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Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception - (Meditation on Emptiness) 75 mentions

• so when we look at this in terms of the way perception of anything works the occurrence the experience the perception
• way perception of anything works the occurrence the experience the perception the thingness of anything
• the one that i don't like draws it out to perception happiness and sadness
• illness and health we could say freedom from illness also also that perception inside ourselves
• see that and we draw this out as a perception to to our consciousness against stillness of mind movement of
• this this is something that we throw in with the whole mechanism of perception you could say
• that whole process reinforces the whole duality the whole perception of duality which reinforces the craving which
• now and later it highlights them draws them out to perception and gives them significance and whole thing spins
• rejection of one side of a duality breeds the whole perception of dualities i cannot get away from it that way
• less solid and substantial things appear yeah that's the perception of their substantiality is dependent on cooking
• that actually the definition i mean the sense of definition of a perception or the very presence of an object to
• allowing is a lack of is a lessening of clinging and then the perception of kind of how clear things be can begin to blur
• whereas what i'm talking about now this kind of fading of the perception is it's almost like it just blurs and dissolves
• and and eventually disappears even some letting go the perception letting go of the memory
• of whatever that perception is whether it's the pain or not oh i remember that that hurts me
• the labeling coming a little later in the perception i'm talking about something more primary than that more
• as we deepen it and we'll also see that the very perception of things also is dependent
• here when i cling it forms perception so i'm going to talk i don't know what it was
• what we're going to get into is the emptiness of things and perceptions and how the mind the dilute mind builds
• how the mind the dilute mind builds perception builds a perception of a thing
• it's not just that it's impermanent so something disappears a perception uh disbands
• disbands a perception dissolves a perception fade it's not just that it's impermanent
• i don't know has john said where does perception come in in the wheel of depend rising it doesn't it comes in the
• is nama rupa the fourth link he said perception uh intention vadina attention such as part of the fourth the fourth
• suffering self-sense but more subtly the dependent arising of perceptions okay
• and make the right connections a thing or a perception is actually dependent on clinging dependent on clinging
• um the perception increase well it depends going back to something diane asked ages
• then i have to i have to find a way of explaining what he means by perception as being part of the fourth link and
• arising has a web to every other node it's a clinging effects perception technically at least what we have from
• is being affected and you're getting distorted perceptions of things obviously
• so i can hardly claim that i'm somehow distorting my perception there by letting go of clinging or distorting
• delusion are all part of what builds perception do you understand they all
• they all build perception perception meaning the experience of objects as things as
• expand that ignorance is feeling perception just just take what i started the talk with dualities not the
• are lacking inherent existence that will feed the perception that dualities other things
• uh a kind of lessening of the object of perception we could say and uh we could say we are
• the elements that we usually feed in that fabricate perception and so perception is getting unfabricated we
• that fabricate perception and so perception is getting unfabricated we usually fabricate with sankara to
• noun we sankhara things we fabricate things we concoct perceptions and things so
• disidentify with awareness a dramatic impact on the nature of perception because at that point the identification
• candles and it has a dramatic effect on perception if you're using awareness and consciousness synonymously yeah
• mind perception uh doesn't exist this thing to my consciousness this experience does
• is so high will be the stack in the perception stack you understand and what i'm just saying is the more delusion
• there is the more it tends to build the solidity of perception the more clinging there is someone tends to build a solid
• there is someone tends to build a solid to your perception um and perception invadena as well
• to your perception um and perception invadena as well so remember we was in the last question
• so remember we was in the last question it was beth asking perception of vaden are not separate not separate so again
• the fourth node of dependent rising perception invadena reception of a not separate in
• other words where there's uh an experience there'll be the perception of that as an experience and the vadana
• of scrubbing clean the doors with perception so uh actually really is valid you know we live with veiled
• the factors in the wheel of dependent horizon that are feeding the perception and spaciousness
• eventually the thingness of things a perception begin to drain see it's dependent and eventually
• because i've seen a gazillion times how you depend as a thing as a perception on what is being fed in terms of clinging
• or sometimes to regard things as just a perception that whatever is coming up is just a perception it's just a perception
• perception that whatever is coming up is just a perception it's just a perception again they can have different sub
• nothingness or neither perception or non-perception why because they're dimensions or their
• way that's not supporting their thingness and the perception of their thinkness
• i decide to see it as pleasant once sees that the nature of perception is a lot more malleable because it's
• then everything goes beyond perception the perception actually actually fades the vaden phase
• almost like just existence and and the perception thing just like shoot it all down and it doesn't feel necessarily it
• that uh relaxed body i'm talking actually about a perception uh you know dissolving so how by by
• come across in in teaching cessation cessation of perception well that's what it leads to it leads to
• well that's what it leads to it leads to a cessation of perception okay we'll we'll come back to this some
• goes through he gets down to name a form perception etc and and then he says and perception what does that depend on and
• perception etc and and then he says and perception what does that depend on and he says consciousness going backwards
• what we're saying is basically consciousness and object perception go together but the implications of that
• object or about a situation actually colors that perception i mean most human beings should notice notice
• this even non-meditators my anger colors the perception of something but again without the perception of that
• the perception of something but again without the perception of that thing without a perception of the object
• but again without the perception of that thing without a perception of the object there's no anger i actually can't find a
• there's no anger i actually can't find a mind state separate from the perceptions and of the objects of that mindset
• actually there are only objects appearing and perceptions if i fill this out actually
• self all these things build each other you know so the perception actually builds the self-center as well
• stack of poker chips of delusion is less it will build the perception less and it's it's even more powerful gear of
• because it's working a level of perception it's sort of a c1 cmr sort of type thing

Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions - (Path of the Imaginal) 66 mentions

