Experience Stands Alone.

In the old days I think they used to call them Snake Oil Salesman, or the ones selling bottle of potions that held magic inside.

 

It seems in our day they are selling words, messages an idea, without a bottle.

 

How do you know if the idea holds up to the reality test?

How can you tell if what they are selling actually works?

Is it a mind game, a sleight of hands, words to actual deflect your attention from your reality or your body’s inner messages?

 

Who chased the wagon eager to purchase a bottle of hope, an ounce of dreams, a correcting potion that would undo years of desperate confusion?

 

Also, did the ‘seller’ believe in his goods?  Do they really truly believe that they hold the answer in their message without the bottle?

 

I am confused at best on this?  It would be better to believe that the ‘seller’ is oblivious to their errors.  For some reason the “forgive them they know not what they do” brings me consolation. 

 

I just can’t imagine that the sellers are selling false hopes and swinging around grandiose ideas and charging people to hear their words, knowing that they do not work.

 

Is the Seller better when She believes in her work?

And just because She believes does it make it the truth?

 

What can we as listeners of their words do to discern what we are hearing?

 

It seems to me, it is in the application or how it feels to your own inner truth?

 

But here is the problem, the speaker and the listener sometimes match in truthfulness, or awareness and they both can be a world away from reality.

 

I have heard that the Preacher is preaching to himself.  He is preaching to himself hoping to get rid of his inner demons.  You have to wonder if the listeners also have matching inner demons?

 

Does this also apply to our Speakers of workshops we attend?

 

What is their message and what are they trying to convince themselves of?  If we believe does that add credence to what they are selling?  Would the message stand by itself without someone listening?

 

Who would they be without a listening audience?

It almost seems that they need US to do their job.

Without a needy person, then what?

 

The needy arrive with money in their hands.

Looking for what?

What are they all looking for?

 

What do we want?

What do we get?

Who decides if we got our moneys worth?

 

I went out of curiosity I wanted to see if I could spot the message, the real deal.

I even asked one Speaker, for her message got tangle up and disguised somehow, it wasn’t in plain view.  She managed not to respond.  I let it go.

 

There is a saying from India, “if you see the Buddha along the way shoot him.” 

 

The Buddha lived his life and it will not help to follow his footprints, for there is only one Buddha.  You can have the same experience, but in your own way.

 

It is not the path, but the experience!

 

Maybe what I felt is that the speakers were discounting my experience wanting me to instead follow theirs.

 

I am so much happier just being me, not following along and to not have anyone following me.

 

For you can’t be me and I can’t be you!

 

There is comfort in that.  I am not here to teach others experience, and I love that we all are in the exact spot we should be in experiencing that which we are experiencing, a personal experience called life.

 

It is so perfect that experience cannot be sold in a bottle or given out, it is absolutely wonderful that there is no way to present experience.

 

Experience is the real deal.

 

I experienced a class that was trying to present experience, and it failed.

 

I love how you cannot imitate experience, like truth experience stands alone.