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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

The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening... 18 mentions

• the last retreat i think poetry perception so we can actually translate um in terms of systems we can translate
• origination emptiness of the world of perception fabrication dependent rising dependent fading
• what is around them which is their perception the world that they perceive so to become of address that means
• to so craving is based on realism on the assumption and the perception and the conceiving even if it's unconscious of
• of imprisonment that goes with realism and the perception and conception of realism
• [music] meaning desire for the perception of form or arupa raga which if you like is
• the deity and the emptiness of the perception of the world of any world foreign
• the sacred and divine uh nature of eros meaning just the the perception of sacredness and divinity the aroma the
• has started to include the imaginal perception of the world and the bird song the sacred text and uh other kind
• divinised in in our perception so as we've been saying eros starts to involve it
• there's an alchemy that happens in the perception yeah
• retaining um perception and imaginal perception of divine appearances and you can you know
• lightly knowing the emptiness you're keeping that there in the perceptions there's a degree of unfabricating
• like from the senses or denigrating uh the world of form of perception of experience you're playing at that
• midpoint mimicking the buddha's perception as we uh buddha's perception who is able to know emptiness completely
• you like of objects of um perception or beings this is the first appearance of distinct finite
• through the lenses of imaginal perception when the eros has is allowed to fertilize it perceived through if you
• ways of looking and and into imaginal perception so an idea actually seeds the imaginal and and fertilizes the eros and

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 Third Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 18 mentions

• one no 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 uh in this case we're talking about jonas but
• formal genres but one notices in the after effects on perception that the world and the nature of things and the
• 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 are the world time phenomena etc
• 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
• um we've got the dependent arising of perception the dependent arising of the world it's a pendant arising of the self
• 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

An Introduction to the Jhanas - (Practising the Jhānas) 17 mentions

• then after the fourth janet with the complete transcending of perceptions of physical form
• physical form with the disappearance of perceptions of resistance
• in other words solidity and not heeding perceptions of diversity of of many things of manifoldness
• sphere or the realm or the base of neither perception nor non-perception so there's not even nothing
• right right at the limit of the possibilities of perception neither perception or non-perception i'm not
• possibilities of perception neither perception or non-perception i'm not even perceiving nothing
• whole process of fabrication of perception how how the mind can fabricate less and
• practice is malleability malleability of perception malleability of view malleability of way of looking
• through a whole range and and feeling the impact on perception so
• so the buddha called the jhanas perception attainment
• yeah but actually another just as commonly called them perception attainment and what on earth is a
• attainment and what on earth is a perception attainment so this i would like to emphasize
• so this i would like to emphasize perception attainment we're training certain perceptions and to think of it
• perception attainment we're training certain perceptions and to think of it that way more than i'm training my
• um what if we think about it is we're training certain perceptions and and that has a significance
• and we're training uh certain perception attainment so if i want my awakening my liberation
• development of deep profound resources of training the perceptions to [music]

Love / The Difficulties of Love - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 17 mentions

• to see the kind of what's feeding our perception of all that and our assumptions and our beliefs and our
• so very different seeing it that way can we turn the perception around turn the view around
• centers open what happens to the mind what happens to the perception the perception changes
• what happens to the perception the perception changes so our perception of the world when we
• perception changes so our perception of the world when we were talking about emptiness and the
• question answered period today the perception changes because the heart has changed so the way we see depends on on
• the heart the perception changes and we actually perceive more love
• it so in the giving something opens and the perception changes and we we perceive more love we perceive
• life so perception and perception of love changes it changes and this this we need
• to be interested in this change of perception it's probably one of the most key elements of the dharma
• key elements of the dharma perception and how it changes sometimes
• beyond love perception of love changes immense range to it immense range
• immense range to it immense range and so love depends on perception depends on perception even the most
• and so love depends on perception depends on perception even the most mundane way so
• feeling dependent on their perception of feeling alone or or not
• alone or or not but love our perception of love can be less can be a lack of love can be more
• flow both ways for it to be there in the space as a perception that comes and goes and changes there's an okayness

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Scripture of Body and... 17 mentions