• energetic field the energy body and also thirdly on the perception and sense of self of other of things and of world
• so effects on the emotional field on the energy body and also on the perception sense and sense of self other things and
• that we notice the um the sense of the self the perception of the self of other things in the world
• but with this third field of effects of the resonances of the images perception sense of self other things world
• but maybe that's part of what we sense and part of the perception in the image and this this sends itself of holiness
• creative aspect of meditation that malleability of perception that actually can
• a creation if you like of the cosmos through the perception through the way of looking in the moment
• where the image is already mixed with perception in other words it's not separate it's
• not an image that's separate to the perception of the world in the moment so this is one possibility
• which is there could be a separate image separate from the perception where i have my eyes shut in this imaginal
• figure comes or it could be that the perception of the world is um appearing to us as as as a
• is one of the effects that happens in the perception of the sense of self other things world we never lose touch
• certain openings in the third field of effects the perception and the sense of self other things in the world and
• unfabricate the perception the appearances of self other world
• um fabricate less perception they fabricate less experience and appearance of self
• fabricating less much less than regular perception much less than a simple mindfulness or bear attention and
• practices that fabricate the appearance the perception of self other world in different ways
• range of fabrication of the of the perceptions of self other and world now of those three camps if you like or
• imagination tantric practices and all that kind of thing of the perception of self other world most people regard them
• talking about this opening of the range of perception we learned to fabricate skillfully
• through different ways of looking and see how the perception perceptions open and shift and change this is really
• moving in that direction of serving this opening of the range of perception which i've stressed
• more license more permission also more skill and ability to shape perception to enjoy the malleability of perception and
• skill and ability to shape perception to enjoy the malleability of perception and to open up the range of perception
• enjoy the malleability of perception and to open up the range of perception so this again everything hinging around
• so this again everything hinging around perception and with that needing a a wider view of the dom or a different
• so-called in place it will it will keep it in place as a perception as a way of looking
• it doesn't even need to be a conscious thought it locks the perception in place and and the way of looking in place and
• to fabricate less and less self and and perception of things and world and phenomena
• fabrication of self other world and the perception of self other world uh we need to recognize when that is
• to use a buddhist with a skill for perception of self other world a different perception that's that's
• perception of self other world a different perception that's that's actually there recognize when it's there
• so recognizing that quality recognizing that perception and tuning to that and actually sustaining a focus on that on
• actually sustaining a focus on that on on that perception on that way of looking so whatever it is that one's
• or with with with this wider cosmopoetic sense imbuing that the perception something sparks that and something in
• way of looking by picking up that spark and tuning into that perception so one could definitely
• this different perceptions [music]
• [music] more holy or divine perception and sense of self other world
• bring with them as what i call after effects on perception naturally bring with them either emptiness practical
• cosmopoesis they actually alter the perception of the world and through that we can actually understand more about
• we can actually understand more about emptiness and fabrication of perception so it kind of kinds of cosmopoises can
• we could say it's infinite the possibilities for cosmopoetic perception are perhaps infinite the range is
• silence and and you develop it one will actually have the perception of everything being made up of silence and
• of a wider perception of sacredness in the world and maybe also eros in well this
• be different than just um the perception of silence as holiness that she was alluding to before and i
• where the whole bit starts to imbue the whole perception of the world as as sacred in a very particular way
• um imaginal practice and imagination imbuing that perception and and the logos the conceptual framework supports
• line of poetry actually it became a meditation became a perception he was seeing and sensing things that way
• triggering if you like or encouraging this kind of cosmopoetic perception or it might be that organically
• effect the effects of this poetic idea on the perception on the way of looking and the beauty and the depth that that
• open and do in the energy body in the emotion but also in the perception another example one might
• the specificity that's important there is is the shift in perception the hearing in a certain way it may not be
• um spontaneously these things arisely shifts in perception arise and then we can cultivate them or deliberately but
• plastic things that seem may seem to conventional perception very unholy even that can even those things this cut this
• feeling perception mental formations and consciousness
• um that the um perception of the world through this um or of another through these different
• kind of theophanic sense or cosmoporosis the the perception will will appear at different registers we've talked about
• wants to be at this register the perception wants to be at this rate so just allow it to be at that register
• when we talk about a more uh angelic or theophanic perception it's not necessarily the case that that
• conceptual framework the way of looking gives sacredness to the perception it gives sacredness to appearances give
• gives a different status to the perception of holiness the holiness is not separate from the chitta
• or an image as theophany or the theophany in the perception of the world um just to point out a few things a lot
• recognition of that theophanic sense in an image or in the perception of another or of the world we need to recognize it
• out to its stabilize it also amplifies it within the larger perception within the wider perception it may still be
• it within the larger perception within the wider perception it may still be quite subtle but the tuning to it makes
• it spread to the sense of the world the perception of one's surroundings and and the cosmos someone feels one senses

Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation) - (Re-enchanting... 65 mentions

