Jhāna and Peak Experiences
The Contemplative Science Podcast
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How Do You Match Your Expectations With Your Perceptions?
There's two ways in how we can match our expectation with the perception of the world. We can either make the world aligned with our expectations and that's what happens so often in life. But another trick is to just let go of your expectations and let your expectations flow always to where perception is, not hold on to counterfactual worlds. So totally abandoning these mismatches I think is where the beauty lies. These counterfactual beliefs of the world are incredibly important to function in this world. And it's mismatch of I want to eat, there's no food here, how to get that line. That's what allows me to move around this world.
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