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What is Awakening? (Part 2) - (The Mirrored Gates) 33 mentions

• and the processes of vadina and perception and mental formations and consciousness and moment to moment in
• touching no thinking imagining or mental perception um that sphere should be known
• um and other times he talks about it being beyond perception the cessation of perception
• being beyond perception the cessation of perception um
• passages in in the text and pointing to this kind of dimension beyond perception beyond the fabrication of perception and
• this kind of dimension beyond perception beyond the fabrication of perception and is it's clear that what the buddha is
• gives there's not the fabrication of perception and that dimension should be known in
• sense of various objects in my perception how does the world send get fabricated in what ways and and with
• a cessation experience the cessation of perception in other words the non-fabrication of perception
• perception in other words the non-fabrication of perception so an experience of what we could call
• in in a lot of cases the solidity of the body perception has disappeared but a lot of stuff is remaining
• lot of stuff is remaining for instance perception and subject and object and time and
• other stuff remaining um so for instance all perception form can disappear in the fifth genre it does
• nothing in in the seventh genre and nothing a perception of nothing is still remained so you see how subtle this gets
• cessation everything disappeared there was a cessation of all perception it goes very very deep in terms of the more
• goes very very deep in terms of the more refined perceptions that remain and that can then be transcended
• that cessation experience cessation of perception may or may not bring a freedom with it
• um devaluing of of the the world of perception um or or do or dualism there's that
• um to the dependent arising of perception that hasn't been a theme they've just been for instance
• worldly experience so different from the realm of perception which is all this and it seems to have nothing to do those
• and it seems to have nothing to do those two realms of perception and the transcending of perception fabricated in
• two realms of perception and the transcending of perception fabricated in the unfabricated seem to have nothing to
• dismissal and a disconnect from this life of perception from the fabricated world
• disappears but they see this movement of the fading relative fading of perception to different degrees may be really deep
• cessation of all um perception a complete unfabricating of of perception of all perception that
• um perception a complete unfabricating of of perception of all perception that understands moving up and down at some
• there's nothing else going on there's no all other perception has stopped um or at different times i i remember
• will know that in the uh why called after effects on perception of a different genre it's quite common for
• different genre it's quite common for that perception to to kind of shine through the world of the fabricated this
• through the world of the fabricated this world of experience and perception um and so what we can get is all kinds
• things there will be a cessation of fabrication of perception i won't perceive anything except the
• buddha get reborn into the world of perception so that he can save other beings and help them be there
• um in in the mind then there isn't the fabrication of perceptions how can you be in the world how is there a world

Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 33 mentions

• determining what is fabricated in perception through the way of looking in other words a way
• other world time space the whole show the whole magic show of perception is dependent on the kind amounts and levels
• even the unfabricated not even cessation of perception of feeling is really technically arrest from way of looking
• understanding of the nature of perception of fabrication of reality of emptiness it limits it hugely
• um the brought on perception by uh by this by changing ways of looking either to
• of looking shapes this or that perception or appearance all that but all there really is is a
• range of ways of looking whose effects on perception interest me and whose effects on perception particularly
• on perception interest me and whose effects on perception particularly regarding fabrication and dependent
• implicitly agree there is an unfabricated perception that we can be in contact with that can be revealed
• to me it goes all the way from papancha through everyday normal perception through quieter sort of more pristine
• experience any moment of appearance and perception or any any arising of any phenomena at all involved doing on the
• existing these two have massively different effects on perception when you're really regarding something
• things only certain fixed relationships and perception relationships with the world and
• relationships with the world and perceptions of self other world time etc so full liberation is a liberation of
• they show us more aspects we can see sense levels of them other perceptions of them psyche and logos the whole idea
• the whole conception of things the perception the conception psycheon logos the perception conception of things
• perception the conception psycheon logos the perception conception of things opens up and in that opening up of
• opens up and in that opening up of psychian logos of perception and conception
• deepest the widest again trusting that perception of meaningfulness and beauty enough to
• being body evading our perception mental formations and consciousness and
• about what's real what's not it gets woven into our perception of everything that's why i said before if you really
• ontological conception woven into the perception of anything but unless one has experienced
• one doesn't realize that ontology is woven into perception but it's inevitable and
• um not just body but the perception of forms and the perception perception
• not just body but the perception of forms and the perception perception itself and attention and contact and
• that depends on consciousness perception vadana depend on consciousness
• intention perception attention meaning to perception depends on consciousness
• perception attention meaning to perception depends on consciousness consciousness depends on perception
• perception depends on consciousness consciousness depends on perception vading that depends on consciousness
• things let's say consciousness and perception they're not two but neither are they one
• mutual dependent arising of nama rupa unconsciousness of perception vadana etc and consciousness
• practice possibilities of flexible ways of looking at perceptions for example of particular divinities not just the
• flexibility of ways of looking of perception that perceive and particular divinity and not

