What is this?

No Mind - (Meditation on Emptiness) 43 mentions

• or whatever or intuition or feeling or perception another person can say i don't believe
• some of you will be of a sense or an intuition or a feeling or a perception that awareness is not empty of inherent
• what makes up the mind is feelings perceptions mental formations and consciousness and you could say that's
• or the feeling or the sense or the perception in my meditation that awareness is it
• pane of glass scrubbing it again we go back to the doors of perception i'll just huxili and all that and bear
• within it this is a very important meditative seeing meditative perception in other words as some of you already
• of awareness is actually the source of phenomena it feels the perception in that space is that everything arises out
• is actually an object it's an object it too is a perception we have a sense of something therefore it's a perception we
• too is a perception we have a sense of something therefore it's a perception we actually have a sense of this awareness
• actually have a sense of this awareness still a perception it's an object for you could say for the mind
• and as such it's woven in with perception this very center awareness is woven in
• this very center awareness is woven in with the process of perception very very helpful but that's the thing
• we need to see that it's woven in with perception and by perception remember i'm using perception experience object
• perception and by perception remember i'm using perception experience object is all awesome it's woven in with that
• the buddha said if you understand perception you don't need to understand anything more it sounds like such a dry
• awakening it's the understanding of perception it sounds very dry we would rather hear something else perhaps but
• our very sense of awareness is wrapped up with perception i'm going to go into this in more detail
• very important but again it's a perception and secondly here's a citizens number one
• dimension of nothingness dimension of neither perception or non-perception these are very deep meditative
• these are very deep meditative perceptions the all perceives all perceives nirvana
• consciousness nothingness and neither perception and obsession or nirvana perceiving to paraphrase these things as
• a scent but still if it's an object for the mind it's a perception right to perceptions in the realm so
• the mind it's a perception right to perceptions in the realm so it's wrapped up with perception as such
• right to perceptions in the realm so it's wrapped up with perception as such is fabricated
• cannot be awareness itself if it's a perception if i have a perception of luminosity it cannot be awareness itself
• kind of exists that way space is a perception to we perceive space you have a sense of
• space it's still in the realm of perception right
• not see feelings one who does not see perceptions does not seem mental formations does not
• actually like space because that's a perception space is a perception the buddha in the pali canon uh this is
• having an aspect color shape location as a form sensation perception thought configuration or consciousness as a self
• same deal consciousness and perception remember i'm using perception as experience and
• consciousness and perception remember i'm using perception as experience and object consciousness and perception
• i'm using perception as experience and object consciousness and perception you could say also independent rising
• consciousness that perception part number constant perception is the same as
• that perception part number constant perception is the same as knowing and known
• have a known independent over knowing i can't have a perception independent of consciousness i can't have consciousness
• consciousness i can't have consciousness independent of perception this is a extremely powerful pivot point
• having some conviction that the known meaning perceptions are empty that and remember talks about developing
• letting go of identification etc the perception begins to fade i begin to see it's dependent on the way i'm looking
• as i just said the consciousness must lean on perception perception is empty falling it's falling through a vacuum
• hold in meditation a sense of this moment or this perception whatever it is stillness or calmness or whatever this
• not empty that which is empty so that meaning perception object in other words this thing i'm looking at
• relishing objects not relishing perceptions one does not relish consciousness

Beauty and the Buddha - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 42 mentions

