The most difficult arena of human experience, the place where almost all get perilously lost, is in the experience of feeling. We have a tendency to personalise almost every experience of feeling that arises.
This is a conditioned habit that has become so automatic that most are unable to see beyond it. It is this tendency to personalise almost every feeling that arises that makes it so difficult for human beings to realise a perspective upon their experience of feeling that is truly objective.
One of the greatest challenges for any human being who wants to be free is faced when they dare to step beyond the experience of feeling. Stepping beyond the experience of feeling means allowing oneself to perceive directly the ultimately impersonal nature of all feeling experience.
To do this, every single idea and belief one has ever had about what feelings mean in relationship to the personality has to be suspended.
If this can be done successfully, one will be amazed at what one will find. One will be able to see maybe for the very first time how conditioned, how empty of personal significance, how truly impersonal so much of our experience of feeling is.
For most of us, this fact is hard to bear because in the light of it, the illusion of so much of what we believe to be personal becomes apparent very quickly. Indeed, what is revealed is a picture that is very stark.
We seek to locate a sense of personal identity in a domain of human experience that is, in and of itself, devoid of any quality that could be called personal.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
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