• whole imaginal range the rage of sensing the soul the perception of things all kinds of things
• of possible plurality of truths perceptions of the truth so not this only this and not that but this and that
• the body imaginably the imaginal perception of the body and then again that has gonna have all
• that the cosmic voices spreads when there's a magical perception so that's one thing that's worth trying
• so to speak what the conventional perception is of where where the material body is etc
• ones can perception of the self might be um so involved in energy products over
• its own intelligence its own perception again by that i don't just mean wow isn't it clever the way
• and materiality certainly affects our range of experience and perception of body
• an interest in opening up certain perceptions of the body and only for the sake of letting go of attachment to it
• and indeed that shaped my experience of it my perception of it when i caught sight of myself in my naked body in the
• we perceive that's what we so to speak interject that into our perceptions or let's say that that's part of the
• let's say that that's part of the fabrication of our perceptions so the hermeneutical circle i talked
• um the uh objects that we have brought ideas to the perceptions that we have brought ideas to the sense of things
• sound just a a an all-embracing perception of things but could we actually practice listening uh this way
• or is connected with the aggregate of perception third aggregate there's another buddha
• so that one is free to play with perception with perspectives and ideas and ways of looking in this kind of
• healing of the world through my perception through my actions through my

What is an 'Image'? (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 17 mentions

• more importantly even than that through our perception and interpretation um of self other texts tradition world
• um of self other texts tradition world through acts and perceptions and interpretations humanity we are actually
• through action and through again everything hinging on perception through perception interpretation and ways of
• everything hinging on perception through perception interpretation and ways of looking that humanity is in some sense
• something in life a perception or a situation or their self or something not quite aware of
• is um alive and working in my perception of of this person and there's no problem
• a there's a process that's imbuing perception also here that's more when i tend to use the word
• that's more when i tend to use the word fantasy as well some viewing perception and the sense of life
• so to speak other let's put it more accurate levels of perception everything is that hinges on perception where we
• accurate levels of perception everything is that hinges on perception where we are able to perceive other levels of
• their love we know that's a perception and we know as dharma practitioners we should know
• as dharma practitioners we should know all perception is emptiness empty and fabricated
• more sophisticated philosophically here it's a perception it's empty it's fabricated and yet it has a lot of power
• late in all this business about theophany and levels of perception vertical dimension i hope to fill that
• image fantasy mythos is actually in sense data it's woven into perception a lot of the time maybe not always but
• um imbuing or involvement or relationship with perception so that there is this soulmaking this
• that understanding and that involvement with perception and empowering things in that way or

Realizing the Nature of Mind - (IMS Forest Refuge) 17 mentions

• uh imprint of perception becomes brighter more vivid the actual grass seems
• things do you usually perceive things i have a whole different perception with that too as it deepens of course
• actually just a theory it might be a perception but there's something here to question
• whatever name we give it awareness and perception are inseparable
• narrow microscopic way i have certain perceptions and i will have a certain perception or sense of
• i have certain perceptions and i will have a certain perception or sense of awareness
• in a different way i'll have different kinds of perceptions of things
• of things and with that a different perception or sense of awareness
• so the aware the sense of awareness takes on the aspect of perception we could say awareness consciousness
• whatever you want to call it is bound up with perception this is something this is at the core
• happening in awareness in other words that's just a perception too and you introduce that and see what happens see
• just to repeat is that objects and perceptions begin to fade because i'm not supporting them by
• identifying objects and perceptions begin to fade this is so so
• insight unfolding including the perception of space it will fades
• seen that the known in otherwise in other words the perceptions or the objects are empty
• second thing can happen is that objects the objects of perception begin to fade very important
• real mind is expressed in these perceptions on normal perceptions it neither forms part of them nor is

Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 17 mentions

• speak and what happens in life and also not separate from our perceptions so there isn't really a division here
• sense positive sense and acting out and a transformation of perception that's somewhere uh between let's say
• of um perception and the quality and the feel
• um whatever their range or deep meta etc these are states where the perception then on emerging a little or in the
• everything has become liquid means it's about where the perception of things of body of world etc is a bit less
• everything becoming liquid this perception this sense of everything becoming liquid is not just the
• literalized so that um sometimes actually the perception of the world and the self and the body but
• that also that that attitude and view and perception comes out of and is implied in emptiness practices
• and the attitude or view or understanding imbuing the perception that this is not independent of mine i'm
• that kind of concretizing reality in the perception that is those factors those aspects are
• what is the degree of insubstantiality in viewing perception and what is the depth and comprehensiveness of that
• concretized in the understanding of the perception as as we usually do in in our culture of course in the human mind
• memory of that depth of emptiness to let go in that moment of the perception of substantiality particularly with regard
• emptiness practices one just leans into letting go of the perception of substantiality and that can take us
• imbued and wrapped up in the very sense perception of the world it's not so much that an image is present as some inner
• just be staying with that sense of the perception the scent of the world as image and and it's fine either way both
• me in my life in in what dimension in what realm of experience and perception and in that sense the image is not