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The Nonduality Podcast

133 - Paul Dobson & Nic Higham - Direct Experience is the Key | The Nonduality Podcast

Aug 18, 2023
Co-presenter Paul Dobson and author Nic Higham explore direct sensory experience, unlocking the present moment, embracing difficult emotions, cultivating the habit of going to the real, direct experience versus ego, embracing the depth of challenging experiences, and choosing the direct experience over negative thoughts.
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Quick takeaways

  • Direct sensory experience is the key to unlocking the mind and ego's limitations.
  • Identifying with the mind and ego keeps individuals bound and separate from the world.

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The Key to Freedom: Direct Experience

The podcast explores the importance of going to direct sensory experience as the ultimate key to unlocking the cage of the mind and ego. By bypassing the entrapments of the mind and immersing oneself in the immediacy of direct sensory experience, all limitations and identifications dissolve, leading to a state of timelessness and neutrality. The mind is unable to go to this realm of direct experience, which is beyond its grasp and fathomings. Going directly to what is real and feeling it without interpretation or judgment results in a sense of freedom and unconditional love that goes beyond the mind's creation of problems. This freedom is always available in the present moment and does not require any specific location or effort to access.

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