This Chapter is basically a rehash of Chapter 3, with the additional bad idea of breaking down
experience into component parts, so as to help you, the reader, learn to "experience them directly". Great! Now
we have six separate experiences that we'll never be able to "become aware of"! Fantastic.
I don't want to get too bogged down into this topic, because it's not really relevant to the main thrust of
what I'm trying to do here, but any breaking down of experience into component parts is arbitrary and really illusory.
In fact there is only "experience", or "what is", and however you break it down or classify parts of that experience doesn't
change the fact that any difference between your classifications is conceptual only. You can prove this to yourself by trying to describe
the difference between the experience of "hearing" and the experience of "smelling". Not the process by which it happens (sound waves vs.
hamburger waves), but the experience itself. You'll find you can't, because there is only the experience, and it is always indescribable.
But whatever. Whether you break it down into six things, or ten things, or a hundred things, or don't break it down at all,
the fact remains that you cannot experience it directly, you cannot judge it, you cannot resist it, you cannot embrace it,
you cannot accept it, you cannot reveal it, and you sure as shit cannot become a canvas for any of it. You can try, but if you do, you are doomed. And you can't even try.
Because there is just what is. Just the experience. Just the form that "now" has taken, and once again, nothing separate from it to do any of that.
I think I've run that into the ground at this point. I'm hoping Chapter 5 has different, more exciting errors that I can
callously rip into.
Ah, looking ahead, it seems I'm in luck!
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