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"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

The Movement of Devotion (live and shortened version) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of... 24 mentions

• um you know units of perception or consciousness or factors of mind are
• and the notion of of the exploration of the fabrication of perception those two notions uh interrelated notions putting
• um dealing with any concept that we have any perception that we have and the thing that we think we arrive at is not
• effects on freedom their effects on the heart on the perception on the sense of beauty on sense of meaning on soul
• so so this this whole idea of ways of looking the fabrication of perception it forms both the start of the starting uh
• so that in that as i said the the whole teaching of fabrication of perception is grossly limited
• go of fabrication and move if you like unfabricate perception more and more so underneath all all this
• and the scope for unfabricating perception for moving up and down on this spectrum of fabricating and
• non-recognition that what is presented in perception or to perception or as perception
• is presented in perception or to perception or as perception um doesn't so much present itself
• um doesn't so much present itself independently perception is not a a kind of
• that what arises as perception what is presented if you like or feels as if
• dharma which exactly is understanding that how perception is fabricated as i said dependent on the way of looking
• um tend to obscure the dependent arising um or the arising of perceptions of appearances experiences dependent on the
• possibility this understanding fabrication of perception the possibility different ways of looking is
• try and convert the teachings of emptiness and fabrication of perception and all that into
• for um uh habitual uh perceptions and conceptions of what reality is
• questioning deeply notions and perceptions of reality and habitual assumptions is is basically upsetting
• ingrained assumptions such assumptions and perceptions and conceptions that everyone seems to agree on
• assumed tacitly born um assumptions that we have perceptions conceptions the questioning of them is
• to have objective independent understanding and perception of anything is also can be approached by emptiness
• emptiness and dependent arising um on on the one hand all perception all experience uh is empty there's no
• its relationship to uh to emptiness and understanding of reality and perception and what that had to do with freedom etc
• if you like enchanted together the self the world the senses the perception the ideation all of it

Love and the Emptiness of Things - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 24 mentions

• body sensations what happens to our perceptions of things
• now let's explore this a little bit has to do with the nature of perception and if we just step back and look at how
• and if we just step back and look at how perception works in our life we have all of us
• mature psychologically has to admit that anger colors the perception at times we even have a phrase in english one is
• the very words are implying this coloring of perception when looking at the world at the situation in that
• moment through the lenses of anger and the perception is correspondingly changed
• around how does the perception change when there's a lot of anger around how does
• there's a lot of anger around how does the perception change when we are angry with another and
• can do things soften the minds often the eyes then softened and the perception softens because perception is dependent
• eyes then softened and the perception softens because perception is dependent on the state of the mind
• the mind moving on this continuum the perceptions change which one reveals the real object
• but even that is is actually empty it's still a perception that's come into being through the way we are looking
• and that's coloring everything and in the view the perception changes we can play with this the beauty of
• what happens the view changes and the perception changes the perception we have of things is
• and the perception changes the perception we have of things is dependent on on the view of how we're
• obvious we can see how fear colors our perception you know you're afraid walking
• and it's not it's just the shadows colored colored with the perception from the fear
• about understanding the very nature of all perception itself so all perception even the perception of a space out of
• all perception itself so all perception even the perception of a space out of which all things arise and pass
• which all things arise and pass all perception and somehow seeing beyond seeing to the beyond of all perceptions
• all perception and somehow seeing beyond seeing to the beyond of all perceptions any perception whatsoever of space of
• seeing to the beyond of all perceptions any perception whatsoever of space of consciousness of time of a present
• seen and understood at the deepest level the nature of perception and the buddha said to understand fully the nature of
• said to understand fully the nature of perception is to be fully awakened put that way again it doesn't sound very

"I Sing The Body Electric": On Orientations in Practice - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry... 24 mentions