• all if you like levels of being and dimensions of appearance of perception all of that is divine
• allows us and opens up for us of uh what i want to call the art of perception the poetry of perception and allows us to
• i want to call the art of perception the poetry of perception and allows us to play with that and that's really what i
• as fabrication so it's a central to our art our poetry of perception is seeing recognizing acknowledging not forgetting
• feel very comfortable with the idea of extra sensory perception and all that in in some instances when the mind's in
• literal it's not concretized in the perception in the conception and that's the root of alchemy we'll see how we do
• alchemy is another word for what for this poetry of perception very much wherein the business
• um more accurately um our our notions and our perceptions our scents our very sense of matter of
• transubstantiation and through perceptions and a poetry of perception transforming all that
• and this art of uh re-enchantment this art and poetry of perception needs to be uh in touch with we need to
• that we do in the world and um this r of perception spills over um in not only to the way we see our
• experiment with in um in this art uh the the the art of perception it means an experimenting or playing with ways of
• space even the perception the conception of space of time
• but there's no specific formulaic perception so you don't have to if i'm uh you know
• suggestions because in terms of actual perceptions there's no specific um formulaic approach
• of mixed with perceptions of materiality in the world if you like like the
• so this is integral to this art of perception and
• that our lives um and the perceptions of our lives already involve fantasy and image
• pride so this part of this arc of perception is is is the idea that we're importing we're realizing that and it's
• bringing something deliberately to perception to play with it to engage in the art of it even when it is in his
• allowing and opening up this art front this art for us the art of perception this is recognition of the infinite
• poetry and art the poetry and art of perception it's actually william blake uh who was
• the ways that we can conceive of or view or relate to perception perceptions so one is a very
• um sort of normal and if you know for us obvious ways that perceptions are received they're received from the
• assumption a normal mode of um conceiving of perception as we move through the world maybe it's necessary
• at times of course we we relate to perception that way part of how we move in the world so
• part of how we move in the world so perception as something received but secondly it's possible to relate to
• but secondly it's possible to relate to perception um this is more subtle perception as
• perception um this is more subtle perception as gift or grace from the divine from god
• this is also received but it has a whole other dimensionality to it my perception even the simplest perception is is a
• other dimensionality to it my perception even the simplest perception is is a gift or a grace from from the divine
• but because we investigate in meditation uh this flexibility of perception and we investigate the dependent arising of
• investigate the dependent arising of perception fabrication dependent rising of perception we can also come to see it
• perception fabrication dependent rising of perception we can also come to see it through all that through playing with
• through all that through playing with all that in practice that perception can also be regarded in a third way as
• opportunity perception as opportunity through perceiving this way through this
• meaningfulness for soul all of that so perception as opportunity as door and didn't uh jesus say i am the way
• and didn't uh jesus say i am the way so imagination imaginal perception as doors as opportunities i am the way
• and related to that fourth way of conceiving or viewing perception is what about this perception as redemptive
• conceiving or viewing perception is what about this perception as redemptive work
• work perception as redemptive work and again tying it back to christ christ is the
• christianity perception as redemptive work so re-enchantment as redemptive work
• healing something but it's through perception and but also the emphasis on work this
• redemptive work redeeming the whole perception of self other world matter all of that
• foreign the art of perception some of you will will being will be artists or musicians
• similar with imaginal and the r of perception we we're acknowledging that we shape it there's an art there but it
• and we recognize this both and and uh perception and imaginal perception we can view view them the
• and uh perception and imaginal perception we can view view them the same
• meditation and the r percept playing with perception and meditation and actually just becomes life
• this is how we live in the art of perception or recognizing life existence as the art of perception
• perception or recognizing life existence as the art of perception there's another little quote from uh
• the arm something opens in the perception just for a moment or two these are these are important moments we
• deliberately so that this art of perception extends to the whole of our existence
• that we have and the views the perceptions that we have of of the self of other of the cosmos
• so all this is connected to um is relevant to the art of perception the art of in other words and what we
• conventional art and in the realm of this art of perception we recognize the dependent arising so in the realm of
• the emotions and the body and the perceptions and that that unfathomability also in
• of the creative um act of perceiving and perception and that means that aspects of being because
• that means that aspects of being because our being is perception if you like it also includes us that the beauty of
• um in our lives in our perceptions and also the understanding of emptiness these
• um allow this art of perception they open it up they form its ground they
• talking about this this mode this art of perception being in the mode of being of the imaginary art of perception the
• perception being in the mode of being of the imaginary art of perception the cosmoporosis myths become myths to live
• how fantasy and image imbue our lives and our perceptions all of that's the questioning and the
• liberate the possibility are and the range of of this r of perception liberate also the depths to which it can

From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 2) - (Eros... 65 mentions