• that's important fading of the perception of the scent of of sensors and sense objects will come back to that
• things of the world appear radiant and that radiance is is a a perception experience of beauty
• experience of vividness a vividness of perception of anything that comes into the realm of perception anything comes
• perception of anything that comes into the realm of perception anything comes into around the sense experience why
• um and so there is a vividness there's a brightness a radiance of perception to perception of things
• brightness a radiance of perception to perception of things so this radiance that's perceived there
• magnified in that erotic connection in the perception of beauty the object is magnified
• music if you listen to wordless music and and there's really a perception of beauty it is not just bear sound
• call it uh constellation that's always involved in any perception self-world other and desire in this case
• involves again a set of perspectives of perceptions ways of looking and it involves soulmaking beauty and it could
• involves soulmaking beauty and it could be right there in my perception of this uh this room right now of the ground
• looking at you of this tree our perception of the world can be imaginable
• making is only within that um those kinds of perceptions those kind of perspectives and in that
• example four feelings perception perceptions mental formations and
• feelings perception perceptions mental formations and consciousness are not permanent or
• widen deep and etc and there is the perception eventually of dimensionality and divinity both of object and of
• sensation or this survey dinner or this um perception of an object in any and each of the six senses as divide
• movement and that's part of the whole um perception of beauty in the whole sense of beauty and the aesthetic sense
• sensation moments of aid in a moment of perception of heat cold color what whatever it is and there's a kind of
• to experience to perception to sense experience there is in that teaching
• or wider than that there is not the fertility of soul perception so
• i'm not claiming that divinity exists independent of perception of a way of looking of soul
• something that exists independent of my perception depends of certain ways of looking or the way of looking
• because a mystical experience and mystical perceptions that are possible to open up we can have experiences of
• so we're not actually it is a kind of mystical perception we don't think of it as a mystical or a rare perception a
• mystical perception we don't think of it as a mystical or a rare perception a rare experience
• um subject if you like the whole realm of imaginal perception the imaginal realm and the world of physical
• psychologist dynamic it also means the totality of imaginal perception we said that if you remember in other words the
• that if you remember in other words the totality of objects and perceptions so it's already implicit that psyche is not
• so-called intrapsychic um image or an imaginal perception uh the deepening of the soulmaking
• the deepening of the soulmaking perception of something in the world is that that thing whatever it is or that
• typically now ingrained assumption and perception of cartesian dualism that dual is uh the descartes
• divinity perceptions the experience the dimensions the facets uh creation being
• um and through that this thing or that thing or this perception that perception this object that object is empty it's
• it's the divine mind that fabricates all perception so-called physical so-called imaginal
• that divine mind is fabricating a world of perception the world of things and objects and cells and others and all
• we don't tend to think of the whole field of our perception or i we don't tend to think of a whole field of visual
• tend to think of a whole field of visual perception but actually that's included in ayatana
• well includes the objects of sense perception the fields of sense perception that the the activity of the
• perception the fields of sense perception that the the activity of the agency the way that it is actually
• it by definition soulmaking needs an expansion of perception an expansion into the perception of dimensionalities
• expansion of perception an expansion into the perception of dimensionalities and and divinity divinities it and but

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) - (Path of the Imaginal) 41 mentions

• the cessation of the fabrication of any sense or perception of any object whatsoever whatsoever anything or object
• or any oneness of totality of objects no fabrication or perception of object no fabrication of perception of any kind of
• fabrication or perception of object no fabrication of perception of any kind of subject even the most subtle subject of
• something like that embracing all things no fabrication of the perception of objects or subjects or time
• and learning how to basically fabricate less perception less appearance less experience so it's gradually gradually
• some other state it's a state an opening a perception a meditative perception that is
• um if you like a lot less fabricated as perceptions go then normal everyday conventional perception that most people
• perceptions go then normal everyday conventional perception that most people have most of the time but it's it's less
• there's this um experience or feeling or perception of that
• at all but as one um one opening one perception it's so beautiful so enriching so supportive and
• are um openings or levels of perception levels of less fabrication but they're
• present moment they still involve a perception of space and there's still a very very subtle sense of subject and
• exploration of fabrication seeing what's fabricated seeing how perception is fabricated and the total way it's
• exploration of fabrication and different perceptions um if you like are experience perceived
• um fabrication of perception and the learning a possibility to learn the
• unfabricating to different degrees the fabricating less perception and eventually to open to realize
• mind at any moment to that degree will there be the fabrication of perception perceptions built up solidified made
• there be the fabrication of perception perceptions built up solidified made more separate made more intense to the
• condition for the fabrication of perception and appearance that's why it's first in in the in the 12 links of
• mind and the heart it fabricates more perception now state papancha is full of delusion isn't it and that's why there's
• whole structures of the fabrication of perception as there's less delusion less belief in an inherently existing
• will be this complete unfabricating of perception of appearance of experience and one opens to if you like the
• emptiness of all things and the object of aspect that the perceptions of the divinity and the particular divinity of
• it's not my awareness it's a real um developed uh perception possible this awareness is not a self it's a really
• heart and mind and soul in the perception um
• but that poetic uh phrase or um came into the perception and shaped and opened the perception in in a
• um came into the perception and shaped and opened the perception in in a certain way it's actually quite
• tuning into and and what colors and shapes the perception or a different variation of the whole
• we're talking about um experience perception a deep
• um whether that kind of perception i know i only described it vaguely but i wonder
• only described it vaguely but i wonder whether that kind of perception uh that sense of participation at other
• um meaning that it's not really supported as a perception for people these days because people don't read so
• and here in these kind of experiences as i said we're concerned with perception meaning experience and also
• is what matters to us as human beings and perception and experience of course matters our experience matters to us and
• constructed perception experience appearance these are constructed and fabricated and
• regarding truth because we're dealing with perception and meaningfulness there and we're acknowledging that they're
• objective can never be actually the perception um
• etc so perception and certainly meaningfulness are participatory
• texts and words and quite gross level of perceptions and even some of the um people like
• really interested as i said in opening up the realm of experience perception that's possible for us for us as human
• needed so when for instance if there's um the perception of the unfabricated shining through everything that's beyond

Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 40 mentions

• night as well that thingness objectness perception itself was also dependent um
• phenomena aggregates uh you know body etc perception and actually look at those and see their
• that's what we're talking about perception phase you're actually learning just in terms of experience i'm
• he said well we're talking about clinging and the fading of perception and she said well i'm not clinging but
• freedom another is that things actually fade that the perception of things objects actually fades but a third
• letting go so the unfabricating of perception can happen in different ways could be that
• deeper we let go the less support we are giving to the perception of thingness of things
• eighth one is not even nothingness we call it the realm of neither perception or non-perception at that point the mind
• call it the realm of neither perception or non-perception at that point the mind is not even kind of landing on or
• states of less and less fabricating of perception do you understand they're less and less
• letting go it's um it's not surprising that some of that other perception comes up in a way the perception of peating
• that some of that other perception comes up in a way the perception of peating well-being is you could say less solid
• more refined less substantial than a perception of pain which tends to be a real perception salinity etc it's
• than a perception of pain which tends to be a real perception salinity etc it's because you're you're not feeding the
• open less substantial sense of perception of the body does this make sense or is it yeah
• takes for the pain to be there as a perception i mean phenomenological phenomenological mode the the experience
• substantiality thickness comes in and pt is a lot less thing and perception than the side question is is it like
• simply very practical about it yeah why is it called neither perception or a long perception because of the thing
• why is it called neither perception or a long perception because of the thing that i'm talking about it's well
• kind of landing on the concept and the perception because remember conceiving and perceiving in the way i'm using
• it even goes it sort of un it doesn't land on the on the perception or the conception of nothingness but what it's
• the mind is kind of it's not gone completely beyond perception it's still uh it's still it's almost like struck by
• its way as as an actual thing a perception it begins kind of you know i could an extremely advanced
• um when the self-sense phase the perception of the object fades so like everything
• dependency there self sense is stronger perception of object is stronger there that's another factor you could say when
• that's another factor you could say when identification is stronger perception of object is stronger so self-sense
• clinging i did all these go together as factors with with perception of object um
• want more of it do i want less of it so all wrapped up in in perception is the investment of the self and that to bring
• to it's like because of that the the perception tends to go to a particular in the visual field
• that thing i like or i don't like and draws out the perception of the particular
• it is yeah so when i talk about the emptiness of perception that's partly what i'm talking about absolutely and
• it's there and we fabricate the perception of the world and uh you cannot get away from that you cannot get
• talking about coming into the perception more and more uh was saying it started the talk last
• to any sense and that then that that very perception of equality then lends itself to more no preferences right so
• just become easier and easier and with that easier and easier the perception of things as being not really that
• that so i'll push it that actually heightens our perception of things different things the differences of
• sort of this or that experienced perception object whatever we're choosing but that's that's as we go
• uh labeling when i say perception i'm not talking just about labeling
• just about labeling looking at the sense of perception experience object i'm using synonymously
• distinguish here between modes of perception and we have a mode that we're looking at

