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An Ecology of Love (Part 4) - (An Ecology of Love) 29 mentions

• infinity of possibilities of view and perception and experience and kinds of love and
• view of self and a view of other any any level of perception any stage to which it arrives at and opens it
• um perceptions assumptions political systems whatever
• clinging um more and more deeply the perception of things self other world is fabricated
• to the degree that there's clinging in any moment of perception there's more fabrication to to the degree that
• one sees the intimate connections depends and colorizing of of perception and clinging the fabrication of
• and clinging the fabrication of perception i mean the fabrication of experience and appearance with clinging
• experience and appearance with clinging it starts to see oh perception is fabricated and oh it's fabricated to a
• to the exploration of the fabrication of perception and and from that our sense and our understanding of what things are
• empty of inherent existence my perception my sense of it depends depends on clinging depends on the way
• in terms of understanding experience understanding perception and what that does it opens up understanding enters
• which opens up the very possibilities of perception of what self other and world or nature is
• everything we can see more levels in in the perception if you like dimensions we can see more sacredness there is an
• openness and an opening of the perception through this way of approaching practice
• dimensions in our perception our sense our view of things so this is this is you know you cannot
• psychologus because it's wrapped up in in perception and ideation and the sense of things
• infusing our very sense of things a very image and perception of things so it connects horizontally eros helps
• vertically connects these dimensions of perception and and it does it in as we said in and through the particulars
• but there aren't the infinite varieties of perception possible um that come through the erotic kind of
• um ways of thinking um and our sense of perception of things of others of of nature of the world and
• um that in loving it we open up or the perception of it is opened up to what i'm calling other dimensions as
• um perceptions opened up through the imaginal through the fantasy through the
• this is the ecology of love that this opening up of the perception of the levels of perception the
• that this opening up of the perception of the levels of perception the enrichment of the sense of what it is
• the love opens up the the richness of perception the meta and the eros do do that in in different ways they open up
• the love the different dimensions the perception the experience the sense of the different dimensions the
• the earth those perceptions and feedback to the meta and the illness
• of the object is set up in this case of nature come into the perception and that allows other dimensions to our love
• um possibilities of perception of experience of knowing possibilities of

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 6 - Amitabha Buddha) - (The... 29 mentions

• different ways of ideas we can have about perception uh different ways conceptions we can have about perception
• about perception uh different ways conceptions we can have about perception and that we can conceive of it as a gift
• so amitabha goes with the aggregate of perception and that perception um in its let's say it's enlightened
• etymology etc they're intuitive vision may be imaginal perception the transformation of aggregate of
• transformation of aggregate of perception into imaginal perception to intuitive vision imaginal perception
• perception into imaginal perception to intuitive vision imaginal perception and the distinguishing wisdom there to
• an intuitive vision an imaginal perception that retains discriminating awareness distinguishing wisdom there
• but distinguishing means um perception does not melt into less fabrication a state of less fabrication
• uh distinguishing wisdom and the imaginal perception the intuitive perception this limitless appearances of
• imaginal perception the intuitive perception this limitless appearances of his name
• tunises so the world of imaginal perception the world of sensing the soul for the most
• part needs twonesses so this transubstantiation of a perception into distinguishing wisdom goes with the eros
• unchangeable what is it to put that world of imaginal perception uh opposite or balanced by in
• um mitaba at the buddha of the imaginal perception the deity the imaginal perception
• at the buddha of the imaginal perception the deity the imaginal perception um and and we just emptiness i don't
• world beyond this one as an imaginal perception or events or whatever happening in that world
• also uh if we think what gives rise to this perception this possibility this range of possibilities of ways of
• transmutation transubstantiation of the perception of the world so that it becomes the pure land of the buddha
• um the the supernal land is is an imaginal perception it's um potentially this land where i am now
• with the sense of the eternal half of that timeless perception when you're out of relationship with the divine
• world that everyone takes for granted the conventional perception of his historical material world and written
• the so so this is a matter of perception it's a matter of sensing with soul as we said
• transcendent of appearances and perceptions uh as the um as the interpretation of dharma thatu
• is unfabricated uh where there's no perception no appearance here we retain appearances
• so it's the state of the soul that allows this kind of perception ari colbert writes again
• the trees of the garden are all his possible perceptions of love and intelligence of the good and the truth
• enables us to open up these um these perceptions this sensing the soul this sensing of the pure land the lotus land
• devotion is the opening of the perception when you add up these
• with each other and all manner of um imaginal perception are opens all manner of sensing the soul or manner of

