Your experience with insight

[Natasha Tori Maru]

An insight is “true,” or it is not really an insight.

An insight is not simply an opinion or a guess.

An insight is an authentic experience.

An insight is beyond any belief—it is instead something personally encountered and understood.

An insight is self-validating, since the truth or validity of the realization lies inherent in the thing realized.

An insight is authentic, and a person who has one will speak with authority since no guesswork is involved.

With insight, a clear and personal grasping of the subject matter is the authority 

Do we agree with the above? 

Do you have any body, emotion, or feeling sensations along with an insight that indicate the experience for you? I do. Tell me what you experience adjacent to your insights.

[Jirh]

@Natasha Tori Maru

To me, an insight is not different in essence than any regular thought, except that it is derived through direct personal contemplation (like you said), and usually comes in the form of a breakthrough that carries more emotional weight and has more impact on the psyche and/or even directly on behaviour. An insight is a fresh new perspective that feels good, although it doesn't inherently carry more truth than a regular thought. A regular thought can be more truthful than an insight, but the lack of novelty makes regular thoughts (which are basically old insights) feel pale in comparison. An insight often comes with an "aha" moment.

But one important thing I'd like to mention is that clinging to certain insights can turn them into dogmas. So, through induction we can infer that it's not just the content of the insight itself that matters, but how we relate to it. Do we call it absolute truth? Do we call it a delusion? Or something in between? The answer makes all the difference.

I think, regardless of how insightful some thought may feel in the moment, the most important part is always about how we relate to it.

Edited 1 hour ago by Jirh