• different experiences different perceptions so it's this investigation into the dependent rising fabrication of
• into the dependent rising fabrication of appearance perception experience of self
• encounter we open to states of less fabrication of perception less fabrication of experience and we
• insight opening different stages of the perception unfabricating and uh and that whole
• and felt as as perceptions of divinity absolutely and they usually are by practitioners very
• uh realization in the being in the perception and the experience and in the understanding
• because we understand there is no object of perception that is not fabricated there is no object of perception that is
• of perception that is not fabricated there is no object of perception that is not fabricated
• say i can we as i cannot find an object of perception that is not fabricated it's all empty
• by let's say a physical object on the one hand and an imaginal perception on the other
• kind of what we call extra sensory perception picking up on something that then happens in the future or whatever
• do we noticed who said we notice the perception of um more dimensionality more dimensions
• in the sense that the kinds of sacredness the perceptions of uh of synchronism what sacredness means to us
• discovery of perception of images of imaginal perception of ideas of delineations
• of perception of images of imaginal perception of ideas of delineations not all that means that that process
• we must become heaven on earth we must become i must in my perception see myself as heaven on earth as temple
• in that and this is what we refer to as the art of perception are a perception
• the art of perception are a perception flexibility in there and the
• flexibility in there and the possibilities of perception that can open up for us with practice
• a little flexible just play with perception see what happens see what happens to the
• the mind and the way of looking is not separate from perception perception is not separate from mind and way of
• and divine mind that fabricates all perceptions that's what's fabricating that mind
• that's what's fabricating that mind both physical perceptions and imaginal perceptions and and perceptions that
• both physical perceptions and imaginal perceptions and and perceptions that combine the two
• combine the two and those perceptions are empty and this divine mind is not separate
• and this divine mind is not separate from those perceptions and that
• our our mind root of our perceptions the nature of our perception this is a
• root of our perceptions the nature of our perception this is a possible way of looking once one is able
• in you know a divinity that involves no perception no no image etc at the expense of the kind of faces of divinity
• certainly in the moment of um transcending perception and all image and all perception in that moment of
• um transcending perception and all image and all perception in that moment of what's called the cessation of
• what's called the cessation of perception and at that time uh it is at the expense of of image sure
• buddha said it's uh beyond any perception etc it's just this um thoroughly transcendent in every
• soulmaking of of psyche image therefore perception and logos conception of divinity the endless possibility of
• simultaneous present of the the different imaginal perceptions of them and yet still there is the not yet known
• nature into manifestation into the perception of the world and into the embodiment in the world so that
• um extinction of perception um so the near enemy of that movement of
• um divinising the world of perceptions the imminent
• has this inclination this necessity to preserve otherness the perception of otherness and actually to create more
• certainly doesn't get a raise in the perception but either erase or demean in the conception the necessity of the
• through this through that through this or that perception of self other thing
• arrive at the kinds of excuse me concepts and perceptions that are usually labeled metaphysical
• basic most basic conception and perceptions one realizes any kind of subject implies any kind of object
• mention it briefly now but why matter why the perception of matter um often it seems you can it seems often
• we would expect diversity of perception wouldn't we just in what it does it creates
• um as we've explained so much for in in the perception the experience multifaceted multi-dimensional etc
• and materiality is one portion of that um spectrum of perception why why i'm just having a bit of fun
• the dependent origination of the perceptions of forms um dependent origination of mind of uh
• um dependent origination of mind of uh perception of vader now of subject object time these uh these metaphysical
• of conception and perception barest subject the barest object and the
• divinity and then what our errors and what our soul is perception of that and then and then they actually become
• what it does in the psyche what it does in perception then we notice something like this era psychologos dynamic into
• discovers different facets that um dimensions perceptions of different and different experiences
• gradually over time every possibility of perception of experience of conception or facets of
• or facets of dimensions of a thing of a perception etc
• so that the sense and the concept and the perception of my eros is the eros of divinity is
• nature becomes one of the available centers one of the available perceptions of eros
• aspects facets all this whole range of perception including for instance the perception of solidity materiality forms
• perception including for instance the perception of solidity materiality forms etc my heroes is creating opening
• and from our experience and we're living it in our perception through our perception it does not feel
• it in our perception through our perception it does not feel abstract we feel we sense by virtue of
• complex aero psychologist dynamic is allowed and there's a perception of divinity and it will if it's a loud
• to our lives are implicated in that our actions our perceptions our our meditative trainings and openings
• and the world the appearances the productions of time the perception experience appearance
• is poetry is writing a poetry in our perception does something it does something to the

The Nature of Enchantment - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 64 mentions

• nothingness otherwise we wouldn't have any sense of anything any perception of anything any consciousness of anything
• consciousness there's nothing left as a perception nothing left as a perception but the
• there's nothing left as a perception nothing left as a perception but the perception of nothing
• nothing left as a perception but the perception of nothing there's nothing left but nothing
• all sensuality and all sensual perceptions and all perceptions of forms
• perceptions and all perceptions of forms and all perceptions of the form the form
• and all perceptions of forms and all perceptions of the form the form journals the rupajhanas and the realm of
• the realm of infinite consciousness all that all sense perceptions all form perceptions all rupajhana perceptions all
• that all sense perceptions all form perceptions all rupajhana perceptions all perceptions of infinite space and
• perceptions all rupajhana perceptions all perceptions of infinite space and infinite consciousness all that
• infinite consciousness all that they're all perceptions they're all just perceptions
• they're all perceptions they're all just perceptions where they cease without remainder where
• relationship with in this case all those perceptions so anything that comes up or that might
• come up one might be in the fifth genre or one might be looking at a perception of material sensual perception in the
• or one might be looking at a perception of material sensual perception in the world it might be the third genre of a
• world it might be the third genre of a perception of a rupa jan or whatever all those perceptions and whatever
• perception of a rupa jan or whatever all those perceptions and whatever perceptions will come up or have come up
• those perceptions and whatever perceptions will come up or have come up um
• confidence there that when they're let go when these perceptions fade when they let go uh there's a dimension called the
• over and over and over and those perceptions fade and in their absence the perception of
• perceptions fade and in their absence the perception of the realm of nothingness opens up
• at all it's anything that arises and it could be the perceptions of normal sensory awareness
• someone starts with that this the perception of my body the perception of this pain the perception of this pt
• perception of my body the perception of this pain the perception of this pt whatever and and one just keeps keeps
• consciousness it could be that still other perceptions are arising um
• it's it's fabrication that sense perception i need to understand that or they're just perceptions
• perception i need to understand that or they're just perceptions which imply so that's an interesting one
• the the the insight way of looking just perception has many alternative subtexts so it can mean and i think when some
• just awareness in substance so it's taking the insight and the perception from what from the vastness of awareness
• and it's applying it as an inside way of looking is it just a perception it's just awareness and substance yeah
• but here we need to go beyond that and if i if i say just a perception it really means it's fabricated it's a
• deeper insight it's just a perception meaning it's just something that's fabricated as all
• something that's fabricated as all perceptions are so we might use as a sort of as our
• tincture for an insight way of looking just this very subtle just a perception for example or something like that
• what happens if i'm if i'm viewing it as just a perception but what i really mean or what i really
• infinite consciousness but if i if my just a perception has the small print the fabricated percept just fabricated
• the fabricated percept just fabricated because all perceptions are fabricated then it takes me deeper
• or again uh what this is when perceptions are still arising the nothingness is sort of there but it's
• um one again could regard those perceptions as dukkha duke up because perceptions are not peaceful which
• perceptions as dukkha duke up because perceptions are not peaceful which corresponds to the first of the of the
• and it's dukkah it's unsatisfactory it took up because it's a perception and perceptions are not peaceful as the
• it took up because it's a perception and perceptions are not peaceful as the buddha says but that doesn't mean
• those ways of looking at objects and it sense perceptions and mental perceptions right then
• at objects and it sense perceptions and mental perceptions right then again we tend to think oh it's not going
• to look in a certain way at these perceptions and that may be more useful than when it's just
• look at it's the ability to sense uh and to relate to perceptions in in these ways with these insight ways of looking
• first one perceptions aren't peaceful let me go for something without
• let me go for something without perceptions where there's where there's more peace again you can hear the danger
• understanding and also the after effect on perception here um is what moves in the world afterwards
• these understandings and these perception attainments they don't make us dysfunctional in the world like i'm
• there really really rapid arising and passing of either perceptions or atoms or whatever it is
• another whole level of mystical oneness opens up with these perceptions so we have the oneness of materiality
• practice it's possible to play with with perception which is again one way of construing everything that we're doing
• one way of construing what the whole dharma is we're playing with perception and play along that spectrum of fading
• control if you like or play with perception to a certain degree so that things don't just completely fade and
• um about this malleability of perception with with the emptiness and the fading i
• uh again coming back to our theme of malleability of perception um so
• the possibilities for uh playing with perception even more for the malleability of perception
• perception even more for the malleability of perception so on the opening talk in the opening
• deeply ailing dying etc a perception that is not only very painful but also as i was very aware of
• cosmopoiesis it's an after effect of perception it's a malleability of perception what the sense of the cosmos
• perception it's a malleability of perception what the sense of the cosmos is
• there's also this connection with the malleability of perception which starts to we've talked about it from the
• legitimacy and the possibility of the malleability perception just open up even more goes to a whole other level