Soulmaking (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 40 mentions

• sense of self and they fabricate less perception that means less actual appearance less experience
• uh so i'm using those words to synonymously perception experience appearance and so one understand one
• through the flexibility and the movement that opens up of the uh the perception the the changes in perception that are
• that opens up of the uh the perception the the changes in perception that are facilitated by the changes in the way of
• decrease in in how much fabrication there is in terms of self and perception there is still some self being
• there's still some uh definitely quite a lot of fabrication perception and still conceptions etc wrapped up in there
• ways of looking um the sense of self the perception the appearances themselves begin to
• engaging in skillful fabrication of of self and of perception this third avenue opens the door unlike the other
• also if you like bring fancy or to our perception and sense of what the dharma is what awakening is what who the
• imbuing our conceptions and um perceptions of of all that of dharma of awakening of of buddha of parth etc
• opening and deepening the range of perception i'm going to come back to this
• open and deepen and expand the range of perception of self of other and world and that expanding of the range of
• and that expanding of the range of perception is part of soulfulness and that's part of what makes this
• deepening and expanding of the range of perception the range of appearance and experience the pace at which that
• um and and so the this opening of the perception of self other world etc this this opening of more and more
• and that keeps opening a range of perception perception perception experience the range of experience of
• key that opens up the whole realm of perception and that's related to this whole idea
• means that actually fabricates self and dukkha and perception of appearances so i start playing with this business of
• whole deeper understanding of the fabrication of perception the emptiness of all things through that
• functions as a key that opens understanding and opens perception one way or another through emptiness
• more ways of looking in other words it opens up the perception the dharma concept and bring a sense of
• freedom from they also open the perception and this is crucial that's a very different way of understanding the
• freeing up and an opening of the range of perception in a way perception gets healed of its limitations which often
• is this freeing up of the range of perception the healing of perception and also in ways that we wouldn't get
• back to that hopefully in other talks so this healing of perception this opening of the range of perception
• so this healing of perception this opening of the range of perception through imaginal practice and through
• principal navigator that allows the perception to open up in ways that beautifully bring together or
• transparency beauty sacredness freeing up of the perception in really broad and beautiful ways
• about practice here in a way that affects perception the prime practice is not practice as
• far as i'm concerned unless it affects perception some meditator is someone who plays with
• conceptions in a way in ways that it affects perception that affect perception so say what if this
• affects perception that affect perception so say what if this conceptual frame what if this one and we
• and uh they expand the uh perception so the perception then is is different of
• they expand the uh perception so the perception then is is different of things because they have this other soul
• a different sense of things a different perception of things they're more insult we love
• not allow a deepening or opening of the perception so i cannot see keith jarrett that way
• and opening and expanding of the perception of the image and because of that the eros cannot
• limit or prevent the opening of perception because it only has a certain range that
• cannot entertain and give ground and support to a perception that does not make sense within that conceptual
• so it limits and prevents the opening of perception opening of experience and the question is individually how how

Eros Unfettered (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 40 mentions