• um you know units of perception or consciousness or factors of mind are
• and the notion of of the exploration of the fabrication of perception those two notions uh interrelated notions putting
• um dealing with any concept that we have any perception that we have and the thing that we think we arrive at is not
• effects on freedom their effects on the heart on the perception on the sense of beauty on sense of meaning on soul
• so so this this whole idea of ways of looking the fabrication of perception it forms both the start of the starting uh
• so that in that as i said the the whole teaching of fabrication of perception is grossly limited
• go of fabrication and move if you like unfabricate perception more and more so underneath or or all
• and the scope for unfabricating perception from moving up and down on this spectrum of fabricating and
• non-recognition that what um is presented in perception or to perception or as perception
• um is presented in perception or to perception or as perception um doesn't so much present itself
• um doesn't so much present itself independently perception is not a uh a kind of
• that what arises as perception what is presented if you like or feels as if
• dharma which exactly is understanding that how perception is fabricated i said dependent on the way of looking
• um tend to obscure the dependent arising um or the arising of perceptions of appearances experiences dependent on the
• possibility this understanding fabrication of perception the possibility different ways of looking is
• try and convert the teachings of emptiness and fabrication of perception and all that into
• a habitual perceptions and conceptions of what reality is
• questioning deeply notions and perceptions of reality and habitual assumptions is is basically upsetting is
• ingrained assumptions such assumptions and perceptions and conceptions that everyone seems to agree on
• tacitly born um assumptions that we have perceptions conceptions the questioning of them is
• to have objective independent understanding and perception of anything is also can be approached by emptiness
• emptiness and dependent arising um on on the one hand all perception all experience uh is empty there's no
• its relationship to uh to emptiness and understanding of reality and perception and what that had to do with freedom etc
• if you like enchanted together the self the world the senses the perception the ideation all of it

The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 2) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 24 mentions

• the fabrication of the world and the fabrication of perception so subject and object consciousness and
• that poetic sensibility the opening up of perception in sensing the soul another possibility
• integrate things that don't seem integratable at our level of perception level of understanding level of
• understanding what can be in empirically observed what's open to perception or um
• kind of philosophy that that all knowledge must be based on perception you it um
• local different conceptions within the soulmaking paradigm if perceptions that we have
• they inspire us they open avenues of sense and sensibility and perception and concept in other words ideas spawn other
• of ideas and what their relationship is to ordinary perception to our usual notions of reality to what
• it they're all part of the same thing and in the perception of the world the temporal world the
• of the world the temporal world the perception is of divinity so this buddha nature perceives divinity
• the unfabricated as well as towards the perception of forms this world the world of matter
• as the eros with regard to our perceptions is allowed to infuse and inseminate and expand the perception
• perceptions is allowed to infuse and inseminate and expand the perception expand the ideation the era psychologist
• opens that supports the possibility of that kind of perception of our process being divine that way and
• participating that way and that idea and that perception together then may fertilize the whole soulmaking dynamic
• something happens in our process in our perception on meditation and it suggests these ideas
• in our motivations in our choices our perceptions our all of that
• the ideation that that in fact that perception of uh causality with regard to beauty
• um or the perception and idea that we project images
• absolute because our conception and perception doesn't tend doesn't for the most part work at that level we cannot
• is incomplete it it is that way there's this gap between different perceptions conceptions and conceptual frameworks
• think uh ideas and perceptions that we can trust so generally epistemology you think
• um it may be again that the whole imaginal perception what comes to us through the imaginal is more like art
• exists at levels or dimensions that's beyond our usual conception perception uh the whole emptiness ways of looking

The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The Self cannot be found anywhere) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 24 mentions

• the condos their body feelings perceptions mental formations and consciousness is investigating that
• unpleasant pleasant neutral um perceptions uh mental formations can mean thoughts
• witness many mind states or many many feelings many perceptions etc
• not the chariot so if we get into things like perception similarly they come they go how can that
• because i still feel like me when i don't have a certain perception the same with thoughts and moods and intentions
• am i angry at their vadana and they're angry at their perceptions am i angry at there knowing their
• separate from the act separate from consciousness and perception and feeling and form it would actually be a complete
• properties of consciousness or perception or feeling or anything like we
• the aggregate is actually part of the aggregates because perception and then we would have to perceive this
• we would have to perceive this and then so that perception is then part of our is part of the aggregates right
• so we always have perception involves perceiving of something okay yeah so you
• perceiving of something okay yeah so you can't have perception and an object
• and an object uh perception by definition if you if you inquire what does it mean to
• retreat goes on it's a it's still a fabricated perception so as the as retreat goes on i'm going talking a lot
• about uh how are perceptions whether they're everyday or deep meditative perceptions
• how are perceptions whether they're everyday or deep meditative perceptions are actually fabricated they're
• um but actually it's still a fabricator perception it takes a lot to see that to me that's a much deeper reason for
• clear how this was built it was a fabricated perception of oneness we have a fabricated perception of separateness
• fabricated perception of oneness we have a fabricated perception of separateness we have a fabricated perception of
• a fabricated perception of separateness we have a fabricated perception of whatever but this i'm going to be
• emptiness means the fabrication of perception okay so
• um so when when we perceive uh perception as an experience but it involves the world it involves the uh
• um that we have uh a perceiver uh is it possible to have perception without perceiving or a perceiver in
• experiences and and chairs and cushions but also vadana and perceptions and consciousness so they too are not just