Selflessness and a Life of Love - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) 33 mentions

• between say a version and love we also notice the perception change the perception of the world changes this is
• notice the perception change the perception of the world changes this is where the emptiness bit comes in
• emotion any afflictive emotion brings with it a tendency for the perception to lock
• can i be interested in in affecting or encouraging a change in my perception is huge
• soften this locking locking of perception so
• resonance has the capacity to soften the locking of the perception and reminding ourselves
• cannot sustain because it wasn't there this perception of the situation is is not inherently real we say it
• implications is are so profound it means that our perception of things all things is flexible is malleable
• there is no fixed real independent of my perception independent of my heart and mind essence to things
• do you understand perception the way things are the way things seem depends on my heart it
• more it opens that possibility up when i see that my perception of other self situation is dependent on my heart
• because with the mind state comes the perception of others so innocent with aversion i
• looked at that i looked at them very different perception what a swing the range the range of human consciousness
• the range of the heart and the range of perception so mind stay influences perception of
• perception so mind stay influences perception of others
• others perception of others influences mind state and we can use that meaning if the
• state and we can use that meaning if the perception of other is actually not a real independent thing and if it's
• shaping nurturing certain kinds of perceptions of others because that will influence my mind's day and then there's
• empty let's let's incline a little bit towards a different kind of perception so
• with the spaciousness but it begins affecting our very again perception of phenomena perception of the world both
• affecting our very again perception of phenomena perception of the world both inner and outer
• for us as human beings to open to that kind of mystical perception it is an opening a change of perception
• kind of mystical perception it is an opening a change of perception that is kind of mystical
• somehow mystically is love this is a real palpable perception for people that's possible
• into this but in some way it's actually a truer perception we could say it's more real
• that emptiness and that beauty the perceptions that go with our non-love
• a little bit me those kind of perceptions in a way they seem so real but all that's the case is that they're
• it's not that they're real the perceptions of non-love of this or that being irritating or a problem or
• so we talk in some traditions like the purified conventional perception and what does that mean it means that
• in talk and unkindness interestingly uh feelings of unkindness perceptions of unkindness are actually they cannot
• the understanding of emptiness the perception of emptiness grows and with that this uh it becomes easier to love
• to to sustain that love because of the perception of emptiness and with that this what someone called divine
• independent way independent of my heart and my mind and my perception in other words we we begin to understand

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5) - (Path of the Imaginal) 33 mentions