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 8 - Talking with Trees) - (The... 29 mentions

• soul and expand the open and deepen the perception and the sense as well as the idea the concepts of of
• iconic perception or perception of icon body as icon my body your body this body
• than there is in the nature of the iconic perception the nature of sensing the soul that sense of perfection
• throw it in now regarding matter and things and this perception or this sense and idea of a kind of plurality of
• ideas involved and and the ways of looking at perception and all that even if it's strange you may want to
• because because it is dumb to his dull perceptions again it's a matter of the is it a
• matter of the refinement the sensitivity of the perceptions and the openness of of of mind and sense
• hear and suggestions and and to our perceptions and that limits and conditions them
• soul and the enchantment of things that comes through that kind of perception but there is what we could call what we
• um perception knowing in any evolution of the relationship with any imaginal
• reverence and the kind of soulmaking perception foreign
• substance of um sensing the soul of soul making perception but you know again to amplify what we
• kind of dissolving the perception of particulars and particular personhoods everything
• other brand of horrors that the perception of particulars and uniquenesses begins to fade and there's
• um uh bring this kind of universal equality and oneness and the perception of that there's a quietening or a kind
• of discarding and then a fading of the perception of the individuality in particular
• one who realizes the dependent arising and dependent fading of the perception of the thing
• um if you like the the imaginal perception there the sensing the soul has to be uh connected on a level it has
• to generate in our language the the soul making of the perception of divinity the other senses and ideas of divinity
• to speak with beauty we participate in the perception of beauty we participate in the perception of
• the perception of beauty we participate in the perception of goodness
• are difficult and to justify with respect to soulmaking perceptions to the world with sensing the soul is
• because values are wrapped up in in um in the perceptions we have when we're sensing the soul we have the same issue
• ourselves from one day to the next on the truth or reality of our perceptions of value let alone agreeing with each
• so when we sense with soul when we have a marginal perception values are woven in and values one of the difficulties
• beauty love courage and ability sensing the soul involves a perception of values even if it's
• full of a sense of value and imaginal perception and unless you really believe that
• out of the conceptual structure comes the perception out of the perception um comes the the lack of affect and the
• conception through conception through perception and through action and behavior

Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 29 mentions

• if they absolutely insist that their perception there is is reflective of reality
• so the person perceptivity the capacity of perception the capacity of the the subtleties and nuance the capacity of
• and receptivity per perceptivity capacity of perception in relation to and conception in relation to music
• and soulfulness and importance and transfer that to the perception of nature
• nature and the perception of others in our lives or things or the cosmos
• important to us that can uh whose perception we can deepen and deepen and open and refine and enrich etc maybe the
• same with nature maybe the same with perception of others an imaginal perception that we're
• perception of others an imaginal perception that we're talking about when there's erotic
• someone describes something a mystical perception or a spiritual perception a matter of reception that's rubbish it
• any importance or please give them to imaginal perception and mystical perception spiritual perception etc
• imaginal perception and mystical perception spiritual perception etc there's a kind of secular crusade that
• um say who's keen to not give much place to imaginal perceptions either intra-psychically or in the uh in
• um pump up the imaginal or mystical perception or things that happen in meditation and all that or ideas about
• and mystical states of consciousness and perception and questioning the whole uh you know assumptions about reality etc
• um case for erasing and eradicating mystical perceptions and mystical notions and the amount any place for the
• touched by certain experiences imaginal openings and perceptions or meditative openings and experiences etc of all
• against these kind of openings of perception openings of ways of looking etc doesn't need to even say and i think
• this is a concept it's also a a a perception that i can have it's an experience if you like it's an imaginal
• experience if you like it's an imaginal perception um
• you know but where does imaginal perception shade into what we wouldn't consider
• consider imaginal perception we would just consider perception but an idea like
• imaginal perception we would just consider perception but an idea like participation for instance that this
• participate in the buddha nature through my imaginal perception or again or the eros that i feel and all
• that has an independent existence so we participate in perception we participate in the world that's perceived in the
• in the world that's perceived in the very perception of it we participate in the divinity we participate in actually
• and to seed and fertilize our experience our perception our understanding our heart our soul our minds and all of that
• that opens opens a perception opens experience opens the ideation opens the heart opens
• in as as being filled out by the imaginal perception or or there's a preoccupation with the
• other so that actually are sense and our concept and our perception then of flesh and body is is stuck at one level

