What is this?

On the Essence of Being - (Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation) 20 mentions

• so there's an obvious sense of essence that almost is with the perception it's woven into the perception
• that almost is with the perception it's woven into the perception and there is a kind of another group of
• the problem one of the problems with all of them is that they're all perceptions they're all perceptions they're all
• of them is that they're all perceptions they're all perceptions they're all experiences that we perceive
• and this has problems because a perception is always impermanent that's not quite enough because you
• myself i always stumble on some particular perception or other of hate or cold light or shade love or hatred
• i never catch myself at any time without a perception and never can observe anything but the perception
• a perception and never can observe anything but the perception a few hundred years later bertrand
• whether there is or not and that the self except as a bundle of perceptions cannot enter into any part of our
• body the vadana which we talked about perceptions mental formations and consciousness you say
• what happens is the matter grows in the heart to the perception things begin getting much more fuzzy much more open
• profoundly from even a sense of all this um reality of perception a world and space and time and existence and
• exactly what it looks like but we've said that perception is shaped the reality that we see is shaped and
• back to what i said about the nature of perception very briefly i'm aware skim through it quite quickly but
• so a sense of being a sense of being needs a perception you can't have a sense of being without a perception
• needs a perception you can't have a sense of being without a perception perception is something built fabricated
• sense of being without a perception perception is something built fabricated actually takes some
• actually takes some work some doing to create a perception i need to be it's not we don't passively
• little bit put it all together mix it up and we've got this perception that we've built
• point in understanding all this understanding how our perception of self of other of things is is built how it's

Dependent Origination, Awareness, and Time - (Meditation on Emptiness) 20 mentions

• oh we'll get to it so time is actually dependent on the perception of things it's wrapped up in the perception of
• dependent on the perception of things it's wrapped up in the perception of things
• that uh uh shape a perception okay mental factors that shape a perception he lists
• uh shape a perception okay mental factors that shape a perception he lists them he says their perception vadana
• factors that shape a perception he lists them he says their perception vadana attention attention
• let's take attention because we've talked a lot about perception in vadna let's take attention
• um we've said that the object of perception depends on the push and pull and we've also gone further and said the
• in a way that singles out an object for a perception yeah that's what attention is
• what it turns out just as objects and perceptions are dependent on the push and pull
• there was a moment when this this moment is delineated by perception it's delineated for the mind by perception i
• is delineated by perception it's delineated for the mind by perception i perceive this and i perceive that and
• you say our mind is a conglomeration of um consciousness perception vadana attention intention whatever or you say
• it depends on consciousness depends on the mind depends on perception so again this is not at all to be clever
• contemplating it that way and you know it's just a perception since it's fabricated by clinging by
• delusion by self me mining etc it's just a perception so you're contemplating it as empty the object whatever it is sense
• two we talked about at some point is also just a perception has no center in mental factors
• consciousness is not separate from empathy perceptions it's not you can't separate it out
• it's not you can't separate it out knowing from empty perceptions again or i see what we see is that
• attention not separate from intention not separate from perception from the object from feeling from past future
• you can't find a dividing line between consciousness and perception or any of this stuff consciousness and attention

'The Holy Life' (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 19 mentions

• papancha really means um it's equivalent to sense perception in other words it's equivalent to sense
• um the making manifold called the construing in in the perception in the actual experience in the world into
• um fabricating the perception of objects the perception of things so papaja has this whole other
• the whole building construction of the fabrication of perception so a moment of no papancha is really a moment of no
• no papancha is really a moment of no fabrication or perception a moment of the unfabricated
• in the transubstantiation the transformation of perception becomes the mandala it becomes the the means the
• aggregates vadana is emptiness emptiness is vadana perception perception is emptiness emptiness is perception
• is vadana perception perception is emptiness emptiness is perception sankara mental formations is emptiness
• i'm missing a whole level of the emptiness of that very sense perception itself of the sense pleasure of the
• moment of vadana um sense perception etc etc and but that too is a kind of
• enthusiasm anything that involves a perception a way of looking that would open the perception of other dimensions
• perception a way of looking that would open the perception of other dimensions and the kind of religiosity and um
• sense of being able to expand the perception of things or or in a way that brings this this enthusiasm etc it kind
• it will choose find or create so we've said that eros needs a perception of otherness right remember that euros
• this collapse into union into oneness so eros needs a perception of otherness and something in that other needs to have
• something needs a perception of otherness and in that otherness it needs this more and
• much more at all to open um open the perception to or to discover maybe a little bit oh this there's not
• popular um uh consensually agreed perception if it even is consensual but
• popular sort of dominant worldview perception such

Visions of the Beyond - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 19 mentions

