Yeah i guess i'm thinking about it in this way, these words may have different meanings depending on upbringing, to me experiencing sounds more focused on the message than learning, because you can learn the same thing from different sources or even change your views about something you had already learned in the past, but experiencing the thing itself mostly leaves no doubt about the nature of the event, right?Posted by norman (here)
It's more neutral and versatile a stance to position oneself with for an intellectual discussion but it's not necessarily more true, unless one defines "learn" inadequately at the outset.Posted by Mashika (here)
Posted by Red Skywalker (here)
The Truth cannot be told, it has to be learned, and wow, there is so much to learn.
I feel like the word should maybe not be "learned" but "experienced"?
Like so:
"The Truth cannot be told, it has to be experienced, and wow, there is so much to experience"
Because i can see how you could say "i learned about death and rebirth" and then say "i experienced death and rebirth" and it goes into a completely different area.. What do you think ?
But anyway, waw, have you got something to tell us about death and rebirth then, Mashika
As far as death and rebirth, i have seen a few things, when i was 14 i watched someone die a terrible death. He was completely lost in confusion about what was happening, his eyes going all over the place, he trying to stand up and falling back several times, then realizing he was really dying and just looking into people's eyes in complete silence as we could see his life going away from his body. Then he being very peaceful and not afraid and you could tell also, by how he acted and talked, he was completely aware of what was going on but in the very end very calmed and at peace and then he passed away silently, no cry for help or fear or anything. It was weird but eye opening to experience that moment in his/our life
About rebirth i don't have much to say, i have not seen or think i have seen this happen, not sure if there's someone who really can say they did, with absolute certainty
I tend to think we are reborn into this world but more like we are not the same person but a mix of several different people from before, all mixed up into a new person that shares traits from all those other people and sometimes may have memories from their past, i don't think souls are "unique" forever and more like the energy of souls gathers again eventually, into a new being, and this being has been formed from several people's energies so it has become a bigger/greater being by accumulating all those people's experiences and knowledge. The "uniqueness" of a person in a previous life is not kept intact, instead it becomes part of the new being along with several other people's "uniqueness". I don't remember or know when and how i started thinking this way, but that's how i think of "rebirth" right now
I write a lot LOL, probably all that stuff could be written in two lines , sorry
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Mash