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Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5) - (The Mirrored Gates) 17 mentions

• attitude to the imaginal figure the imagine of object the the perception that i'm sensing the soul
• fact that um any perception including an imaginal perception imaginal other include
• um any perception including an imaginal perception imaginal other include whatever it is is anything other than a
• whatever it is is anything other than a dependent arising so all perception sensing the soul or imaginal or regular
• sensing the soul or imaginal or regular material perception whatever it is um in the mind it's all a dependent
• retreats and emphasizing um sensing was so imaginal perception does not for the most part for the most
• it preserves tuners so imaginal perception sensing the soul preserves twoness now there's there's a
• us perception delineates othernesses otherwise we wouldn't be able to move in
• all that it's a perception delineates at sort of very basic level
• and others here i am in this imaginal um perception engaging in relationship with this imaginary but i also have um
• um ourselves our life our circumstances um or some perception opens up or an imaginal figure all of that can seem in
• authentically imaginal so usually with the perception of material things in our environment we're
• so there's something in the imaginal in in the perception of the imaginal and there's something when we sent
• um imaginal perception involves or includes some sense of this of a kind of infinite
• um i would say intrinsic to the imaginal perception so i was talking and working a little
• that are carried by and in a certain image a certain uh soul perception so in this way we you know we do include
• come back to this whenever we uh we have an imaginal uh perception and whenever we have uh whenever we're

Love, Karma, and Healing - (Meditation on Emptiness) 17 mentions

• self-sense it's just the self sense it's just a perception of something which is actually empty
• knowing that consciousness or that that vader that perception what exactly really go into it in a way piece by
• so there's body there there's body here there's perceptions there there's perceptions here
• there's perceptions there there's perceptions here there's all the different kinds of
• and what was held in place by this perception of separation begins as you begin to see it's the same it's the same
• totally fluid and totally malleable people change or rather our perceptions of people change
• a way disproportionately significant in our perception of another or we just have a certain feeling for
• have you seen this i have the actual perception of even a partner can change and it changes depending on the heart
• i only know the person in terms of my perception of them and my sense of them and they're not separate from the way
• about dualities how we can prime the perception in a certain way and that's part of making our world we prime our
• part of making our world we prime our perception by this believing in one pole of of a duality
• self-centeredness etc it again it primes the perception towards separation towards fear towards anxiety towards
• again in terms of these dualities and how we prime the perception when there is possessiveness around which is you
• and then another mind moment and in another moment like a perception of something all the aggregates together
• moment and in that my moment is your perception of experience and everything it's like a moment of experience and
• so you can't have vadina perceptions consciousness etc without an outer world to perceive in
• not separate from the action the aggregates of the mind perception etc in a similar way to what we just

'The Holy Life' (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 16 mentions

• open up all kinds of insights all kinds of experiences and perceptions and openings widenings of perceptions and
• of experiences and perceptions and openings widenings of perceptions and all kinds of creative endeavors and arts
• these uh qualities if you like those perceptions so all these you'll notice are kind of
• practice with images and imaginal um perceptions and theophonies and cosmopoases
• words not so much image and imaginal perception as a quietening of um you know a degree of perception
• perception as a quietening of um you know a degree of perception including imaginal perceptions or
• you know a degree of perception including imaginal perceptions or quietening of images
• unfabricated or to this insight into oneness or this perception of oneness or whatever
• way of that to to certain kinds of perceptions of oneness if the eros psyche logos if any of them are limited
• and the embodiment the scent of those elements with the perception of those elements with regard to the world will
• the mysticism the the mystical perception was limited in terms of the world you understand
• nature were not available to her as theophany is the perception of them as theophany is are the forms that
• classical buddhist forms etc we're not available to her perception as the often is except in the sense of
• that eros and soulmaking a dynamic will will liberate the perceptions and the ways of looking that reveal
• directions of dimensionality will deepen to us to a perception of the transcendently unfabricated etc and one
• um riches of the soul the infinite diversity of perceptions and holinesses and all that

Beyond the Search for Freedom - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 16 mentions

