[Buddha-l] What is direct experience?

[lemmett at talk21.com]

Sort of: I fall therefore I am on the floor?

--- On Tue, 30/11/10, JKirkpatrick <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

> From: JKirkpatrick <jkirk at spro.net>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] What is direct experience?
> To: "'Buddhist discussion forum'" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Date: Tuesday, 30 November, 2010, 18:15
>  
> Not sure if this might be 'an' example of direct
> experience, but
> it strikes me that being in an accident is one example of
> knowing
> minus intellectual overlay or activity/comment.  
> When I slipped on ice, fell and broke an arm, I instantly
> knew/felt/experienced that I fell and was hurt, but I
> wasn't
> "thinking about" it until immediately after it happened. 
> Joanna 
> 
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> I hope it's not too feeble to ask - what is direct
> experience,
> knowing something without the intellect? I think I am used
> to
> altered states of consciousness like seeing things that
> aren't
> there or delusional conviction but I don't know that I can
> find
> room for much more.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
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