An Ecology of Love (Part 2) - (An Ecology of Love) 63 mentions

• what measure is actually doing is fabricating less perception and this is not obvious unless you've really
• actually to understand something about meditation fabrication of perception the deep metta practice as it gets deeper
• it tends towards an unfabricating of perception now as it goes through that meditatively
• metta practice deeper and deeper the view or again the perception of self other world nature etc and goes
• guarantee that at a certain time in that process certain perceptions certain experiences will open up for them
• want to emphasize right now is um then a wider perception of matter will open up at some points is all quite
• pit stop areas if you like of of the way that the perception the view opens up and and very beautiful and very touching
• um to have those openings and mystical openings of perceptions but they're characterized by being universal
• deepening metta practice and the perceptions that have arise from it um
• beautiful mystical movement a mystical opening of perception that sometimes um
• only to say that that kind of opening of perception um beautiful is i think as important as
• emphasize it instigates a dynamic of the opening of the perception of the view of the erotic object the other that i love
• nature it instigates a dynamic of opening up our perception our view which again means idea and sense of nature in
• words it will it will keep wanting to open up our perception our sense our view of nature in
• dimensions come in to our sense our perception and our idea of the erotic object of the other of nature
• imagination and that changes the perception so when we define eros as and when we
• because that's one level of connection one level of perception and experience but not just that emphasis on not just
• experiences of nature the sense perception appearance view all that gets and eros insists on expanding it over
• soul of of view of conception of sense of perception of experience of um any other that it's involved with the
• um any other that it's involved with the eros in this case over perception view sense conception experience of nature
• when i mean really this by verticality is the perception of dimensions beyond the so-called purely sensual or the
• usually think about it there's other dimensions and perceptions begin to infuse what we love what we have an
• um with with this um more other dimensions perceptions of dimensions beyond let's say the purely
• but this is particularly what i mean by the vertical dimensions of perception beyond the purely central purely
• and adding of other dimensions to the perception so that's one range another range is just how sort of
• a vague perception or intuition or sense and really that's a
• talking about things opening up um that uh our sense sensed perceptions palpable and opening up as sense
• palpable and opening up as sense perceptions and in a way that affect us affect us that have an effect on our
• but maybe the kind of opening happens is just kind of vague a vague perception sense intuition that nature or
• it's very common at that point in the opening of the medicine perception experience at that point that people
• um uh is there as a sense of the perception as a as an idea it's it's very vague a sense of not really even
• more dimensions to the sense and the perception somehow there's the sense that the kind
• existence of like really dimensions of perception that open up as i said that there's variance there's all kinds of
• openings up of these dimensions of perception of sacredness of divinity
• involves image and fantasy in the perception more and more
• it's unlike meta which tends to simplify i erase all perception of differences between people like and dislike and and
• there's a complicate and fabricate more in the perception of nature and involved in that is is more and more image and
• in that is is more and more image and fantasy in the perception now still with the eros it may still be
• well or what the euros opens up in the perception or it may be to some degree or on the more specific
• who may perceive that when we train in that perception or sense or train in in the sense the
• or sense or train in in the sense the perception that oh everything all the world all of nature the cosmos is is
• were very sort of classic tantric ways that the perception opens up and and can be trained
• another dimension is infusing the the perception the sense the idea the knowing of this thing
• and use a certain language specific perception of the world soul pervading um nature pervading matter all kinds of
• the opening up beyond a one-dimensionality of perception opening up of a multiplicity of
• um discovered or created in the perception of of the other the erotic other or the
• up beyond one dimensionality the opening up other dimensions and the perception on the other hand those dimensions are
• materialization of spirit is possible through perception through opening our perception that's something we can
• through perception through opening our perception that's something we can practice that is in fact what i would
• alchemical task is possible through perception in and through perception as as a practice as a training of
• as a practice as a training of perception and like i said earlier
• kind of opening of these dimensions and in the perception sense of nature are very very subtle so for example the
• fantasy dimension that begins that was infusing his perception at that moment giving it beauty
• um the the imaginal infusion and perception often amplifies time it can also give a sense of eternality often
• fabricating and adding of other dimensions to the perception another example
• it invoked in her it made present in the here and now perception any imaginal sense of nature in the very
• any imaginal sense of nature in the very sense perception of nature here and how she was looking at the trees around her
• like they were very subtly at the back of of the perception they were infusing the perception in particularly and she
• of of the perception they were infusing the perception in particularly and she said a sense of wildness and majesty
• opened again for some for him this this sense of another dimension of perception and not the dimension of beauty in fact
• other dimensions this perception of other levels of dimensions other than purely
• involves or ignites image and fantasy in the perception in the sense of the other that it allows of
• by fertilizing the psyche of the imaginals in a sense perception and then i in in that then it connects with an

