It is necessarily true that we are having experiences; it is not necessarily true that what we reflectively consider to have been the content of those experiences has any truth-value whatsoever. This arises from the nature of reflection as we have seen, in which we have objectified an experience and begin to analyze its component parts. Our ability to develop understanding from our experiences is not to be found in reflection, but in the clarity of awareness and the intensity of our focus. How well and how quickly we “get things†depends upon our ability to still our affections and intensify our contemplation of what we are experiencing. How can we possibly pay attention, when our minds are racing, filled with thoughts that our affections are conditioning? To understand quickly we must allow the spontaneous nature of Omnific Awareness to shine through the obstructions that our fears, doubts, desires, and predispositions – those phenomena and their traces that have already arisen and which condition what is arising now – create.