• into really seeing the possibilities of fabricating less perception so still that teaching of fabrication is there
• extends this possibility of learning to fabricate less perception at times and what that then reveals what that opens
• possibility of fabricating less perception learning how to do that and what it implies and what it opens
• possibility of vastly different perceptions whole mystical perceptions of existence
• perceptions whole mystical perceptions of existence open up and there are essentially less
• fabricated we talked about this with perceptions of different kinds of oneness and and ultimately with
• oneness and and ultimately with perception of the unfabricated what is completely transcendent beyond space
• subject and object and conventional perception the buddha pointed to repeatedly
• the path as this exploration of fabricating less and less perception at times can't live there
• reveal the emptiness of all things the emptiness of all perception the dependent arising of all perceptions at
• emptiness of all perception the dependent arising of all perceptions at a very deep level at a deeper and deeper
• possibilities for engaged creative participation in perception creative participation in our perception and
• participation in perception creative participation in our perception and sense of existence self other world etc
• unfabricated and to that degree our openness our perception of of beauty and sacredness is opened in all kinds of
• um transcendence for transit for perceptions that are transcendent less of a sense uh of the uh or the
• the art of all that the art of perception what we're talking about that living as art and i'm going to talk much

Sensing with Soul (Part 6) - (The Mirrored Gates) 16 mentions

• respect to soulmaking sensing the soul imaginal perception and connect that with where i left off in the last part
• woven into what we mean by imaginal perception is a sense of a sensing of values
• sensing the soul or imaginal perception and the reality of that or the possible
• there is a sense of the the erotic imaginal perception and perhaps uh we are holding hands
• kaleidoscope and multi-dimensionality of the perception that the total sensing that is going on
• taken for granted really woven into the actual normal perception of human beings and how they spoke to each other
• and of course the direct practice and and that shapes our perception further or limits our perception and the
• and and that shapes our perception further or limits our perception and the ways we practice psychologically
• being directed by certain ideas then shape perception according to those ideas and also
• um shape a value according to those ideas and and the perceptions that get reinforced or shaped or directed or
• the whole hermeneutics interpretation of our existence of our perception of existence and and it does so even for
• we call in our language sensing the soul and an imaginal perception an imaginal reading of scripture an imaginal reading
• our exploration of what we call imaginal perception and sensing the soul and we're talking about large cultural ideas
• that influenced very much that shaped and colored very much my perception of in this case my body
• that massively influenced my body perception and conception
• at that time vividly immediately in the perception as i caught sight of myself in the mirror there of my body in the

Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 16 mentions

• practice to actually more go into a perception of universal compassion that's actually holding everything and
• points to the fact that it's still a fabricated perception so perception that's been conditioned
• fabricated perception so perception that's been conditioned you understand so
• just for myself is flavors perceptions things arise as dependent arisings
• you already get the sense it's a condition perception because i can color it this way i can color it this way and
• to perceive that and get a sense this is a conditioned perception still it might not seem like it now sometimes when a
• still in the realm of conditioned perception so
• and how would i go beyond that how would if it's still a conditioned perception so deep so beautiful so freeing how
• a perceiving consciousness without an object of perception perceiving consciousness without an object of
• consciousness without an object of perception is actually contradiction in terms
• perceive an object it's contradiction terms as is an object of perception with no perceiving consciousness
• importantly is the fact that it's still a fabricated perception rather than that it's permanent room
• still on the level of fabricated perception and that's actually the significant
• experience the less substantiality the perception of that experience has that is very significant in terms of
• and in terms of understanding the dependent arising of perception that's very significant it's a very significant
• more we we let go that the consciousness unfolds that the perception rather unfolds

