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Attitude, Effort, Achievement, and View - (Practising the Jhānas) 27 mentions

• described the genres at times as perception attainments perception attainment and
• perception attainments perception attainment and what we are doing i would say the
• all this is that we're playing with perception and and in that playing a perception
• perception and and in that playing a perception certain perception attainments uh will
• and and in that playing a perception certain perception attainments uh will be opened
• so this idea of perception attainment and the idea of playing with perception
• idea of perception attainment and the idea of playing with perception that
• understand that jannah says we're playing with perception and then perception attainments are open through
• playing with perception and then perception attainments are open through our playing with perception this
• perception attainments are open through our playing with perception this integrates completely into our
• the most important thing in the dharma is perception understanding perception and playing with perception and you can
• is perception understanding perception and playing with perception and you can construe of the whole dharma as actually
• being primarily interested in that playing with perception everything even things that sound like they have
• an exploration of playing with perception and then a taking of certain conclusions and certain liberations from
• that what do i mean by perception often perception sanya is the pali word and
• what do i mean by perception often perception sanya is the pali word and often it gets translated as something
• um that's not at all what i mean when i when i say perception by perception i mean i do not mean labeling
• um i mean by perception i mean it's an equivalent term for experience
• interchangeably phenomenon interchangeably experience perception appearance experience phenomenon
• appearance experience phenomenon so perception attainment is um
• experience the fabrication of appearance energy is a is a fabricated perception a fabricated appearance it's not energy
• fabricating of experience appearance perception the eighth genre is actually that's a bad example we'll come back to
• certain fabrication percept uh fabrication of perception experience appearance
• life is the fabrication of perception experience appearance meditation is the exploration
• appearance meditation is the exploration of the fabrication of perception experience appearance
• or that kind of genre perception attainment and that has everything to do with
• energy rethink janna rethink dharma in terms of perception which as i said doesn't mean labeling

Sensing with Soul (Part 4) - (The Mirrored Gates) 26 mentions

• familiar with deep emptiness practices instead of actually all perception begins to fade that's actually too much
• begins to fade that's actually too much because sensing the soul is a perception of course and as is internal imaginal
• of course and as is internal imaginal perception any sensing so interest like extra extra involves the fabrication of
• extra extra involves the fabrication of perception so there can't be too much of a reduction in clinging because then all
• a reduction in clinging because then all perception or most perception will fade certainly the level that we call sensing
• um idea or a certain perception or in energetic relationship with something
• of the aspect of the perception there of the imaginal perception of the sensing result
• perception there of the imaginal perception of the sensing result now these four elements are often going
• factors in our you know being in our perception and vice versa when there is a lessening of
• loosening of clinging which allows a loosening of perception a a lessening of fabrication less clinging less
• you like the perception the sensing so that it becomes more soulmaking more soulful
• um self and world as well as other are included in the imaginal perception here in the sensing result so it's not
• as you and i merged and and this food perception in other words she had the perceptionist food perceptually had the
• the operation and all this and there's a transformation of perception of self um world and its involvement in all this
• um and the food they have actually had the perception the sensing of the food as the potential to heal you and she
• um the what we might call the conventional perception of the physical or material world and the things in that
• um that what we call conventional perception it's just that a dimensionality or dimensionality
• we're sensing the soul it is actually possible to have two perceptions at once um again one kind of very conventional
• um again one kind of very conventional sort of level perception if you like of what
• body of a certain color all kinds of possibilities and that perception um is possible at the same time as the
• um is possible at the same time as the normally conventional perception of the sensations and even maybe the visual
• sensations and even maybe the visual perception of one sitting in where everyone's sitting on the on the cushion
• um and at the same time there's an imaginal perception of them of him of her then uh
• um it's all infinite possibilities there um and that perception sensorially might be quite vague in other words it might
• so imaginal perception the imaginal sensing the soul whatever we can call it right
• the sensing with soul through the imaginal perception yeah the sensing result puts the dukkah