• subtlest conceiving that's woven in with perception and so the idea sometimes of bear
• a lack of fully exploring the nature of perception and fabrication wherever there is perception remember i'm using
• perception and fabrication wherever there is perception remember i'm using the word perception uh synonymously with
• there is perception remember i'm using the word perception uh synonymously with experience and appearance i mean
• doesn't need to be verbal but it's wrapped up in in in perception itself conception perception conceiving
• but it's wrapped up in in in perception itself conception perception conceiving perceiving are wrapped up together
• sense of solidity what exactly do i mean a perception and through modern physics and when we
• sacred or not sacred or matter these are all perceptions this is the important thing they are
• um what we're talking about when we say sacred is a perception or rather a sensibility a way of looking
• so this actually is what should occupy us this this training of perception and regarding conceiving we want enough
• so regarding concept perception is the important thing the training perception we need enough
• perception is the important thing the training perception we need enough conception to allow that to grow and to
• is meditation is a training of the flexibility of perception so
• or or let me say this that in the training of of the perception there is a there's an opening of the range we've
• opening of the range of experience and perception then feeds back into the conceptual framework
• so there is not one correct um perception of god so to speak she might tend to think
• of the expansion of the range of perception of experience into all the different faces of the divine and
• and the recognition that we're talking about a perception we're never talking about anything other than perception
• about a perception we're never talking about anything other than perception everything is a hinges on perception and
• about anything other than perception everything is a hinges on perception and the fabrication of perception and
• everything is a hinges on perception and the fabrication of perception and understanding that and training as i
• open that open uh the being and the perception and the conception in certain ways and and that them can then tune to
• ways and and that them can then tune to the mystical perception the the image the mythos the cosmopoasis that's coming
• i don't know and and i i can be affected beautifully and open in the perception and the conceiving to open by all that
• um kind of mystical perception as an intuition it's a sense it's it's more
• transfiguring of of the physical um perception of the gardening as as we could say a transubstantiation it
• like that kind of cosmopoasis or opening uh perception of a different dimension um
• when i was tuning into that but then the mind loses it the perception loses it that happened many times but uh what i
• to act as triggers to infuse the perceptions of the world somehow and those images then those two images
• opening up of the range of the perception of self other and particularly of world
• possibilities suggest possibilities but it's really possibilities of perception of experience of sensibility supported
• much earlier in the tree opening the range of perception of experience of sensibility
• journey of opening up the range of perception of vision if you like experience

Healing the Imagination (Q & A) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 32 mentions

• borrow a phraser in the buddha the conjuring of consciousness of perception through the spell the magic spell
• body of an energy body and the penalizing of that perception and the dependent rising of how it feels
• quality it changes actually the experience and the perception of the energy body
• on dukkha on contraction on self-sense on perception and with that the question what can we
• when i look this way this is the perception when i look that way that's the perception so that deliberate
• perception when i look that way that's the perception so that deliberate flexibility of expiration arrays looking
• satisfaction and satisfaction us they come from the perception of anita things are imperf things are unsatisfactory
• emptiness ways of looking fabrication of perception as as a basis as a basic understanding present at even the most
• revealing to us because of the effects on perception revealing to us um dependent origination of things and
• pen origination fabrication of perception and with that or another way of saying that is the emptiness of all
• energy body on the soulmaking on the perceptions of self of other of world etc what exactly are the effects and why
• uh more subtle uh more refined perceptions this is what i mean by by more subtle
• they are increasingly refined perceptions they're more and more subtle perceptions what the buddha
• refined perceptions they're more and more subtle perceptions what the buddha calls perception attainment
• more subtle perceptions what the buddha calls perception attainment yeah and similarly with as insight goes
• um less and less fabrication of perception as i lessen the solidity and coarseness
• and um density and thingness to perception so so whether through the spectrum of
• the genres or through the deepening inside perception is fabricated less and so necessarily becomes more and more
• the body space in the mental space in the perception there is this increasing subtlety of attention so right there for
• um the enchanted perceptions the cosmic faces are not usually habitual uh the
• um images and cosmopoases cosmopoetic perceptions if you like are openings will happen spontaneously as i said out
• and nor is the point actually trying to achieve any particular perception of the a red etheric light body or a
• i don't see the point of all this as achieving any particular perception rather though it's through all these
• calling the attitude of art or poetry in relation to perception through the exploration of that attitude and through
• exploration of the attitude of art if you like in relation to perception of poetry and poetry of perception
• you like in relation to perception of poetry and poetry of perception through all that a sense
• be of these experiences or senses or perceptions or knowing they're plural however diverse the range however varied
• um through the flexibility we just alluded to but a sense a perception knowing or senses perceptions knowing
• alluded to but a sense a perception knowing or senses perceptions knowing has come of
• this knowing perception sense of sacredness and actually we're talking about um a
• even if timelessness is different uh perceptions of timelessness of eternity the beauty of sacredness
• the beauty of sacredness and these perceptions these knowings these senses they themselves open they

