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Originally Posted by Phaelyn
How about what raw cabbage tastes like? Or a ripe strawberry? The smell of fresh cut grass, the smell of a rose, or the smell of an oil refinery, or truck exhaust?
The feel of the ground under our feet? Another human being in our space?
To be alive. What does that feel like? This present moment? The sunlight streaming right now into my window after a rain?
What does now feel like? And who is ultimately reasonable for how it feels?
What does unconditional love feel like? Joy and peace?
To feel joy and peace while experiencing pain and loss. To feel love in intense suffering... now that is something!
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Well, I could list different things and ask what they are like, but particulars aside, the point is, you only know what it's like through paying attention (though I state the obvious). Hence you can walk around without knowing what your feet feel like or breath not knowing what breathing feels like or type without knowing what your fingers feel like, but if you pay attention you know what its like.
The reason I state the obvious is the same principle applies to knowing yourself. One has to pay attention to what's going on with themselves to know and understand.