From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 1) - (Eros... 26 mentions

• divinity into divinity if you like so that it becomes both a perception and a concept that my eros this eros that i am
• deep emptiness of all things that taught the opening into the perception the cultivation of the perception of the
• the opening into the perception the cultivation of the perception of the divinity of all things as i say in the
• in experience and perception and conception and soulmaking
• begin to recognize fabrication of self of perception of world of all of that we begin to understand dependent
• the walls of concept the walls of vision the walls of perception that i was enclosed in have now just crashed open
• fertilize our perception or sensibility our conceptions
• unfabricated transcends um perception transcend space time a sense of self of other of any object
• what transcendent to our usual perception is the main point um and as i said we've talked a lot
• fabricate to understand how to fabricate less and less perception eventually open up to that to that transcendent
• um an increasing fullness if you like of the perception of divinity in the realm of perception
• the perception of divinity in the realm of perception and in all kinds of ways
• and different possibilities for that perception uh open up but
• that is more than what is obvious to the normal untrained modernist perception unless it's approved scientifically
• untrained perception of a a a westerner today in our modernist culture
• eventually the cessation of the fabrication of perception in um
• what we want is something that we that's beyond all fabrication or perception therefore in in the usual sense
• origination of namarupa of which perception is a part moravia more perception more solidity
• perception is a part moravia more perception more solidity etc of perception more forms more
• moravia more perception more solidity etc of perception more forms more delineation lesser video it quietens
• down noah feature no perception when a buddha is the only person this
• distinctions and delineations and ways of looking no perception is possible there isn't any perception without some
• of looking no perception is possible there isn't any perception without some conception which involves distinction
• distinction discrimination conception is involved in perception perception implies ways of looking
• conception is involved in perception perception implies ways of looking there is no nothing arises is fabricated
• reality if you like there's no perception independent of these there's no experience independent of ways of

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 1) - (The Mirrored Gates) 26 mentions

• our time uh it's not those kinds of perceptions those kinds of openings
• um creep in or or a tendency to want to dismiss at times and the perceptions the sensibilities the senses that have
• ideas or concepts are present in all and any perception all and any experience all and any
• conceptions are present in that they shape moreover they shape our perception our experience their shape appearances
• and they're part of the fabrication of all and any perception experience and appearance
• i'm not even sure we can actually call an experience or a perception but any and all and any other
• but any and all and any other um uh perception experience appearances um uh in involve uh intimately and
• path of exploration that explores fabrication of perception and ways of looking together and in the course of
• that this is the case no conception no perception no conception no fabrication of
• no conception no fabrication of perception and what we perceive what the experience
• experience an animal appearance perception ideas concepts are present in in a
• when we come to sensing the soul and imaginingly imaginal perception those kinds of sensing those kinds of
• those kinds of sensing those kinds of experiences and perceptions also include ideas
• about the ideas that influence us and influence our perceptions are than our experience and our
• the soul or images or imaginal perception and that
• practice possibilities for imaginal perception sensing results specific possibilities that might easily be
• completely believe in this um objective perception of reality um but notice he also said the reality
• haven't worked that out in a way that really shapes our perceptions at all so i want to um
• um opening or closing possibilities for perception and interaction and relationship with the world
• sensing of experience of validation of experience and perception um but it is complex i think
• um your happiness or your suffering or your perception of beauty or whatever oh you're meaningfulness so you're being
• and so is soulfulness and so is the sense and perception and the thought and conception of divinity
• disrespect all have equal value um so the perception of divinity beauty um
• practice they shape and limit our um perception of self other world um experience they shape how we sense
• part of the idea that influences the perception it's a perspective it's one perspective
• stimulates and stretches and expands and deepens our ideas and perceptions of things in sensing we solve