• meaning this transcending of the world of perception not just the world of labeling but the world of sense
• moment when those are completely quieted there is no fabrication of perception happening of self either subject object
• reborn others there's not the propulsion to create more fabrication of perception so no perception no world is reborn if
• to create more fabrication of perception so no perception no world is reborn if you like put it that way they are not
• spectrum fabrication opens to these different perceptions of less fabrication which will involve less
• these kind of stages on the way to that of some kind of perception of universal oneness onenesses
• into or it cannot open up um other dimensions of perception so there is just a one-dimensional world
• fulfillment of more on an endless more in the opening of the perceptions of dimensionalities
• for the transcendent the non-fabrication of perception and experience so both are there
• example able to fully see the emptiness of things without that perception of whatever thing they're
• there's a kind of finite series um of perceptions of openings to different dimensions and different kinds
• the different the finite series of kind of perceptions of oneness and less fabrication eventually non-fabrication
• may not be real this is just one view one way of looking one perception the whole thing collapses without the real
• be had in in the progressive lessening of fabrication of perception but if the eros is full enough it will actually
• states of consciousness i'm curious about perception i'm curious about what can be discovered there i open to the
• about consciousness and we might discover new possibilities of perception and conception and experience and
• what does that mean the healing of perception i've touched on this before the rest or the healing of the world of
• the rest or the healing of the world of the healing of the perception of of this the soulmaking the opening of soul
• article is making soul in the poetry of perception is making soul artist makes or makes soul create so and

Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 19 mentions

• object and what is known uh it could be a very subtle perception but where there is perception experience appearance
• a very subtle perception but where there is perception experience appearance there is concept
• fertile so that it opens up um our perception we're talking and our experience we're talking about something
• relationship a new conception a new perception a new cosmology
• um you know tied in with that that our perception can seem more or less substantial with the refinement and i'm
• assumptions about all this stuff the perceptions of all this stuff hmm
• ideas logo a conceptual frameworks and experience perceptions appearances whatever you want to call those three
• out then there's no need for the creation of a perception of an imaginal an imaginal perception of the earth
• creation of a perception of an imaginal an imaginal perception of the earth being in love with me this as as felt as
• society ideas logos conceptual frame and experience perception appearance i wonder how many of you have had this
• became holy maybe even became somehow in the perception there in the imaginal perception they gained a dimensionality
• the perception there in the imaginal perception they gained a dimensionality or dimensionalities of holiness maybe
• fertilized and deepened and widened the soulmaking and thus the perception of the body
• and support um the actual sense the perception the experience the image of of that of a
• image and then inevitably with the perception of the world if i don't get in the way of that
• or the mythos emerges from experience and perception opening um in in the mystical experience and in
• um in in the mystical experience and in in the imaginal perception and in the cosmic voices that comes from
• it first but just from letting following the mystical and imaginal perceptions letting uh not getting in the way
• psychologus dynamic expanding always the the nature of eros itself the perception the concept of euros itself somehow all

What is Awakening? (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 19 mentions

• fabrication uh the fabrication of perception of all perception of any phenomena
• uh the fabrication of perception of all perception of any phenomena so that means not just the self-sense
• to all kinds of um perceptions of one oneness different kinds of oneness and the self being one
• not just the participation and perception which was clearer before with this business about fabrication and ways
• um the transformative experiences and perceptions and understandings of onenesses of different
• nor is it or was it particularly uh the perception the available perception for me of oneness with nature and oneness
• around me and having a possible perception a possible experience to be able to enter into that way of looking
• like four four ways of looking for perceptions one is the insight into the unfabricated
• um um the the sense the perception of that um unfabricated
• sacredness of it um that perception for me makes it makes a huge difference
• third insight or way of looking or perspective perception is and i've described this earlier in some point i
• um the sense the the perception of myself and my life and the things and events in
• um the sense at times of of all of that as image the imaginal perception of all that the sensing with soul of myself my
• life and the things and events in it so it's not a constant perception it's something i move in and out of
• whatever you want to call it of god there's this perception of that as i described in one of those different soul
• alluded to in in that talk that kind of perception that kind of way of looking that kind of opening up of
• um which as we've said pointed out there are imaginal perceptions the perception of duty is part of the imaginal
• constellation it's an imaginal perception which means it's neither real nor unreal
• awakening opening doors for us opening gates of possibility of perception of of the sense of being a sense of existence

Q & A, and Short Talk (2) - (Practising the Jhānas) 18 mentions

• one one should begin to notice what i call the after effects on perception to me this is a really really important
• wrote a report in a note after effects on perception of in this case we're talking about genres but of a
• notices in the after effects on perception that the world and the nature of things and the fabric of the cosmos
• of insight experience but it's pointing to the dependent arising of perception the world how the world appears to me
• through pla again we're back to through playing with perception and seeing the effects of this way of looking on the
• effects of this way of looking on the perception of self other world time everything
• looking and seeing the effects on perception of self other world time phenomena etc
• don't tend to think of that as playing with perception but if you practice generosity and you
• radical generosity and see what happens to the perception of self of other of world
• exploration of dependent rising through playing with perception the appearance of the world the whole
• whole other level of power where the effects on perception of self other world and all that just become way more
• um this whole shifts in perception with with different ways of looking
• ways of looking um the dependent arising of perception the dependent arising of the world
• so that's a certain opening and perception that we can have that's very fruitful we could call it
• non-dualistically one understands this or that perception arises dependent it's empty and that
• arises dependent it's empty and that gives me freedom there's no perception of anything that is not empty
• of anything that is not empty since all perceptions are empty in a way there's not a hierarchy there's not an
• everything is that then just that perception there's no there's no differentiation there's