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4) - (Path of the Imaginal) 59 mentions

• know something about the nature of perception and nature of mind is that there is always conceiving and
• there is always conceiving and conceiving and perception experience um shape and inform and structure each
• have to understand something at the subtlest levels of perception consciousness experience
• teaching about fabrication and emptiness of perception this morning uh i think there was an
• flexibility the malleability of perception that's possible to perceive things in different ways
• she is a face there she is a theophany at a certain level of perception level of imaginal perception she appears to me
• at a certain level of perception level of imaginal perception she appears to me as
• loosely and then of course as i said influence and support uh the perception and so the soulfulness and the soul
• making so perception experience appearance will be influence supported and will
• really really want to emphasize it's a spectrum of perception what placing perception and the whole way of
• spectrum of perception what placing perception and the whole way of construing dharma and imaginal practice
• construing dharma and imaginal practice and and all that perception is central whether it's non-imaginal or imaginal
• whether it's non-imaginal or imaginal placing perception and the fabrication of perception as the almost like the
• placing perception and the fabrication of perception as the almost like the core concept the central concept the
• already talking about a spectrum of perceptions not separate from the chitta from the mind the heart the conceiving
• being or existence but again really perception everything hinges on perception that that is there
• perception everything hinges on perception that that is there available in the perception
• perception that that is there available in the perception so vertical spectrum of the imaginal in
• so vertical spectrum of the imaginal in a way it's a sense it's a perception we get that sense but as i said it's also a
• um and so that the sense of it the perception of this um includes the the logos the conception
• so it is to an extent a sense a perception it is also a a conceptual framework a logos but what's important
• big enough to allow that kind of perception of this vertical spectrum of this multiplicity
• well isn't that just coloring the perception you have this sense and then it's just
• you have this sense and then it's just spreading to color the perception of the world and yes it is a coloring of
• world and yes it is a coloring of perception but again it's important to realize to have enough depth of insight
• realize to have enough depth of insight to realize that all perception all perception is colored all the time is
• to realize that all perception all perception is colored all the time is fabricated no perception is independent
• perception is colored all the time is fabricated no perception is independent of the way of looking
• and that is as already said that perception of theophany in that model everything is or implies or needs a a an
• spectrum of the imaginal vertical dimension of perception is opened up as well as the wider one that begins to
• so this vertical dimension this this vertical perception and conception the sense as i said
• um regarded as being other than a perception or something separate from the mind
• sense of this vertical dimension the perception of it and which includes the conception of it you could say is
• multiple multi-leveled nature of things of perception and that seeing that we actually
• these um other perceptions are more and more fabricated their fabrications so there's
• unfabricated and less reality to other perceptions that may be an important stage i've outlined briefly here and
• the spectrum of fabrication of perception so
• spectrum of the fabrication of perception there is uh the the spectrum from unfabricated to
• a kind of ordering here so again in terms of perception or the sense we have of divinity might be if you like
• then is the relationship between spectrum of fabrication of perception and this what i'm calling vertical
• along along a direction and so the spectrum of fabrication and perception is we could say has at one end the
• more and more until it becomes just the normal sort of non-sacred perception of self other world
• and less less sense of sacredness a more normal perception and on the other side or the other
• converging with the sort of normal non-sacred perception of self other world
• converging in uh in normal non-sacral perceptions of other world they're top end you could
• is and really important again to realize that both spectrums of perception they're both perceptions are not
• that both spectrums of perception they're both perceptions are not separate from the mind crucial they are
• and third what they have in common is they converge in the normal perception at one end and at the other end they
• it appears or so you can play with the perception of theophany moving up and down the vertical spectrum the imaginal
• from that spectrum to us as as perception um and then we can also play with um the
• theophany if if the whole perception fades too much it it imagine is the imaginal
• sort of more monotheistic sense divinity that too are our notion and perception of god
• as the practice of of a flexibility of perception a practice of different ways of looking it's not there so everything
• rather than actually move fluidly and creatively between perceptions experiences and therefore worlds that
• rising not separate from my mind my perception fabrication etc but when we grant them that greater being if you
• so there's that view and then and then there's some other views and perceptions of divinity so we talked about that for
• um conception of divinity that's quite popular you must perception of divinity that's quite popular and fairly
• meditators the kind of mystical perception of all is one in different ways maybe all is this vast
• um erasing the world of phenomena of perception of manifestation and and that fits into the sort of

The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) - (Practising the Jhānas) 56 mentions

