DIRECT EXPERIENCE VS. SECONDARY EXPERIENCE

As it does not cause suffering, direct experience is superior to secondary experience. 

Direct experience is, for instance, classical music, which is abstract sound without literal meaning; physical labor, such as shoveling gravel, is the movement of muscles requiring minimal thinking; and color, as in a painting by Jackson Pollock, is a spectrum of light with no meaning in itself.  Direct experience is that of the five senses, in other words. 

Secondary experience is the symbolic world, thinking and language, life once removed.  While secondary experience is useful in ways, it generates a world unto itself and, ultimately, is false, or, more often than not, is only partly true.