Experiential understanding⏳
Experiential understanding refers to the intuitive understanding of a concept through direct penetration of a it within ones immediate experience. To achieve direct penetration, one begins with correct conceptual understanding (Direct Insight cannot occur without having a conceptual framework to facilitate it), and by practice, transforms this understanding into direct penetration.
Neurologically, It involves the right hemisphere, as the global attention of the right hemisphere precedes the narrow attention of the left hemisphere, making it more in grounded in lived experience. Also, the right hemisphere is able to integrate individual aspects of things into a coherent whole whereas the left sees only separate entities. Through experiential understanding, we go from an abstract and fragmentary understanding to understanding each of those parts wholistically and intuitively, all at once.
References
- Bodhi, Bhikkhu. (2005). In the Buddha’s Words An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon Chapter IX. SHINING THE LIGHT OF WISDOM (Location 5252). Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.
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