• um and some you know they relate to our perceptions in the world of the world of others of self of objects etc some are
• subject and if i'm focusing on an image or an imaginal perception of another in my life there is both the sense of them
• particular kind of eros gives rise to a particular perception of other of self and of world at large so
• or whatever it is when actually we have an imaginal perception of a person um we are also uh
• um that's infinite possibilities there in the perceptions of in this case of one's own soul in its particularities
• connection is is involved in the imaginal perception of the constellation of self and other whatever
• as always the view the way of looking shapes the perception shapes what unfolds and maybe that desire actually
• i found myself in a world of flames okay so this is a a very powerful perception it's extremely subtle especially it was
• at the same time there's like a level of perception uh subtle but very powerful of a world of flames
• human beings this is this kind of altered mystical perception we can feel that call
• sexually penetrate all things what does this mean it's an imaginal perception it's not the same as the divine
• that but here's a sense of opening to a mystical or imaginal perception very particular where each thing each being
• um infuses and spills over into the perception of matter there's so many possibilities but in this case could
• to a love for all matter but the perception of that matter is not matter as a quantum physicist would conceive it
• one the trees the grass whatever it is the buildings and have the perception um
• and this is something different there's a kind of imaginal mystical perception that the cosmos is
• a sense it was palpable um a perception an imaginal perception of of this world this room and and the
• surroundings that i was in outside etc and in this imaginal perception in this cosmoporosis eros was woven into the
• the cosmos and eros is divine in that in that imaginal perception opened up eros is divine
• as i opened my eyes and moved around with the equality of perception if it applied just as easily to say plastic or
• noticed was um at a stage of this perception opening this cosmopoetic perception opening
• um at a stage of this perception opening this cosmopoetic perception opening um there was a stage where i felt that
• else it was just a matter of people opening to that perception so i was not in any way singled out there i also had
• images image holding it holding these perceptions um so that we know images image we're
• for the being for the inside for the uh an understanding for the perception but that was just a stage and eventually
• um i was not so much the recipient so in the cosmopoetic and perception of self and the world or the cosmos i was not so
• sure everyone could say that about their life but but the perception of that gets a whole other
• reflecting the um actual imaginal uh perception in in the in the narrower image and when i
• the in the narrower image and when i lost the cosmopoietic perception i could um regain it by focusing on that aspect
• see the potential here of what it can open up in perception and if we allow eros to
• have it have a tremendous effect on the being on the perception on the um ways of looking on the energy body on the
• involved the body the soul perception the intellect etc these ideas are are not abstract but the very idea
• of our our perceptions of of nature so we might you know we tend to have in our modernist
• in all domains in all kinds of areas in all perceptions and in all kinds of particularities that we wouldn't even
• only a certain amount is allowed a certain kind of perception an idea of the other a certain kind of perception
• certain kind of perception an idea of the other a certain kind of perception idea of the world and a certain kind of
• idea of the world and a certain kind of perception idea of of um any eros or desire that might arise
• kinds of divinity that are able that we are able to open to as perceptions as actual experiences
• kinds of experiences of divinity of perceptions of senses of divinity are actually endless we're going to come
• um they might be vague but the perception and the conceptions of divinity are absolutely potentially

A Mystical Kiss (...for Mystics, Anti-Mystics, Lovers, and Realists...) - (The Boundless Heart) 37 mentions

• and the nature of reality and the nature of perception and
• um to things like extra sensory perception and precognition and synchronicity and all that and what's
• avenue of unfoldment of mystical perception is what we call via negative and brings with it what's
• change change transform and deepen and open the perception we have of everyday life to make it divine
• a call into question conventional appearances perceptions and understandings
• more love so there are changes in perception understanding that bring with them that
• whole movement of of the way that the perception unfolds do you understand laughs
• they bring about or they they are changes in perception and understanding of of reality you could say of what's
• real but and those changes in perception understand they call into question
• conventional taken for granted perceptions and appearances and understandings
• fit with our commonly agreed experienced perceptions in the world that's not what everyone agrees on for a
• to want to get rid of more mystical perceptions like god or soul or something might just be using that to
• you know once challenged all the mystical perceptions but left not very un left unchallenged once left
• understanding of uh the nature of perception i'll explain more what i mean as we go on it's not that we're chasing
• experience we're understanding something about the nature of perception we're on a journey to that understanding that's
• different not chasing an experience but that understanding of perception of experience brings freedom that's what
• different openings bring different unfoldings bring different perceptions and different possibilities so in a way
• way of looking it's really helpful oneness oneness the perception of one some of you have described as the
• unpicking this taken for granted way of solidified perception everyone believes in all those practice together that's
• more visible more prominent more more obvious will rise that's that perception of oneness the sense of love too will uh
• um have insight into emptiness the more mystical becomes my perception just like you do this this is what
• just like you do this this is what happens you get this perception if i do the opposite i get conventional
• if i do the opposite i get conventional perception if i get really tight you know what kind
• if i get really tight you know what kind of perception you get you kind of get a very solidified tight enclosed
• very solidified tight enclosed perception with a lot of separateness a lot of sense of self etc where am i on
• that scale more of this the more the perception opens up do you understand what i mean
• we're not fabricating and supporting that ordinary perception and this is this is just a law it's just
• how it goes it's it's a it's what it's uh understanding perception you can say well no maybe something's
• with with presence with awareness clinging less perception opens out changes
• we could say when wisdom when love when non-clinging a present perception changes it it d uh coagulates
• i need to understand the nature of perception i need to understand something about perception
• perception i need to understand something about perception something radical going on here
• he didn't support was um a lot of mystical perceptions as as um state and the statements that this or
• um state and the statements that this or that mystical perception was an ultimate truth there's again a subtle distinction
• truth there's again a subtle distinction here so perception of the atman or the brain says that's not the ultimate truth
• um what's called the five aggregates the the body the feelings the perceptions the the thoughts and and the and the
• we want to understand something about perception and that's different