Sensing with Soul (Part 5) - (The Mirrored Gates) 26 mentions

• of lessening of fabricate the fabrication of perception some degree of loosening of kind of
• quiet period of time so what's actually involved in imaginal perception what's actually involved in sensing the soul
• soulmaking practice and sensing the soul in an imaginal perception so that's the end of the little review
• certain point um her perception shifted into an imaginal perception or in others she was
• um her perception shifted into an imaginal perception or in others she was sensing with so she was sensing me with
• how i'm seeing right now she was quite struck by the perception and the sort of numinosity there and luminosity and the
• numinosity there and luminosity and the beauty of that in her perception and uh communicating of of that of her
• and uh communicating of of that of her perception in this case of me but communion that to me in in in the moment
• was feeling um did something to my perception of um
• concerned about so that her communicating that perception to me is not so much that i picked up that exact
• not so much that i picked up that exact perception and saw myself um iconically the authentically as image
• triggered by her communication of her imaginal perception i was able actually to perceive the life of the work more
• imaginal field from her um or her perception her communication and that perception that imagine
• um or her perception her communication and that perception that imagine perception ignited not the same
• and that perception that imagine perception ignited not the same perception but uh if you like a related
• perception ignited not the same perception but uh if you like a related perception perhaps but a different
• perception but uh if you like a related perception perhaps but a different perception in me imagined me
• perception perhaps but a different perception in me imagined me um and so i was in i had been in this
• beyond ourselves that opens if you like turns the key in our perception so that we are then able to perceive to sense
• through these words was an imaginal perception or a sensing with soul of the memory of the whole scene and account of
• the skype where i what ignited for me was a slightly different perception in this case it was the same image
• there's nothing redeeming in it and something shifted in this perception it wasn't my as a shared batman it wasn't
• we even use that word um the truth of that imaginal perception the truth of sensing what happened with
• um has shifted the whole both of them are in this new perception the whole sense of what was and is present the
• sense of what was and is present the perceptions the cells and about others objects events uh the world
• it can become enough as a vague metaphor to be itself an imaginal perception that opens up then the sensing of the problem

Pain, as Void and as Sacrament - (In Psyche's Orchard) 26 mentions

• any moment of experience which means any moment of perception which means any moment of appearance or phenomena
• genre and the thing that i'm giving most attention to the the primary perception um and if one's familiar enough with the
• based on my familiarity with that perception from my janik experience
• where you could say coloring the perception of an air we're changing the perception of an error it is a kind of
• perception of an air we're changing the perception of an error it is a kind of magic
• of vasana of perception in this case of pain
• this is possible the perception is malleable that vadana is malleable
• for example in some of those when we play with perception in a way that we're just seeing consciousness
• unfabricating it's not a complete cessation of perception and vadana but it's very deep it's gone beyond the
• but it's very deep it's gone beyond the vaden of pleasure the perception of pleasure
• something empty and i understand it means fabricated or just a perception or empty of having inherent existence
• phenomenal reality any experience any appearance any perception any vaden excuse me
• the complete fading of all perception and all raider is real
• unfabricating of a phenomenal world of perception and vape we come to a deep realization
• so beautiful as that those openings and those perceptions are at the level of what i call the
• average in it then that phenomenon fate there's no perception of that phenomenon there's less avija therefore well
• there's no object therefore no no perception so the question is
• um how can a buddha then be reborn into the world of perception how can they be in the world or at least an emanation of
• which means there needs to be a world then you see the perception of a world so some somewhere is an arah hunt
• reborn as well or the world of perception is reborn can't help so i can't have infinite
• looking at will will fade will disappear the perception won't get fabricated or we have to back off that pedal and let
• that way you're mimicking the the buddha mind the buddha perception and as i explained earlier then it's
• looking the playing with perception with janik qualities
• again doing this can really open up the malleability of perception and the sense of
• divinity of perception mixing love with emptiness and again uh
• remember i remember that included some aspect for my mind and perceptions because it was actually that was what