Soulmaking Dyad Practice - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 29 mentions

• what is shared of what's happening of the perceptions happening and the possibility of voicing when you share it
• this meeting and the perception of self and other in in this time right now in this meeting
• in this time right now in this meeting and and the perception of that when it's sensed with soul
• and ignited sometimes and very very beautiful soulmaking perceptions and sometimes really difficult reactions or
• everything responds the energy the emotion the heart the the perception the soul the mind all of that
• it's just open to a field of um visual form and color and perception there
• um either the perception or the thoughts about the perception of or thoughts
• either the perception or the thoughts about the perception of or thoughts about the other's expression
• deliberately instigate or ignite that perception of the other of who is listening and looking at me or it might
• um critiquing what you've just shared or your perception or giving guidance or or feedback
• um energy perception or is it um is the energy perception
• energy perception or is it um is the energy perception an image it may be perceiving the energy
• when we're relating to energy and our perception of energy but more importantly right now just how
• um a a sudden shift into imaginal perception can then affect the whole field
• person so one person's imaginal perception in relation to another heals what what was conceived and felt
• dynamic of the euro psychologus dynamic with all the change in perception and perception of self and sense of self and
• with all the change in perception and perception of self and sense of self and sensing the soul and sensing of other
• soulmaking dyad that level of perception that level and and um type of fabrication and just in other
• normal range and the normal type of the fabrication and the perception of self another
• um and then all kinds of deeper perceptions of emptiness and all of these involve some degree of fabricating
• these involve some degree of fabricating of the self and of the perception of other
• third possibility is the um uh is soulmaking imaginal perception the sensing with the soul of self and
• far down that spectrum but it's an imaginal perception it's a sensing result of self another
• resonances if it's an imaginal perception um i don't just mean an intro psychic
• how much conventionally human uh perception versus more fully imaginal at any time
• and that will do something to the whole sensing the whole perception um or i may be able to see and sense my
• so one of the examples i gave before you know i i was in the imaginal perception my imaginal self relating to
• um of the imaginal into some kind of rarefied perception does my art extend to the ability to
• when not even just words but those perceptions that sensing itself is stored somehow eternally and you have a

Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 29 mentions

• little bit and we have a different sense of life a different perception of of the reality of things that can come and it
• reality of things that can come and it will go and it's a perception that can arise and fade
• happens to emotions to body sensations to our perceptions of things so this really is a practice it's very
• the mind state that we have at any time influences our perception so we we see uh you know we have this phrase seeing
• language is pointing to this insight that our whole perception is colored through the anger
• heaven realm so it's so much change the perception so anger colors are perception metacars
• so it's so much change the perception so anger colors are perception metacars the perception
• so anger colors are perception metacars the perception sometimes when we're angry with someone
• to kick in we can actually notice there may be a change of perception of the person of the situation why because
• notice the same thing perception of the object begins to change it changes with the degree of
• is not how things are that's a perception even if you remember that note that i
• love holding everything if if that opens up because that's just a perception it just arises from conditions
• hurry to let go of that kind of thing the power of those kind of perceptions to transform the heart and transform the
• enormous and if we hurry through and just say oh just a perception it's just condition just a fabrication and where
• do we go we actually just go straight back to the default perception which is i'm sitting here giving a talk and
• liberation comes through understanding something about how perceptions views ways of seeing are are fabricated
• so what we notice is if we change the view the perception changes the irritability goes from the
• because it's quite clear like anger the fear uh colors our perception of the object so we begin to see
• so in a way that's obvious fear colors the perception of the object but we also need reminding of it
• and using that current to um to to make an effect on perception it can be really clear and then it's
• um so grasping comes into grasp means part of perception put it that way it's part of perception no grasping no
• part of perception put it that way it's part of perception no grasping no perception
• part of perception no grasping no perception in the grasping her perception and and
• perception in the grasping her perception and and but it's extremely subtle and so uh in
• so when you say no grasping no perception that you're talking about when things
• goes into this practice and you really see no grasping no no perception it becomes a very real question i thought
• complete fading of everything all perception all notion of time or notion of subject object uh and anything at all
• we're sending compassion to dharma's their perceptions experiences rather than to beings yes so we can experiment
• sitting matter towards you know objects of perception whatever at you know maybe halfway through a sitting you may feel

Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 28 mentions

• the dimensionality given to them the the new openings of perception and view and sense and actual experience and what
• allows certain openings of the perception particularly in the tantric schools and opening to the clear
• arising the fabrication of the perception of the body and of sense experience
• certain ways to understand the dependent arising of the very perception of body and sense experience and in the
• practicing ways of looking that actually fabricate less perception of the body so for example the genres the the
• um progressively unfabricated perceptions of the body
• especially it's really about the body and the perception of the body the body is rather than being perceived as this
• and i'm still light often in in the fourth term very very refined perception of materiality and then in the fifth
• of materiality and then in the fifth genre that perception of solidity and whether it calls obstruction
• more so to speak is transcended even more and and there's no perception of solidity materiality of body at all and
• dimension where the eye ceases it said in the perception forms ceases etc as i quoted as many passengers
• interpretation and therefore sense of and perception of both body and sense experience
• and constrains the very sense and perception we have of both body and sense experience yes because experience
• sense experience yes because experience perception of both will be limited by view and concept and and interpretation
• a certain view a certain spin will will take the perception open in different directions but one way is just to think
• the sort of micro moments of vadana and perception and all the rest of it um both of these either the sort of
• uh or the atomistic reduction um perception conception both of them are realist right we've said all this
• dimension where the eye sees is where the ear ceases where the perception forms the perception of sound ceases etc
• the ear ceases where the perception forms the perception of sound ceases etc that we that we talked about the
• tantrism engages so there's a deliberate fabrication of perception enrichment if you like of perception a
• fabrication of perception enrichment if you like of perception a multi-dimensionalizing of perception etc
• you like of perception a multi-dimensionalizing of perception etc eros the imaginal and soulmaking comes
• deepen and give dimensions to the perception of and relationship with the senses whereas
• seeing what that does and what opens up in terms of perception and also being clear about what we talked about the
• receiving it tends towards uh the perception of oneness and not particularity and not the
• certain extent and it tends towards uh less of a perception of separation and distinction and towards more of a
• distinction and towards more of a perception of oneness of all things the sense objects then are not
• at some point though um we we have the perception and the sense and the kind of recognition that

Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 27 mentions

• expand our felt sense our felt perception of the range of of sacredness of what is sacred to us and our our felt
• and fantasy what is what's called esp extra sensory perception uh what's uh archetypal image what is the whole range
• of falls into mystical experiences that apostle in terms of perception of self other world
• the very sense and perception of the world that we live in
• poetry like making poetry there's an art to that perception and a malleability to the perception of the cosmos
• to that perception and a malleability to the perception of the cosmos so
• and realizing too that because the self is thoroughly empty the perception of the self and the sense of the self is
• this being or that being is showing right now through my perception through my imagination it's particular it's
• as a key that we can use to examine perception meaning examine appearances examine experiences
• opens up it invites a way of exploring perception which reveals the emptiness of perception the emptiness of
• perception which reveals the emptiness of perception the emptiness of appearance the malleability of
• so we're widening the whole range of perception and possibility of perception possibility of experience
• possibility of experience through an investigation of perception that's a different way of understanding
• re-enchant the perception of the self of other of cosmos to perhaps open up a sense or an
• those sort of injunctions or perceptions uh to see everything always as to see everything
• as all as one or to see it feel there's no self the perception that no self to be present to not cling all these are
• be present to not cling all these are rather modes they're modes of perception what i call ways of looking at temporary
• out there's a great flexibility of um the perception the way of looking so i can go into this way of looking and
• different ways they're all modes of perception modes temporary options of ways of looking as flexibility there
• looking so that the multiplicity of perception a a really large range of perception and
• so that the multiplicity of perception a a really large range of perception and experience is available to us as human
• conditions what i perceive and the range of perception opens up and we understand perception is empty we understand the
• of perception opens up and we understand perception is empty we understand the emptiness of all appearances through
• perceptual possibilities the flexibility of perception is also open perception of the self perception of other perception
• of perception is also open perception of the self perception of other perception of world and cosmos
• there's this malleability and multiplicity of the range of perception and the range of ways of looking modes
• um ways of looking fantasies into our perception of history so it's not it's not saying we can make

Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 27 mentions

• inexhaustibility of for instance an image or an uh the perception that we're having inexhaustible it's meaning
• will include the realm of imaginal perception and all that that implies and involves so it's said before you
• imaginal and the realm of imaginal perception of this beloved other of this erotic object whatever it is
• uh bigger as an image more complex as an as an imaginal perception there's more to be attracted to they're more
• pushed on to expand with the expansion of the imaginal perception you understand
• the word psychic to mean the totality of imaginal perception uh present in the moment okay and then
• particular kind of desire the totality of the imaginal perception the moment and the ideation wrapped up
• um validity or reality to the imaginal perception that i that i might have um then that will cause me to dismiss
• um then that will cause me to dismiss the imaginal perception and disempower it that way so it cannot feed back into
• know what the dharma is and if something happens in my perception which pushes the boundaries and starts to want to
• is right now in in whatever stage of perception or imaginal perception it delights in that it includes in that but
• would be a a present in the sensory contact in the imaginal perception in the appearance
• same time at the very same time that the object of the imaginal perception is expanding
• complicated widened enriched deepened in this in the uh imaginal perception in in the web of the imaginal perception
• this in the uh imaginal perception in in the web of the imaginal perception includes not just the object but also
• include the world it's like the imaginal perception spills over to imbue to fertilize the perception of the world
• perception spills over to imbue to fertilize the perception of the world yeah i'm not gonna say too much more
• imagining otherwise i'm including the imaginal dimensions in my perception of them not just the other but also the
• it wants to flow into the self it wants to impregnate the imaginal perception of the self give it dimensionality beauty
• soulmaking process and the opening of the imaginal perception so in the cosmop oasis and in that
• things that comes to our opens in our perception these are characteristics of equanimity by definition
• direction of lessening fabrication lessening the perception of the other lessening the perception of objects
• lessening the perception of the other lessening the perception of objects lessening the self of a divide the
• sees saw people as her beloved jesus so there's an imaginal perception there um
• of what is soulmaking and what it means to have an imaginal perception there's a problem here and it you know i
• in what it liberates in terms of the perception and the transformation and the dedication
• actually right there in the imaginal perception in other words i i think it's intrinsic too and again it's one of

Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 27 mentions

• delineations become clear to the perception of the sensitive soul of the sensibility that is refined through eros
• sense of the energy body and as we play with that perception different ways of looking play within our phenomenological
• um so that we realize there are imaginal dimensions to our perception of the body and this can happen uh directly and
• it gains imaginal dimension in in the percept the perception of the body gains imaginal dimensions directly
• involvement to include and involve the perception of the body there's a part of perhaps of the cosmoporosis
• so we realize as we do with all perception that there is an imaginal uh imaginal
• threads imaginal dimensions are involved in our perception of the world and of body and of everything
• as we can talk about imaginal earth we can talk about the imaginal perception of body and natural perception of earth
• can talk about the imaginal perception of body and natural perception of earth but whether directly or indirectly the
• yes the object of my sensing my perception the object of my vision of my touch
• all that also the object of my thought and the object of my imaginal perception all of that and of course those three
• all the way down to really dense solid perception of materiality and we're saying all of that spectrum is
• in other words that the imaginal perceptions um of the whole experience and the
• contraction there then the imagine imaginal perception imagine dimensions of other self and eros are diminished
• um so you know we could say that's an energetic perception of course is it's also an imaginal perception that they're
• energetic perception of course is it's also an imaginal perception that they're they're both mixed there
• their retreat on the poetry of perception i think music is a sound thing and hands
• the expansion of our sense our perception ideation of it so the images of the body that psyche
• um one of the ways the eros opens if you like and with that the perception of bodies opens um i remember being at a
• in the blood and something which would to most perception uh in terms of what the teacher was saying there'd be
• of the eros in the eros moving through moving through the perception moving through the body and also in the ways
• because there's no limit to soulmaking which means that the images perceptions ideas
• no limit to the way all that can open the images perceptions ideas understandings and experience of the
• the body imaginingly the imaginal perception of the body and that sensitivity there and the beauty of that
• what it becomes to us to our experience to our perception to our conception and that's a different question than
• how can the body be experienced in perception as an object and as a subject in its epistemic potentials
• and this sense of the body the experience the perception the concept can be expanded we can discover