• um yesterday we talked about the realm of neither perception or non-perception and today i would like to talk about
• what it is it's a pain and it hurts when i find i play with perception i look at it in a different way i find
• whatsoever and no conception whatsoever i could also say no perception whatsoever but i have to explain those
• texts where the buddha is describing um a state where all perception has ceased so not even what we were talking
• ceased so not even what we were talking about yesterday the neither perception or non-perception all perception of a
• about yesterday the neither perception or non-perception all perception of a subject or perception of any kind of
• or non-perception all perception of a subject or perception of any kind of object not even nothing that's not even
• object not even nothing that's not even a state of neither perception or non-perception all sense of time or
• a state of neither perception or non-perception all sense of time or space not even a present moment
• known that realm should be known where the eye ceases and perceptions of forms fades away
• sphere should be known where the ear ceases and the perception of sounds fades away that sphere should be
• nose and smells the tongue and taste the body and perception of tactile objects fades away that sphere should be
• understood where the mind ceases and perception of mental phenomena fades away and by mental phenomenon doesn't
• just mean thought it means any mental perceptions or perception of vagina perception of the neither perception
• perceptions or perception of vagina perception of the neither perception neither perception or non-perception
• perception of the neither perception neither perception or non-perception perception of nothingness any any
• neither perception or non-perception perception of nothingness any any perception at all so talking about
• perception of nothingness any any perception at all so talking about something completely beyond the
• something completely beyond the perception of matter completely beyond any kind of measurement completely
• any kind of measurement completely beyond any kind of perception any subject any object any any sense of time
• um here with regard to earth the perception of earth has disappeared with regard to
• of earth has disappeared with regard to liquid the perception of liquid has disappeared with regard to fire the
• disappeared with regard to fire the perception of fire has disappeared with regard to wind the perception of wind
• perception of fire has disappeared with regard to wind the perception of wind has disappeared in other words with
• physics in their days with regard to materiality the perception of materiality is disappeared with regard
• to the realm of infinite space the perception of the realm of infinite space has disappeared with regard to the
• sphere of infinite consciousness the perception of the sphere of infinite consciousness has disappeared with
• regard to the sphere of nothingness the perception of the sphere of nothingness has disappeared with regard to the
• has disappeared with regard to the sphere of neither perception or non-perception the perception of the
• sphere of neither perception or non-perception the perception of the sphere of neither perception or
• non-perception the perception of the sphere of neither perception or non-perception has disappeared with
• sphere of neither perception or non-perception has disappeared with regard to this world this world the
• regard to this world this world the perception of this world has disappeared with regard to the next world the
• with regard to the next world the perception of the next world has disappeared whatever is seen heard
• sensed cognized attained sought after or explored by the mind the perception of that has disappeared
• neither on earth liquid fire wind dependent neither on perception of materiality
• sphere of nothingness the sphere of neither perception or non-perception this world the next world nor on what is
• are gods with very very refined subtle perception it's gone even beyond that the point i want to make though is the
• or measurement or relativisms perception attention contact feeling and body awareness all are destroyed
• awareness aware of nothingness it's not neither perception or not so it's gone it's gone beyond
• whatever phenomena that are connected with form feeling perceptions fabrications and con and uh
• consciousness in other words the five aggregates form vadana perceptions fabrications and consciousness it
• realm of nothingness because in the neither perception or non-perception it's it's you need to actually perceive
• neither in the neither perceptual non-perception uh that's partly what defines the state it's almost like i'm
• said that only a buddha can do this in the realm of neither perception or non-perception not in our hand not
• the realm of neither perception or non-perception not in our hand not anyone else
• that are present in the jhana factors body feelings perceptions uh mental formations fabrications and
• then he says thus as far as the perception attainments go that is as far as gnosis penetration goes in other
• and then he lists things like contact feeling perception intention consciousness desire desire
• how is it that a sense of contact or a perception which remember means experience or appearance or phenomenon
• other two get unfabricated so this is the most basic perception this is way down there at the at the at
• subject but it's woven into the very perception there's a there's a conception of subject object and time
• little bit with the realm realm of neither perception or non-perception so if someone might say well what's this
• contact life is experiences remember that's what perceptions mean life is the senses and what comes to us
• something that is completely beyond conception completely beyond perception there is the unfabricated and there's
• remember we talked about the after effects of perception on perception by now it should be clear there are many

Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World - (November Solitary) 56 mentions

• the world we have to know the end of this world of perception what we perceive with the eye with this with the
• the ego the i the eye ceases and perception of form fades away that dimensional sphere should be known
• realized understood where the ear ceases and the perception of sounds fades away
• away where body ceases and the perception of tactile objects fade away that dimensional sphere should be known
• realized understood experience where the mind ceases and perception of mental phenomena fade away
• the complete escape from this entire field of perception and what does what does that mean there
• perceiving that state there's the perception of turmoil or anger there's also the perception of the world seen
• perception of turmoil or anger there's also the perception of the world seen through the state of turmoil anger so
• through the state of turmoil anger so there's the perception of what is inferior there's the perception of what
• there's the perception of what is inferior there's the perception of what is superior
• samadhi whatever degree that is there is the perception of that state and the buddha calls vagina's perception
• there is the perception of that state and the buddha calls vagina's perception attainment something very key i'm
• over the course of the talks so there's a perception of the perception of the world through the state of matter how
• i appear as the perception of what is in fear the perception of what is superior and then
• the perception of what is in fear the perception of what is superior and then the the beyond the complete
• escape from this entire field of perception another quote from the buddha
• the very refined states of of the formless perceptions whereas this uh infinite expanses of consciousness etc
• transcending transcending this world of perception this very world of perception we take so much for granted and in some
• and sometimes he talks about the cessation of perception and feeling the cessation of perception of aidener same
• cessation of perception and feeling the cessation of perception of aidener same thing and that's a again a meditative
• negative way it's just it's not this it's the absence of perception it's this faded away it's that gone it's not this
• instruction that's about that about paring down perception cutting down cutting out papancha you know this word
• is to be in the world with fresh perception and meeting things bright and without any
• to be about being completely beyond perception any perception any vision any hearing any
• retreat abandon's desire for perception for mental formations for consciousness
• any moment and something transcends ordinary perception another similar quote from the buddha
• lovely state or an unlovely straight state does not create perception does not that's not perceived it's not
• not that's not perceived it's not created as a perception a lovely state or an unlovely state
• consciousness there is the cessation of perception and so it goes so again there's the elimination the removal of
• is something real and that translates in perception as regarding things as either me or mine i
• earlier talks view that's woven into my perception pretty much all of the time unless
• self does not see there's again this opening uh beyond ordinary perception beyond the realm of sight sound smell
• something opens you could say we could say perception experience i use those words
• experience i use those words interchangeably perception experience experiences like a house of cards it's
• take away enough cards or the right cards it collapses experience perception as a house of cards
• comes not just less self-sense as there's less but also less perception less experience is built the solidity of
• together self and the world of perception it's also the case that all these
• them builders builders of perception reduce these rods these girders that are
• these rods these girders that are sustaining the structure of perception self the world and dukkha can we train
• spectrum of fabrication a spectrum of how much perception is being fabricated experiences being fabricated
• the complete escape from this entire field of perception talking about spectrum
• sankata he said all and any all and any perception is like a mirage she said
• a mirage and perception again it doesn't just mean the label the labeling it's a fish
• whatever it is um but perception rather means thing forming thing forming we make a thing
• matter how subtle that thing is it's perception the buddha says any and all perceptions like a mirage
• perception the buddha says any and all perceptions like a mirage and he says right after that he says and
• of a magician so perception experience object consciousness subject
• illusion mirage including for instance the perception of oneness or a perception of a vast
• including for instance the perception of oneness or a perception of a vast awareness mirage illusion
• sariputa said it's like two sheaves of corn consciousness and perception are like two sheaves of corn they lean
• into words consciousness and perception subject and object self and the world mind and thing
• thing that's usually woven in our perception or that there is a real awareness that
• going at the root of existence of perception phenomenological just means
• phenomenological just means i i have this world of perception and i'm just
• so to really this is why i'm given as a human being this perception this this sense this what comes to me and then the
• we can't live in the transcendent i can't live without perception without experience in these states that the