The Eighth Jhana (The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception) - (Practising the Jhānas) 35 mentions

• pointing to here what's involved in this in this uh this perception attainment this opening this this um
• um senses or perceptions of the nature of awareness at different times and they
• means well being conscious it means the recognition of something the perception of something
• about wow this there's a it's so different uh a perception so different an opening than we usually have as human
• as i said in their after effects on perception again it in the vastness of awareness
• say in the infinite consciousness with the after effect on on perception a phenomenon or a stone or an object feels
• distinguishing in the after effects of perception between the between these two states the vastness of awareness and the
• infinite consciousness the after effective perception the vastness of awareness will will be
• eyes open and especially in terms of their after effects on perception but i just want to again take a slight
• that opening and that sense and that perception assimilating that into their sense of existence it would be really
• regarding such experiences such opening such perceptions you know if one goes into an interview and reports such an
• insights what's the buddha's words perception attainment and he talks about them in a scale of
• and he talks about them in a scale of perception attainment the attainment the ability the
• free from and transcending the hassle and the reach of material perceptions sometimes the buddha calls the four
• so again such an opening such a perception such a revelation relativizes this this world the world
• same principles as before if we let the after effects of perception uh open up if we really explore them they become
• teaching all this is as i said the after effects on perception are as significant as the pure genic experiences themselves
• really changes or those after effects on perception have a big impact in our sense of this world
• um so if i have the after effect on perception the stone has consciousness and there's divinity radiating from
• understanding the dependent arising and therefore the emptiness of perception everything that i talked about the other
• and that this realm and that are perceptions arising dependent on different ways of looking
• almost overwhelming in uh in in the perception of it emerges both in the jannah in the sort of pure janik
• experience and in the after effect on perception again this is why so much emphasize the after effects on
• emphasize the after effects on perception really taking that time off the cushion in a kind of much more
• effects after a formal practice on perception how how is now right now what what's what's happened to my perception
• perception how how is now right now what what's what's happened to my perception of self of world of consciousness of
• proud that oneness can be in the genre or in the after effect on perception it's a oneness yesterday we said the
• later you know just naturally in the after effects of perception you can trust that so you don't even know in
• transformative perceptions and and knowings and digestions here is the very sense of
• so i can see what i usually sense as solid can i flip the perception so that i sent it as space as not solid
• elements of a training just what is it training the perception of space i'm training the perception of
• just what is it training the perception of space i'm training the perception of space space is not something that we
• beings habitually pay attention to so we're training a perception training an ability of what's more a more refined
• ability of what's more a more refined perception but the point i want to make is it's all training just training of
• is it's all training just training of perceptions and the training has slightly different elements in it and

