Our experience is as much our experiencing our own inferences, assumptions, expectations, beliefs, feelings, etc. as it is our experiencing external, actual, tangible reality.

The question then becomes, “Where do we stop and where does reality start? We experience our experience of reality. So how much of our experience is our own experience and how much is external reality? Where does the line lie between what we see and what we project/imagine/infer/assume/etc.?

When “The Tao that can be said/told/taught is not the eternal Tao,” how do we know what we know? What we know cannot be said, told, talked, taught discussed, debated only known and lived the way babies know what to do with a nipple and ducklings know what to do with water.

We are not told anywere, “You are the way, the truth and the life! You know what you know! Listen to you! The way ducklings listen to themselves and take to the water!”

No one tells us to sit still, be quiet, know what your body knows. Know what YOU know! Let that be your guide! And if that takes you into a place where you have no business being, you will know it, and, and you can follow what you know out of there to a better place to be.

The Budda, and 500 years later, Jeus were clear about what is important. The Buddha said, “Do not listen to me! Listen to YOU!” And when asked how to meditate, he replied, “Peaceful abiding, here, now.” As if to say, “It is not hard. There is really nothing to it.”

And Jesus said, “YOU have ears to hear! Use them! And YOU have eyes to see! Use them!”

The Gnostics were killed by the orthodox church of their dayt for the sin of listening to themselves and trusting themselves to know intuitively the truth of their own experience–which would have led to knowing what everyone, including Jesus, who has ever, always, know from the beginning of time.

In order to turn things around, we have to see everything in light of the truth of our own experience and trusting ourselves to know what we know. We are never more than a shift in perspective to seeing things as they are as opposed to seeing things as we have been told that they are.

As we move away from theology into ever-expanding reflection and realization (Which is called “enlightenment” in the Taoist, Zen and Buddhist traditions, it becomes possible for us to see what we look at with new eyes–and numinous reality takes it, and us, from there.

Numinous reality is “more than words can say,” but it is experienced throughout our life as “Intuition.” Guided, led, directed by our Intuition is the way of wild things. The way of knowing the truth (and the truth shall set us free to know what we know and to do what needs to be done about it in each situation as it arises. May it certainy be so!