PS - Playing in the In-Betweens - (Practising the Jhānas) 56 mentions

• um yesterday we talked about the realm of neither perception or non-perception and today i would like to talk about
• what it is it's a pain and it hurts when i find i play with perception i look at it in a different way i find
• whatsoever and no conception whatsoever i could also say no perception whatsoever but i have to explain those
• texts where the buddha is describing um a state where all perception has ceased so not even what we were talking
• ceased so not even what we were talking about yesterday the neither perception or non-perception all perception of a
• about yesterday the neither perception or non-perception all perception of a subject or perception of any kind of
• or non-perception all perception of a subject or perception of any kind of object not even nothing that's not even
• object not even nothing that's not even a state of neither perception or non-perception all sense of time or
• a state of neither perception or non-perception all sense of time or space not even a present moment
• known that realm should be known where the eye ceases and perceptions of forms fades away
• sphere should be known where the ear ceases and the perception of sounds fades away that sphere should be
• nose and smells the tongue and taste the body and perception of tactile objects fades away that sphere should be
• understood where the mind ceases and perception of mental phenomena fades away and by mental phenomenon doesn't
• just mean thought it means any mental perceptions or perception of vagina perception of the neither perception
• perceptions or perception of vagina perception of the neither perception neither perception or non-perception
• perception of the neither perception neither perception or non-perception perception of nothingness any any
• neither perception or non-perception perception of nothingness any any perception at all so talking about
• perception of nothingness any any perception at all so talking about something completely beyond the
• something completely beyond the perception of matter completely beyond any kind of measurement completely
• any kind of measurement completely beyond any kind of perception any subject any object any any sense of time
• um here with regard to earth the perception of earth has disappeared with regard to
• of earth has disappeared with regard to liquid the perception of liquid has disappeared with regard to fire the
• disappeared with regard to fire the perception of fire has disappeared with regard to wind the perception of wind
• perception of fire has disappeared with regard to wind the perception of wind has disappeared in other words with
• physics in their days with regard to materiality the perception of materiality is disappeared with regard
• to the realm of infinite space the perception of the realm of infinite space has disappeared with regard to the
• sphere of infinite consciousness the perception of the sphere of infinite consciousness has disappeared with
• regard to the sphere of nothingness the perception of the sphere of nothingness has disappeared with regard to the
• has disappeared with regard to the sphere of neither perception or non-perception the perception of the
• sphere of neither perception or non-perception the perception of the sphere of neither perception or
• non-perception the perception of the sphere of neither perception or non-perception has disappeared with
• sphere of neither perception or non-perception has disappeared with regard to this world this world the
• regard to this world this world the perception of this world has disappeared with regard to the next world the
• with regard to the next world the perception of the next world has disappeared whatever is seen heard
• sensed cognized attained sought after or explored by the mind the perception of that has disappeared
• neither on earth liquid fire wind dependent neither on perception of materiality
• sphere of nothingness the sphere of neither perception or non-perception this world the next world nor on what is
• are gods with very very refined subtle perception it's gone even beyond that the point i want to make though is the
• or measurement or relativisms perception attention contact feeling and body awareness all are destroyed
• awareness aware of nothingness it's not neither perception or not so it's gone it's gone beyond
• whatever phenomena that are connected with form feeling perceptions fabrications and con and uh
• consciousness in other words the five aggregates form vadana perceptions fabrications and consciousness it
• realm of nothingness because in the neither perception or non-perception it's it's you need to actually perceive
• neither in the neither perceptual non-perception uh that's partly what defines the state it's almost like i'm
• said that only a buddha can do this in the realm of neither perception or non-perception not in our hand not
• the realm of neither perception or non-perception not in our hand not anyone else
• that are present in the jhana factors body feelings perceptions uh mental formations fabrications and
• then he says thus as far as the perception attainments go that is as far as gnosis penetration goes in other
• and then he lists things like contact feeling perception intention consciousness desire desire
• how is it that a sense of contact or a perception which remember means experience or appearance or phenomenon
• other two get unfabricated so this is the most basic perception this is way down there at the at the at
• subject but it's woven into the very perception there's a there's a conception of subject object and time
• little bit with the realm realm of neither perception or non-perception so if someone might say well what's this
• contact life is experiences remember that's what perceptions mean life is the senses and what comes to us
• something that is completely beyond conception completely beyond perception there is the unfabricated and there's
• remember we talked about the after effects of perception on perception by now it should be clear there are many