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Jhanas and Insight - (Practising the Jhānas) 14 mentions

• create new openings new states new perceptions new territory new beyonds new uh it will create and discover new
• or something like that yeah their their perception is of a rather than a spot that they're aiming
• in the water um their perception is now it's 3d around me you know but i can keep going
• what do i need to understand about perception there so there's there's at least two things to understand if that's
• to do with dependent arising independent rising of perception how is it that this pain that has been there for however
• else in the mindfulness and that equates as playing with perception i okay what is it to have a mindfulness
• interested in how does the way of looking affect the perception in this case we're talking about pain but it
• meditation and i i start learning about playing with perception and its effects on the perception of anything the
• playing with perception and its effects on the perception of anything the dependent arising of perception and that
• on the perception of anything the dependent arising of perception and that has to do with emptiness i'll go into
• a description of the cessation of consciousness and perception of the unfabricated the transcend there's no
• no sun no moon no no nothing there's no form no perception there if it meant just bear attention he's given by here
• themselves to pay attention to the aggregates of vadina and and perception and body and and all the rest of it
• business of the the dependent arising of perception is this making sense yeah but

Judgment - (Cambridge Day Retreats) 14 mentions

• the section changes perception of the other person in this case why because the perceptions that we
• perception of the other person in this case why because the perceptions that we have are dependent on the state of the
• when the heart is hard and brittle we have certain perception of ourselves of the world of others
• in that moment heart softened and the perception softens and the judgment softens with the judgment of another
• someone we trust or someone with we trust their perception we really but to ask them can you help me what am i not
• any two things discerning is actually part of perception it's part of how we perceive
• and that measurement is part of the process of perception and it will actually begin to draw that duality out
• actually begin to draw that duality out to perception so then we do really notice wow pleasure and pain really are
• measuring without even realizing it and that feeds the perception we draw out these dualities to perception so the
• that feeds the perception we draw out these dualities to perception so the desert itself is actually part of the
• and things begin to stand out to perception if we can begin practice in a way that we begin to doubt
• measurement and taking away in a way what's feeding the very perception itself of all these pairs
• itself of all these pairs sometimes the perception just begins to fade
• and that's not to say that we would remain free of perception forever because there's no such thing

On the Nature of Mind - (Meditation on Emptiness) 14 mentions

• but but but but but but it's still a perception in other words it's still an object of consciousness we
• things are appearing and as such that space is a perception as a perception it's fabricated and it's put together
• and we can see it fading and as a perception it's still an object now
• consciousness etc infinite nothingness neither perception or non-perception very deep very expansive meditative
• object in other words if it's a perception of luminosity that can't be the nature of
• luminosity that can't be the nature of the mind because it's a perception it's an object right do you see that
• um so it's still in the realm of perception itself it can't be awareness itself
• important again if we have a sense of space it's still a perception it's still an object can't be awareness itself
• having an aspect color shape location as a form sensation perception thought configuration or consciousness as a self
• same thing with consciousness and perception knowing and known okay they always go together you can't have
• we've talked thus far on the retreat about the known perceptions and we've talked on and on and on about the known
• in consciousness whatever that is a sensation a mind state a perception of whatever and look at it and hold it
• consciousness in that moment too so there's a sense of the perception and a sense of consciousness as well
• words you've really got some sense of perception maybe it's a sense of stillness inside or a sense of space and

The Imaginal and the Middle Way (Q & A) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 14 mentions

• um entertain that view and that perception my view again i'm in conception and
• my view again i'm in conception and perception entertaining that um creates the meaning it's a
• r of my existence the poetry of my perception can i convert that poetic idea into something powerful into a way
• my suffering my struggles my perceptions my openings
• through our perspectives through the art of perception so this loving it again the harp on a
• about it's like the transformation is in the perception as well um
• analogy it's like it's not that before that we're uh our perceptions are completely untrustworthy
• situation our current situation knowing through perception is not unlike that of an autistic person
• and and make that an actual practical vision sense perception way of looking that we can practice and develop and
• see it it's just as integral to that perception so whether it's the awareness or the
• seen as timeless the consciousness of this perception well maybe i'm looking at a field in the sun or the trees or
• and i get a sense felt sent this knowing of that is timeless this perception is timeless this moment is eternal
• not just conceptions of self that perception senses available to us and actually even
• um levels of perception of self and the aspects itself of dimensions of being

The Nature of Awareness - (November Solitary) 14 mentions

• cosmic consciousness there's a very real perception a very and very incredibly striking perception
• there's a very real perception a very and very incredibly striking perception one can have
• precisely with his language calls it a perception attainment so it's a depth to which perception can
• perception attainment so it's a depth to which perception can open to
• profoundly affect the heart affect the perception the sense of the world the sense of
• could it be that consciousness and the perception of things are actually bound up together
• so that when there's a certain perception of very fast arising and passing consciousness begins to appear
• passing consciousness begins to appear that way when there's a perception of vastness and stillness awareness appears
• maybe how awareness seems takes on the aspect of the perception of that time because it's bound up with the
• because it's bound up with the perception so now if this is true we seem to have
• that awareness is bound up with perception with things so in a way it's not free
• wrapped up with is not separate from perception that that's one room through not south
• consciousness attention intention perception vadana the push pull that we've been talking about
• completely dependent consciousness depends on perception and perception depends on consciousness all of these

Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 13 mentions

• so feelings are empty or emptiness emptiness is feeling perceptions are empty emptiness is perceptions mental
• emptiness is feeling perceptions are empty emptiness is perceptions mental formations are empty emptiness
• some point monday form feelings perceptions mental formations and conscious that makes up the totality of
• relationship to build up as a thing as a perception as a reality so to see if you are in a relationship
• thinness its seeming thickness but that's woven in with perception so it's not like we have a bare attention to
• would the mind click in its perception say aha it's a capital letter a
• that arbitrariness of the point of perception gives gives you it's a big clue into the
• thing gains its thinness from the perception of the totality of the context
• degree that i see that it's dependent on my perception and my way of looking in the mind when i
• when i see that's dependent on the perception of the mind then i let go we let go and the uh the chalachians the
• actually as you practice more the perception of it will change we'll talk about this more
• the tree but eventually it's actually the perception itself begins to dissolve and unbind when i'm contemplating its
• almost like it we see it more and more we the the perception the mind the reflection inclines to seeing it more

Nirvana and Transcendence - (Tuesday Evening Talks, Sharpham) 13 mentions

• where the eye stops where vision stops and the perception of form fails that dimension should be known where the
• that dimension should be known where the ear stops in the perception of sound phase it goes on where the nose stops
• phase it goes on where the nose stops and the perception of aroma faith where the
• the tongue starts in the perception of flavor phase where the body stops and
• flavor phase where the body stops and the perception of tactile sensation phase where the intellect or the mind
• phase where the intellect or the mind stops and the perception of ideas or the perception of phenomena phase
• stops and the perception of ideas or the perception of phenomena phase that dimension should be known
• wearing our cut off name and form sense reaction and perceptions of form leaving no residue at all
• words for nirvana is expressed in these perceptions it neither forms part of them nor is separate from them
• release of awareness not bound to that not bound to that perception not bound to the present moment or bound to time
• all fabricated body feelings emotion perceptions mind stuff thoughts and intentions and
• fabricate our body of feelings our perceptions of consciousness etc etc thoughts you fabricate our world we
• four body feeling perceptions fabrications thoughts volitions and

Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5) - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 13 mentions

• now obviously there's an object to the perception but the buddha said you cannot separate
• but the buddha said you cannot separate perception from awareness perception from consciousness in other words to be
• obviously the sense of the what we're perceiving the perception here i'm looking at the bell
• looking at the bell um the perception that's obviously it's the visual sense there that's the
• the visual sense there that's the perception but sometimes if you just sustain the
• there is knowing happening of it it's like it's with the perception it's it's mixed with it
• yes exactly so in other words every you cannot separate perception and knowing uh what uh was it sarah putra the buddha
• um so that that's actually quite helpful so when i say when the perception changes that awareness changes that
• mindfulness that's what we get it's almost like a sharpening of perception and a brightening of a radiancy
• we're also constructing the thing sense the perception so perception the world and the self get constructed together as
• sense of things the body uh the sense of visual perception or hearing or something actually dissolves sometimes
• start disappearing like uh julie was saying like perceptions start dissolving and stuff like that because if you're
• cell thing and a certain amount of perception of think thickness of things and all that yeah

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 2) - (The Mirrored Gates) 13 mentions

• disvalues certain devalues certain perceptions experiences opening things etc
• um atomic units of perception sensation vader consciousness
• we've seen the dependence of any um perceptions of things on the way of looking in the moment
• um the uh the state or the the perception of the subject object polarity in our
• affects the state of it and therefore the perception of it just like um as heisenberg pointed out uh with
• any appearance when there's any life world at all when there's any perception there's a way of looking and that way of
• does the world inner and outer how does experience appearance perception and get constructed build experience differently
• the possibility there is there some stance that is not or some perception some appearance that we can then say
• beliefs and assumptions wrapped up in perception any and all perception that's one aspect of metaphysics i mean
• but the these metaphysical concepts 90s are wrapped up in perception they walk around with us and they shape things for
• technological thinking technological perceptions purely an issue about
• conversation actual conversation that actually did affect uh the perception sense of the senses of existence
• formal operation but a form of life lived with a an existence or perceptions of existence that make claims on people

The Fourth Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 13 mentions

• the after effect of that experience to spill after effect on perception to spill out onto the world and color our
• the buddha's teaching uh where he emphasized all the genres as perception attainments
• on the way to pointing something out about the nature of perception about the malleability of perception about the
• about the nature of perception about the malleability of perception about the dependent arising and thus the emptiness
• transcends both because it understands the dependent arising of the perception of duality or non-duality perception of
• the dependent arising of the perception of duality or non-duality perception of dependent rising of this or that
• main object to actually find a perception of the breath there uh so any um
• you know any technically the perception of the breath starts in my assumption is you're
• relationship to those uh perceptions there's the perception of praise and blame this person is telling
• of what well of self but also in this case of perception and sensation less and less and less until at some
• fruits of china practice is the malleability of perception so it's it's here now
• the art of all this and also just the malleability of perception and the art of playing with perception
• malleability of perception and the art of playing with perception i think i mentioned this already but