Going Forwards - (Practising the Jhānas) 35 mentions

• pointing to here what's involved in this in this uh this perception attainment this opening this this um
• um senses or perceptions of the nature of awareness at different times and they
• means well being conscious it means the recognition of something the perception of something
• about wow this there's a it's so different uh a perception so different an opening than we usually have as human
• as i said in their after effects on perception again it in the vastness of awareness uh you
• in the infinite consciousness with the after effect on on perception a phenomenon or a stone or an object feels
• distinguishing in the after effects of perception between the between these two states the vastness of awareness and the
• infinite consciousness the after effective perception of the vastness of awareness will will be
• eyes open and especially in terms of their after effects on perception but i just want to again take a slight
• that opening and that sense and that perception assimilating that into their sense of existence it would be really
• regarding such experiences such opening such perceptions you know if one goes into an interview and reports such an
• insights what's the buddha's words perception attainment and he talks about them in a scale of
• and he talks about them in a scale of perception attainment the attainment the ability the
• free from and transcending the hassle and the reach of material perceptions sometimes the buddha calls the four
• so again such an opening such a perception such a revelation relativizes this this world the world
• same principles as before if we let the after effects of perception uh open up if we really explore them they become
• teaching all this as i said the after effects on perception are as significant as the pure janik experiences themselves
• really changes or those after effects on perception have a big impact in our sense of this world
• um so if i have the after effect on perception the stone has consciousness and there's divinity radiating from
• understanding the dependent arising and therefore the emptiness of perception everything that i talked about the other
• and that this realm and that are perceptions arising dependent on different ways of looking
• almost overwhelming in uh in in the perception of it that emerges both in the genre in the sort of pure janik
• experience and in the after effect on perception and again this is why so much emphasize the after effects on
• emphasize the after effects on perception really taking that time off the cushion in a kind of much more
• effects after a formal practice on perception how how is now right now what what's what's happened to my perception
• perception how how is now right now what what's what's happened to my perception of self of world of consciousness of
• proud that oneness can be in the genre or in the after effect on perception it's a oneness yesterday we said the
• later you know just naturally in the after effects of perception you can trust that so you don't even know in
• transformative um perceptions and and knowings and digestions here is the very sense of
• so i can see what i usually sense is solid can i flip the perception so that i sent it as space as not solid
• elements of a training just what is it training the perception of space i'm training the perception of
• just what is it training the perception of space i'm training the perception of space space is not something that we
• beings habitually pay attention to so we're training a perception training and ability of what's more a more refined
• ability of what's more a more refined perception but the point i want to make is it's all training just the training
• is it's all training just the training of perceptions and the training has slightly different elements in it and

Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2- The Ending of the World -... 35 mentions

• short there is long okay so the idea the perception the concept of short brings with it
• so if we extend this a little bit you see that in life in our perception the occurrence or the perception of the
• see that in life in our perception the occurrence or the perception of the thickness of anything actually involves
• pulling towards us what we do like we we draw that out to perception so think about a whole list of dualities
• non-realizing of that we pull we pull that duality out to perception so something like silence and noise
• something in mind and it's inherent believing brings it out to perception pain and pleasure or you could say pain
• reacting with craving and that that actually draws the amount of perception i'm going to go into this
• blurry at the edges and then even begin to kind of fade from perception so the definition and the presence of
• we want to understand dependent arising that the appearance the perception of the thing was dependent on clinging
• the thing was dependent on clinging so the the thing the perception is dependent on clinging
• now what we're saying is the thing and the perception of the thing actually depends on the clinging the world does
• which is why you get these distorted perceptions um which is understandable because we
• actually builders of experience they're builders of the perception okay so whether we're clinging through
• building building things building objects of perception building reality self and the world
• is a very different thing but uh no i unders when the perceptions come back then i understand
• back then i understand that it uh to to have that perception there must be a fabricating going on
• then you emerge from that with the understanding that any perception at all is fabricated so if it's a mouse and if
• um we're just talking about what appears to perception so you've had an experience rose of your body fading in
• it makes less chips in my pile of nama rupa one one aspect which is perception okay less chips in the clinging less
• clinging less chips directly from ignorance into into perception you understand they're like each each one is
• you understand so perception vadna etc they're all dependent on the presence in that moment
• enough way that this illusion is less and so the appearance the perception part of namarupa perception
• and so the appearance the perception part of namarupa perception gets less
• the other option is to say anything that comes up just a perception you're just a perception you're just a perception the
• comes up just a perception you're just a perception you're just a perception the subtext of that is you are built you are
• fabricated i have seen how this perception is fabricated you're just a perception you're just a perception
• perception is fabricated you're just a perception you're just a perception very very powerful meditation very
• it's not just empty words you're just a perception although actually try it because sometimes it's just amazing
• what happens you just rab it on at something that's just a perception you know but anyway mostly it should be
• the eighth jungle it's called neither perception or non-perception the mind isn't even landing on a sense of
• what we are letting go of the self the world the objects the perceptions they are actually empty
• or about an object that anger colors my perception of the object clearly but without the
• object clearly but without the perception without the object i can't be angry it's got nothing to lean on
• it's even more interesting because all a mind state is is again perceptions and the appearance of a certain object
• appearance of things it's an appearance of things to consciousness as perception is empty