The Art of Perception - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 32 mentions

• borrow a phraser in the buddha the conjuring of consciousness of perception through the spell the magic spell
• body of an energy body and the penalizing of that perception and the dependent rising of how it feels
• quality it changes actually the experience and the perception of the energy body
• on dukkha on contraction on self-sense on perception and with that the question what can we
• when i look this way this is the perception when i look that way that's the perception so that deliberate
• perception when i look that way that's the perception so that deliberate flexibility of expiration arrays looking
• satisfaction and satisfaction us they come from the perception of anita things are imperf things are unsatisfactory
• emptiness ways of looking fabrication of perception as as a basis as a basic understanding present at even the most
• revealing to us because of the effects on perception revealing to us um dependent origination of things and
• pen origination fabrication of perception and with that or another way of saying that is the emptiness of all
• energy body on the soulmaking on the perceptions of self of other of world etc what exactly are the effects and why
• uh more subtle uh more refined perceptions this is what i mean by by more subtle
• they are increasingly refined perceptions they're more and more subtle perceptions what the buddha
• refined perceptions they're more and more subtle perceptions what the buddha calls perception attainment
• more subtle perceptions what the buddha calls perception attainment yeah and similarly with as insight goes
• um less and less fabrication of perception as i lessen the solidity and coarseness
• and um density and thingness to perception so so whether through the spectrum of
• the genres or through the deepening inside perception is fabricated less and so necessarily becomes more and more
• the body space in the mental space in the perception there is this increasing subtlety of attention so right there for
• um the enchanted perceptions the cosmic faces are not usually habitual uh the
• um images and cosmopoases cosmopoetic perceptions if you like are openings will happen spontaneously as i said out
• and nor is the point actually trying to achieve any particular perception of the a red etheric light body or a
• i don't see the point of all this as achieving any particular perception rather though it's through all these
• calling the attitude of art or poetry in relation to perception through the exploration of that attitude and through
• exploration of the attitude of art if you like in relation to perception of poetry and poetry of perception
• you like in relation to perception of poetry and poetry of perception through all that a sense
• be of these experiences or senses or perceptions or knowing they're plural however diverse the range however varied
• um through the flexibility we just alluded to but a sense a perception knowing or senses perceptions knowing
• alluded to but a sense a perception knowing or senses perceptions knowing has come of
• this knowing perception sense of sacredness and actually we're talking about um a
• even if timelessness is different uh perceptions of timelessness of eternity the beauty of sacredness
• the beauty of sacredness and these perceptions these knowings these senses they themselves open they

Developing Piti, Developing Focus, Developing Wellbeing - (Practising the Jhānas) 31 mentions

