Understanding Experience
What is a meditative experience? Well, first, what is an experience?
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While it’s possible to categorize different types of experience any way we like, according to our needs, we can’t seem to extricate ourselves from the imposed structure that is inherent in the word “experience” and the conceptual understanding that it names. This makes it impossible to properly situate meditative experience¹ with any degree of accuracy as to its salient difference.