Awakening is the realization that there is nothing but direct experience in any perception, concept, belief system, or narrative.

Imo you can't escape direct experience even in a narrative. A lot of people confuse perception with direct experience, and just try to sense rather than think maybe. No, it's just direct experience, having everything arise-as direct experience, nothing can not be direct experience and we don't experience indirectly. Always has been that way.

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But the thing to realize is who you are 'in relation' w Whole ...Imo