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 4) - (The Mirrored Gates) 18 mentions

• that the imaginal or an imaginal perception or sensing with soul is actually constituted
• so we can say again but an imaginal perception or perceiving imaginary or sensing with soul
• is being experienced the perceptions involved or it might be an idea or conception
• or it might be an idea or conception that's involved in this perception or we start with an idea or conception and
• a theophany again of some aspect of perception or it may be the very sense of
• um into into a really different state of perception of consciousness of being um and a different experience
• with the soulmaking and the imaginal perceptions that involve each other and being in participation and dialogue and
• how they can manifest um in in imaginal perception and sensing with soul is really really large so yes
• reduce this or it feels like this this perception the scent of whatever it is is not reducible to x or y or it is this
• when we sent us when we get a sense of depth in some perception or pertaining to some figure or something that we're
• um an image an imaginal image or or whatever perceptions are involved in other words they are not just
• something of receiving something um the the image or the perception or the sense of
• and where there's the imaginal perception whether it's the erotic imaginal
• slightly lighter um the imaginal perception uh the sensing assault won't work and won't be
• a stance of distrust say towards an imaginal figure or towards a perception um
• self-refication which blocks how much the imaginal perception can um spread to subsume the self and and can
• expansion into a new way of looking it might be even the perception of of a kind of a level of oneness that is
• framework this new way of looking this new perception of um whatever it is cosmic oneness of some

The Union of Appearance and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 18 mentions

• up being part of what can build eggs benedict a perception or a feeling or an emotion of deprivation also ends up
• brings a kind of cleaning of the perception and i actually notice with more delicacy more more uh sensitivity
• palpable but you could say mystical perceptions but they're very real the chitta state the state of the chitta
• the chitta state the state of the chitta as we've said uh colors our perceptions it colors our perceptions how we
• as we've said uh colors our perceptions it colors our perceptions how we perceive the dining room how we perceive
• couple of weeks or 10 days whatever it is the experiences the perceptions can begin to fade and maybe you're just
• coming out we move in the world of appearances and perceptions and the world of form and color and substance
• that we say it that world of appearances and perception appears like an illusion it has a kind of magical quality to it
• world before the seeing of the emptiness so perceptions and appearances are there but we know they're empty
• emptiness and focusing on the emptiness the perceptions we save when i back off emphasizing the emptiness the
• emphasizing the emptiness the perceptions kind of reappear and i can actually again it's a spectrum i can
• things fade less delusion less appearances less perception less nama rupa etc
• cessation of consciousness and the cessation of perceptions vadana which doesn't just mean vaden or getting
• patterns of ways we perceive things that bring the perception of conventional experience either we're in that mode or
• appearances and consciousness and perceptions did you see
• we can see with dependent arising there's a malleability of perception we've talked about you know when there's
• just scrapping all that we move in the world of appearances and perceptions whether we like it or not that's what we
• because delusion is wrapped up in our perception in our very seeing of the world

An Ecology of Love (Part 3) - (An Ecology of Love) 18 mentions

• to give imaginal levels to the perception of of the objective nature of another and will
• these two words both of them um the the psyche and the perception through eros and and this dynamic they
• when we experience anything when what happens in perception is an understanding of emptiness so i'm saying
• fabricating in a certain way the fabrication of perception and that's always there or there isn't an awareness
• understanding what knowledge is and what perception is again where there's an assumption of an
• these other dimensions the multiplicity of dimensions in in our perception of nature our sense of nature and is a
• one-dimensionality of view and perception of what nature of earth planet we and others are there's nowhere
• dynamism of the soul facets that dynamism of perception soul's way of knowing facets of that
• other dimensions and levels of perception and other levels of fulfillment of beauty of nourishment
• one-dimensional to us that's the perception that's the belief that's the very sense of these so the center things
• ideal of non-fantasy in relation to perception we believe that and the kind of realism basically but again it's
• um sometimes implicit in that is that out of that view or perception of sacredness of nature it comes a kind of
• something that's natural to the dynamic of the soul and and of perception um so that
• so when um other levels of perception are opened for us through this involvement
• deepening of your psychologists with other levels of perception beyond the one-dimensional open for us when we
• from that relationship gone from that perception gone from that love so if we talk about i mean if we even
• um that view where everyone whatever view our perception one has arrived at at certain time and that begins to
• dimension the multiplicity of other dimensions of perception and that's part of the involvement of soul as part of