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The big difference between experiencing and learning || Acharya Prashant (2015)
Acharya Prashant
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Experience
Learning
Conditioning
Spirituality
Truth
Desire
Time
Observation
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that humans tend to value experience and learning, but both valuations are fundamentally flawed. We value experience based on our past conditioning, meaning the valuer is himself a product of what he is trying to measure. Learning, on the other hand, cannot be valued because it only occurs when the 'valuer' in the mind falls silent. He emphasizes that experience has zero independent value, while learning is invaluable and beyond measurement. True spirituality is not about adding a 'temple' of truth to the 'city' of one's existing life, but about seeing the hollowness and suffering inherent in the city itself. Bringing truth down to the level of personal experience only turns truth into another part of the problem.