .... there she was .. totally unexpected, but there she was ..... and she wept throughout the flight, not with sadness but with a courageous happiness .....
Now, countless people throughout our history have tried to explain this realisation .. from a pithy few words .. Zen suddenness poems, Sufi stories, to long treatises - moderators this isn't 'religious' - and I have too, offered various fictional stories in the hope of explaining .. but I think Prince Ea, that good poet, that good man, that aware young man, might have just hit it on the head, nailed it in a pretty video ... what do you think??
Have you had this realisation during your pilgrimage? Just a random thought and random question ... all is well, all, is very well indeed

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David said:

Hi all - here my ramblings again ..... pondering the actually rather rare life-changing "pilgrim experience" as I do, often actually ... I wonder .. ok, it doesn't happen to all, but some come to a realisation, a moment where all becomes clear, where they see reality as it is, not as they have been taught it is, and usually they burst into tears or burst out laughing, freely laughing, and they are changed ... and the truth is that once you have seen 'it', experienced 'it', there is no going back to who and what you were before - is how it is. I know someone who was met with this in a busy railway station, though it appears to have dropped away, others who just stopped for a moment, maybe to watch a kitten playing or birds flying across the sky, and there it was .... my 36 year old daughter recently had it on a holiday flight from her home in Dubai to Bulgaria, merely because the in-flight movies and sound were down and she looked out at the curve of the earth and for a time - there she was .... there she was .. totally unexpected, but there she was ..... and she wept throughout the flight, not with sadness but with a courageous happiness .....
Now, countless people throughout our history have tried to explain this realisation .. from a pithy few words .. Zen suddenness poems, Sufi stories, to long treatises - moderators this isn't 'religious' - and I have too, offered various fictional stories in the hope of explaining .. but I think Prince Ea, that good poet, that good man, that aware young man, might have just hit it on the head, nailed it in a pretty video ... what do you think??
Have you had this realisation during your pilgrimage? Just a random thought and random question ... all is well, all, is very well indeed

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