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Originally Posted by Rain95
I can imagine somebody pointing to a big book about sugar saying, don't bother tasting it, that book tells you what it tastes like.
Gotta love living in the conceptual world lol.
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I think the basic point is that no one can teach anyone else what sugar tastes like (and i mean just the taste of sugar), and the teachings cannot cross that bridge. This indicates how futile it is for me to try to taste it in the way the master tastes it, so the teachings are not really supposed to let you experience what Buddha experienced. However, we can relate that sugar tastes sweet to anyone even though the real lived experience is uniquely individual, and indeed, unique to any particular moment.