• there's less fabrication of the bodily perception somebody i'll come back to this it's
• fabricating there is less fabrication of perception less fabrication of self but certainly this fabrication of dukkah
• there's less fabrication of bodily perception and there's less fabrication of any perception at all and that's what
• perception and there's less fabrication of any perception at all and that's what the whole spectrum of the genres you can
• the body as pt is is a less fabricated perception of the body or we could say another way is the
• the intention intentions set up the flavor of perceptions if that wasn't my intention the noise
• diamond if i have this intention it will have these consequences on my perception it will likely have these consequences
• believing about what is or is it a fabricated perception the answer is yes
• mind in my life i know this is a fabricated perception and i know how to fabricate it differently at least at
• meditation and i can deliberately play with the perception there's that key phrase play with perception i can play
• with the perception there's that key phrase play with perception i can play with perception and perceive the
• phrase play with perception i can play with perception and perceive the unpleasant as pleasant
• training training through playing with perception so one can one way of doing that is you
• stillness or whatever what did the buddha say perception attainment
• attainment the genres are perception attainment what's the best way of thinking about it
• what's the best way of thinking about it playing with perception we're playing with perception this is
• playing with perception we're playing with perception this is um as i said already this is way more
• of things about ways of looking about fabrication about perception again that's the key word about playing with
• that's the key word about playing with perception this is absolutely fundamental to
• experience the experience of the body again back to this perception thing really one way of conceiving what
• genre the bodily experience the bodily perception becomes pt my experience with my body is a body of
• pleasant and again playing with perception you can actually just decide to see it as pleasant
• just play with that play with the perception we're back to this idea of malleability again of playing with
• malleability again of playing with perception in
• playing can play all these different ways play all these perceptions that's what awakening is awakening is not
• malleability of mind state the malleability of perception playing with perception when we're doing that
• malleability of perception playing with perception when we're doing that we're actually practicing a path
• pt is a way of perceiving the body it's a perception of body it's a perceptual skill
• it's a perception attainment as the buddha might say it's a magician's art
• spreading and enjoying and other things or perception playing like we said so at any time in the
• well-being through playing with perception and all that stuff yeah they're kind of separate but

The First Jhana, and Playing and Working in (and out of) any Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 31 mentions

• there's less fabrication of the bodily perception somebody i'll come back to this it's
• fabricating there is less fabrication of perception less fabrication of self but certainly this fabrication of dukkah
• there's less fabrication of bodily perception and there's less fabrication of any perception at all and that's what
• perception and there's less fabrication of any perception at all and that's what the whole spectrum of the genres you can
• the body as pt is is a less fabricated perception of the body or we could say another way is the
• the intention intentions set up the flavor of perceptions if that wasn't my intention the noise
• diamond if i have this intention it will have these consequences on my perception it will likely have these consequences
• believing about what is or is it a fabricated perception the answer is yes
• mind in my life i know this is a fabricated perception and i know how to fabricate it differently at least at
• meditation and i can deliberately play with the perception there's that key phrase play with perception i can play
• with the perception there's that key phrase play with perception i can play with perception and perceive the
• phrase play with perception i can play with perception and perceive the unpleasant as pleasant
• training training through playing with perception so one can one way of doing that is you
• stillness or whatever what did the buddha say perception attainment
• attainment the genres are perception attainment what's the best way of thinking about it
• what's the best way of thinking about it playing with perception we're playing with perception this is
• playing with perception we're playing with perception this is um as i said already this is way more
• of things about ways of looking about fabrication about perception again that's the key word about playing with
• that's the key word about playing with perception this is absolutely fundamental to
• experience the experience of the body again back to this perception thing really one way of conceiving what
• genre the bodily experience the bodily perception becomes pt my experience with my body is a body of
• pleasant and again playing with perception you can actually just decide to see it as pleasant
• just play with that play with the perception we're back to this idea of malleability again of playing with
• malleability again of playing with perception in
• playing can play all these different ways play all these perceptions that's what awakening is awakening is not
• malleability of mind state the malleability of perception playing with perception when we're doing that
• malleability of perception playing with perception when we're doing that we're actually practicing a path
• pt is a way of perceiving the body it's a perception of body it's a perceptual skill
• it's a perception attainment as the buddha might say it's a magician's art
• spreading and enjoying and other things or perception playing like we said so at any time in the
• well-being through playing with perception and all that stuff yeah they're kind of separate but

Insight Ways of Looking, Other Energy Body Possibilities, and Summarized Instructions -... 31 mentions

