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  • Root Meanings is a work in progress that will continue to emerge and evolve. All entries are subject to evolution.
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Revision: 30 Mar 2024

Experience trap

  • Desiring, expecting, or requiring that which is transcendent of experience to be confirmed by experience before accepting it.
  • Insisting upon experience to confirm that which is beyond experience.
  • The insistence upon experiential confirmation prevents direct knowing and keeps one in a cycle of experiencing unreality.
  • Any lack of trust in direct knowing beyond experience limits the capacity for direct knowing and limits the ability to end the cycle of suffering.
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