Truthfulness and Authenticity - (November Solitary) 16 mentions

• etc etc etc and it's coming from the the perception that he needed to fit in to be a certain
• what i do want to say next point i want to make is that our perception of things and so our perception of what is and
• to make is that our perception of things and so our perception of what is and what isn't true is actually dependent on
• but there are big implications for all this because when the perception changes our choice changes our choices in life
• and our choice is about very big things will change dependent on our perception that perception is dependent on all
• will change dependent on our perception that perception is dependent on all kinds of factors and this is something
• washington post as part of a social experiment about perception taste and people's priorities
• making was that something in our perception about suddenness and dramaticness
• important is to see how the mind state and the emotions color our perception to talk about still now all the different
• talk about still now all the different ways our perception of what's true and real is conditioned
• touched on this the other day we begin to see how malleable perception is things every which way
• want to see perception is malleable and and that's a a dharma fact that actually goes very
• change and all of that and with that the perceptions change just noticing all this coming in and saying well it's all
• a tendency for humans to believe say the perceptions that come out of a mind state of matter and joy
• to believe that as to believe that less than the kind of perceptions that come out of a difficult mind state of
• with all this we say yeah perception is empty but they're not we're not going into a kind of nihilism

Wise Responses to the Hindrances - (November Solitary) 15 mentions

• and reshaping recoloring the mind and the perceptions and sometimes the buddha talks about
• actually play with your perception with your way of looking and find something beautiful
• gently reshape the quality that the actual perception in fact third possibility is to feel the pain in
• we believe then we believe how they color and shape our perception and we believe that what we see
• i believe this is reality because i'm perceiving it because the perception is colored shaped
• of shaping and locking us into beliefs and perceptions of what we then think and fall for as real
• the mind state always colors the perception the mind state always colors the perception
• always colors the perception the mind state always colors the perception so through the hindrances we can
• about the dependent arising of perception there is no more deep lesson in the whole of the dharma than
• about the dependent arising of perception there's nothing more important in the whole dharma to learn
• than about the dependent arising of perception and this we can understand and learn
• through the hindrances so the mind state colors the perception what i see and what i believe
• mind state actually the perception also colors the mind state it works backwards too as
• think they're separate mind state and perception are not even separate something
• most most deep aspect of the dharma about how we color perception and then we fall for what we think is real

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 15 mentions

• perspective interpretation slant perception conception there is no disinterested knowing and
• the ideas in other words the ideas and the perception the conception and the perception all our cognition is
• the perception the conception and the perception all our cognition is dependent on what's going on emotionally
• be honest be rigorous look what's happening in perception and conception belief and assumption and mindfulness
• interpretation that will shape the perception and conception and all wrapped in that is the
• reductionist um perception reductionist um ontology and epistemology and all
• um so this analytical deconstruction of the perception of continuities um
• practicing with a friend and this perception opened up of uh somehow of interstellar rocks or the
• the fact that we tend to dismiss a perception that happens when we're feeling say a lot of grief and we don't
• there's no particular conception or perception of self that is ultimately true
• the whole realm of our possibilities for practice for thinking for perception for sensing for exploring is opened up
• frameworks and how we practice how we then experiment with perception between theory and practice or practical
• give and take in our practice of sensing the soul ideas shape perceptions shape the sensing the sensing that we
• the conception influencing the perception the psyche what we call the image of things
• image of things and the image is the perception of things the psychic influencing the logos

Doubt and Discernment (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 15 mentions

• wrapped up in in life the the imaginal perception we have of our lives of others of situations of our work of our
• they actually bring a dimensionality to our perceptions of life and the world self and other
• um they also bring meaningfulness to the perceptions of self adult world through through the image through the
• a subtle but powerful transformation of the perception of the world um related to or imbued with again this
• touching sort of mystical beauty in that particular perception it's almost made me laugh with with the
• i've talked about this on the last retreat the poetry of perception um knees sensitivity and subtlety we
• like i have it the whole thing packaged or with um perceptions and ideas conceptions of nature how easy is are
• but there's something it's just kind of in my perception or in my conception of nature and all the diversity in nature
• intro psychic so called intrapsychic um but also our our perceptions in the world which are imbued with the imaginal
• world which are imbued with the imaginal imaginal perceptions of of self other world yeah it's all referring to all of
• here the mind is stretched the conceptions the visions the perception all of that is stretched in the world
• i'm moving towards the insight and the perception of oneness you know universal oneness and uh actually many kinds of
• you know gone in there as a viable perception and has changed my sense of what existence is and what the self is
• it's like you can pretty much mapping out what the perceptions are the various ways they might happen there's always
• so you know there's a validity and a value to these perceptions absolutely and there's also again there's a danger