• there's less fabrication of the bodily perception al i'll come back to this it's such an
• fabricating there is less fabrication of perception less fabrication of self but this fabrication of dukkha definitely is
• less fabrication of self there's less fabrication of bodily perception and there's less fabrication of any
• there's less fabrication of any perception at all and that's what the whole spectrum of the genres you can
• the body as pt is is a less fabricated perception of the body or we could say another way is the
• the intention intentions set up the the flavor of perceptions if that wasn't my intention the noise
• diamond if i have this intention it will have these consequences on my perception it will likely have these consequences
• about what is or is it a fabricated perception the answer is yes
• mind in my life i know this is a fabricated perception and i know how to fabricate it differently at least at
• meditation and i can deliberately play with the perception there's that key phrase play with perception i can play
• with the perception there's that key phrase play with perception i can play with perception and perceive the
• phrase play with perception i can play with perception and perceive the unpleasant as pleasant
• training training through playing with perception so one can one way of doing that is you
• stillness or whatever what did the buddha say perception attainments
• attainments the john is our perception attainment what's the best way of thinking about it
• what's the best way of thinking about it playing with perception we're playing with perception this is
• playing with perception we're playing with perception this is um as i said already this is way more
• of things about ways of looking about fabrication about perception again that's the key word about playing with
• that's the key word about playing with perception this is absolutely fundamental to
• experience the experience of the body again back to this perception thing really one way of conceiving what
• genre the bodily experience the bodily perception becomes pt my experience of my body is a body of pt
• pleasant and again playing with perception you can actually just decide to see it as pleasant
• just play with that play with the perception we're back to this idea of malleability again of playing with
• malleability again of playing with perception in
• playing can play all these different ways play all these perceptions that's what awakening is awakening is not
• malleability of mind state the malleability of perception playing with perception when we're doing that
• malleability of perception playing with perception when we're doing that we're actually practicing a path
• pity is a way of perceiving the body it's a perception of body it's a perceptual skill
• it's a perception attainment as the buddha might say it's a magician's art
• spreading and enjoying and other things or perception playing like we said so at any time in the
• well-being through playing with perception and all that stuff yeah they're kind of separate but

Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned - (Meditation on Emptiness) 30 mentions

• the old texture of experience and perception changes the highs and depths of consciousness
• thing fading about this phenomena of fading of perception experience thing fading
• less push and pull uh with practice the experience is perceptions fade uh as there's less selfing less
• identification similarly the experience the perceptions of aid and as there's less delusion as well the experiences
• will be this continuum of fading let's continue with the fading of perception now to move on that continuum i think
• infinite space infinite consciousness nothingness neither perception or obsession classical genres that is
• actually a spectrum of fading it's a spectrum of fading of perception except the body sense gets more subtle
• except the body sense gets more subtle more refined but body perception gets more refined and then and then the
• where literally where the eye stops where vision stops and the perception of form fades that dimension should be
• known where the ear where hearing stops and the perception of sound fades where the nose stops and the perception of
• and the perception of sound fades where the nose stops and the perception of aroma fades where the tongue stops and
• aroma fades where the tongue stops and the perception of flavor fades where the body stops and the perception of tactile
• the perception of flavor fades where the body stops and the perception of tactile sensation fades where the intellect or
• sensation fades where the intellect or mind stops and the perception of ideas or phenomena fades that dimension should
• suitor i think but he's talking about going beyond the perception of the four elements the perception of
• going beyond the perception of the four elements the perception of um
• um the perception of material form going beyond the perception of everything or
• the perception of material form going beyond the perception of everything or because it that all or the totality and
• because it that all or the totality and going beyond the perception of all those eight genres
• uh this um way that perceptions experience object all that is fabricated as i've
• building of the world of experience the world of perception and consciousness etc in the in the usual way
• in other words to understand aggregates such such as for invading a perception etc such as origination such its
• first one would fall consciousness and perception consciousness
• degree of conviction that things are built that the experience perception object thing is empty because it's built
• um you realize any self-sense any perception experience object any time sense any consciousness is all
• form vadana perception mental formations unconscious are like someone painting on
• in other words spiritual so it's not luminosity as a perception the spiritual brilliance of that truth
• real mind is expressed in these perceptions it neither forms part of them nor is separate from them
• fine beautiful and ugly as dualities and those perceptions in other words mental processes of
• in other words mental processes of perception the perceptions of form are all brought to an end they're all