"To see no-thing is to see excellently" - (Meditation on Emptiness) 25 mentions

• fact to be seen and discovered in meditation of perception meaning experience or object for consciousness
• experience or object for consciousness perception experience object for consciousness dissolving and failing and
• even would agree hopefully that our perceptions of the way things are are shaped certainly or colored certainly by
• to see the reality of something in other words my perception or perception shaped and colored and it's not like there's a
• it is no matter how subtle how gross this thing perception object cannot be uh it cannot be without being built
• even deeper this goes for perception also evading i'll come back to that that seems it may
• seeing how if i don't support the perception the thing the object for consciousness in certain ways it fades
• the stillness as an object it's a perception it's a thing it's an object for consciousness and i and i
• boredom whatever it is see these two are we say fabricated perceptions they're fabricated perceptions they cannot
• we say fabricated perceptions they're fabricated perceptions they cannot support themselves without the mind
• support themselves without the mind supporting their perception in a certain way
• of scientific experiment is experience perception object thing whatever name we give to it is a
• happened is one hasn't been supporting the perceptions of the more normal reality and actually taking away the
• without maybe even realizing it and so the whole of perception just fades and it gets to be space or nothing or
• created that hole what then happens is it feeds back on our perception of the parts and it feeds back in the way of
• foreign this goes on this is the way perception works is what we fall for
• is less and and the perception to will begin to loosen to desolidify to unfabricate
• the kandas body percept body radiant perceptions mental formations and consciousness
• robotic body we've talked about vading a little bit perception grasping uh you know grasping and thing or grasping
• one who does not see feelings does not see perceptions does not see mental formations and intentions does not see
• does not see feelings does not see perceptions does not see mental formations or intentions does not see
• so what i perceive i feel it has a feeling to perception of aid and not separate
• where does the awareness of something end and the uh and the perception of it begin consciousness and perception are
• end and the uh and the perception of it begin consciousness and perception are they you know are they separatable
• meditation but there's a sense to perception of it just dissolving the walking is actually dissolving

Approaching the Dharma: Part Two - Liberating Ways of Looking - (November Solitary) 25 mentions

• this very example and what is the perception of not self he's asking a group of monks and what is the
• group of monks and what is the perception of not self hear a practitioner having gone to the
• and all that we just went through this is called the perception of not self other examples here includes
• it's a way of perceiving what is the perception of not-self and then he says this is a perception you should train
• perception of not-self and then he says this is a perception you should train we're training a perception or if we say
• this is a perception you should train we're training a perception or if we say we're training a way of looking
• repeatedly the perception the way of looking is tuning into
• begins to feel uh or to seem one has the perception that the phenomena arising in this space of awareness it's not just
• so there's an insight arising there into the whole nature of perception and reality these things self selves and
• their trainings training the perception um
• did you notice this yes we noticed that so there's some law of perception laws of perception operating here
• so there's some law of perception laws of perception operating here it's as if the way of looking yeah where
• subtle the same with self the same with clinging the same with perception of things the experience of things so all
• clinging self perception avija ignorance all of it
• disappears there's a fading of experience of perception of everything that is fabricated of
• subtle views and conceptions always wrapped up with the perception which means the experience of anything if
• whenever to repeat again whenever there's perception whenever there's experiences sensation no matter how
• it's fabricated it's a fabricated perception and that fabrication involves doing it
• abandons desire abandons and there's the fading of perception i can't live without experience perception
• fading of perception i can't live without experience perception there's always life is perception
• without experience perception there's always life is perception experience and when there is perception
• there's always life is perception experience and when there is perception experience there's always a way of
• or or idea of dependent origination here we mean a thing a perception is dependent on the mind
• start to realize there's a degree of malleability in our perception and our sense of things that's way way beyond
• in the moment on dukkah on the self sense on perception and experience so their practices

The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 1) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 25 mentions

