12-04-2012, 07:38 AM
From my perspective, there are three kinds of understanding, that brings a response to the initial question. There is:
- cognitive information from reading stuff and/or putting information together & coming to an idea
- direct knowing and experiencing of a truth, experiencing that is not in any way mental, that informs the mind as such. Of course our little egos transmute/consider many times cognitive information as actual experience, but this is not such.
- a mixture of the two, coming from mental content that is not conscious, but subconscious, delivered to the conscious mind in different experiences (meditation, ayahuasca/other helpers, transparsonal practices such as holotropic breathwork). But because subsconcious mind does not have language and informs conscious mind through symbols, the info received is then interpreted by conscious mind as this or that, again colouring experience based on personal bias.
For me, meditation is the tool of direct knowing and experiencing. I just sit in meditation with an intention (or no intention) and sometimes with the 'developed' clarity of mind, there is understanding, direct and in majority non-mental (majority, because all experience is then processed, filtered, etc. by mind apparatus).
My two cents.
- cognitive information from reading stuff and/or putting information together & coming to an idea
- direct knowing and experiencing of a truth, experiencing that is not in any way mental, that informs the mind as such. Of course our little egos transmute/consider many times cognitive information as actual experience, but this is not such.
- a mixture of the two, coming from mental content that is not conscious, but subconscious, delivered to the conscious mind in different experiences (meditation, ayahuasca/other helpers, transparsonal practices such as holotropic breathwork). But because subsconcious mind does not have language and informs conscious mind through symbols, the info received is then interpreted by conscious mind as this or that, again colouring experience based on personal bias.
For me, meditation is the tool of direct knowing and experiencing. I just sit in meditation with an intention (or no intention) and sometimes with the 'developed' clarity of mind, there is understanding, direct and in majority non-mental (majority, because all experience is then processed, filtered, etc. by mind apparatus).
My two cents.