• worthless not valuable not valid etc and if the kinds of perceptions and senses involved in what we call sensing
• real worthless etc uh then those kinds of perceptions and what they bring to the soul and the
• respect so if for example the kinds of senses of things and perceptions the kinds of knowing let's say that we
• again there's this parallel with is is a is our perception as human beings is it a passive receiving is there even such a
• wrote about uh paradigm is prerequisite to perception a paradigm is prerequisite to perception
• to perception a paradigm is prerequisite to perception itself he wrote meaning that we're
• paradigm whatever that paradigm is so that what we see perception depends on that paradigm
• um soulfulness and meaningfulness and the sense and perception and the conception and thought of divinity
• meaningfulness because sense of divinity the perception of divinity um all are merely the movement and
• or disrespecting all have equal value perception of divinity soul as much as physical pain
• ultimate truth you can't explain perception ultimately a certain conventional level you can
• a certain conventional level you can explain perception as fabrication and how that works phenomenologically etc
• uh until next thomas kuhn quote a paradigm is prerequisite to perception itself
• or this insight or this reasoning or that uh perception or whatever it is um it has to be personal
• you know what you can trust in terms of your perception um if you're you know reading
• and these strange sort of spiritual or so-called soulful perceptions of things this sensing with soul or whatever
• to say that all way of lookings and perceptions have equal epistemological and ontological validity
• do i trust that that insight that perception it's going that that trust you know is
• um uh methodological baggage etc tendencies of perception tendencies of observation habits
• material in the soil for for creativity um in terms of perception in terms of how we relate to the world in terms of
• talk about sensing the soul and imaginal perceptions and so the poet wb yates wrote something
• imagine practice and the perceptions we have of the world through sensing soul
• sensing images and soulmaking perceptions to sensing the soul um as neither real nor not real so we
• rarefied or a sensing the soul perception is rarefied or literalized so again we can look to the effects to
• trust in the reality of certain perceptions and senses we have of things when we sense we solve

'The Holy Life' (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 25 mentions

• um what is beyond the perception of any kind of world
• known where the eye ceases and perception of forms fades away that sphere that dimension should be
• understood and known where the ear ceases and the perception of sounds fade away that sphere should be understood
• should be known where the nose ceases and the perception of smells where the tongue ceases an obsession taste where
• tongue ceases an obsession taste where the body ceases and the perception of tactile objects fades away that sphere
• should be known where the mind ceases and perception of mental phenomena fades away
• beyond there is the giving up of this entire field of perception there is the inferior meaning ordinary
• there is the inferior meaning ordinary perception of the ordinary world there is the superior the perception of if you
• perception of the ordinary world there is the superior the perception of if you like higher worlds the perception of
• is the superior the perception of if you like higher worlds the perception of um the what what are called the fine
• the giving up of this entire field of perception the entire field of experience of things objects
• unpleasant neutral intention contact perception experience in short where nama rupa experienced together with
• nama rupa experienced together with impingement and the perception of form cease without trace it is there that the
• senses beyond the body beyond sensation beyond perception experience beyond all the movements of the mind beyond beyond
• and demolish vadeness sensation smash destroy and demolish perception smash destroy and demolish sankara mental
• apparent body apparent uh sensations perceptions mental formations and consciousness smash it destroy it
• is life as we consider it without sense perception and the five aggregates the same form
• and the five aggregates the same form vaden and perception sankara consciousness
• sphere of nothingness no sphere of neither perception or non-perception those are the four um immaterial
• quite beyond any sense of materiality or perception of this or that or anything quite beyond
• this going beyond that going beyond any uh any sense perception any form anything any
• of being realms of experience realms of perception dimensions and transcending the eighth the next dimension if you
• beyond all sense experience all all perception etc um this is too much i think i wonder if
• their limited training they've had in in perception so there's a kind of flat land of
• flat land view and narrowness of perception of experiences of um ideation even and again uh is is in a