Eros and the Brahmaviharas - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 24 mentions

• so desire attraction delight also with eros the perception of beauty is an integral feature
• an inevitable feature of eros the perception of beauty and also i would say of meaningfulness
• support give rise to an an increase in in our perception of the beauty of the other
• different thing so meta may support an increase in the perception of beauty and delight but uh these the perception of
• increase in the perception of beauty and delight but uh these the perception of beauty and the experience of delight are
• essential they're not necessary to matter the perception of beauty of the other and the delight in the other
• fabricating that other less family in the perception of the other less again whether itself
• towards a decrease of the fabrication of the perception of the other of of the certainly the object to whom one is
• all things um they simplify the perception of the other as part of that movement and also
• movement of less fabrication and the perceptions of oneness that come out of that self and other are
• essence of love or whatever the perception is the perceptions of oneness as we've said several times on this
• retreat are also if you like the various perceptions of one zero so if you like um station points on the spectrum of
• um station points on the spectrum of lessening fabrication of the perception of the other and self that happens
• decrease the fabrication and the perception of other and also self part of that is the simplification or the
• of that is the simplification or the perception of other himself and partly also and also world and partly
• also and also world and partly um the perceptions of oneness the sense of oneness
• the um perceptions the openings the experiences of sacredness and divinity
• tuning into that kind of wavelength if you like of perception and because it's not doesn't feel at
• it's partly it's just um the perception of what doesn't or in certain direction the perception of just
• um the perception of what doesn't or in certain direction the perception of just when does somebody become mystical
• agreed to be the normal agreed on perception of what what something is um i mean obviously there's lots of
• because of the aero psychologic the opening up a dimensions of perception of dimensions perception the sense of
• opening up a dimensions of perception of dimensions perception the sense of beyond mystery
• in fabrication this lessening of fabrication of perception that they um that they

Living in the Truth - (November Solitary) 24 mentions

• way i am in work in relationship my personal tendencies of of perception the way i tend to see a certain situation or
• do i tend to see myself as a victim this is a pattern of perception do i tend to see myself as a victim
• sometimes there are what we could call changes of perception changes of perception something happens
• changes of perception changes of perception something happens something happens in the being and
• changed quite dramatically in the perception i was years ago years ago i was reading
• what's going on these kind of changes of perception that's just one in a particular
• all this joy this eruption this fountain of joy perception can shift sometimes and in a way that one one feels in those
• experience for something to shift sometimes in the perception of life and the universe and
• seek to cultivate that change in perception as much as one can because something
• repetition this extension of a change of perception something can begin to shift in terms of
• but it takes the repetition of this shift in perception as one one of the approaches is not the only difference
• um shifts of perception that then get a kind of um
• and it has to do with the nature of perception to see consciousness as something very
• it will seem that way when the perception is a certain way of rapid arising disappearing
• and consciousness will seem another way when the perception is very wide consciousness is tied in with perception
• when the perception is very wide consciousness is tied in with perception these are both perceptions
• consciousness is tied in with perception these are both perceptions it can move it can move what we perceive
• something here we need to question very deeply our assumptions about perception about perception
• deeply our assumptions about perception about perception even really obvious stuff like that
• but the analytical it's like we want to understand perception the buddha said to understand the truth one
• buddha said to understand the truth one needs to understand perception and begin to see that the appearance of
• begin to not support that building process not support perceptions with the mind
• mind the perceptions the world of perception and the mind
• the perceptions the world of perception and the mind itself they begin to fade away they

The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening... 24 mentions

• writing around that and um i wonder how much that perception there was a result again of his personal
• again what the play there was of imaginal theophanic perception tied into a beautiful mystical multi-dimensional
• um it also supports a whole conception view of the image or of any perception of reality is multi-leveled not singular
• making and open up the divinising the perception of dimensionality and divinity so it's a vehicle in that sense
• implicated in and involved in and affects the perception of cosmos world and divinity so there's a kind of
• was was sort of existed i'm already um as as a perception so it wasn't that um
• there's a kind of magic going on there but it's in the perception in the sense of the world and of the human beings
• transubstantiate something transforms the perception of something opens up a vision is is discovered their
• of looking by through the imaginal perception through the attitude through the
• in our in our life in our meditation practice open up perceptions and also our action and our embodiment
• we are called on and we are necessary in and through our perception imaginal perception or practice our
• in and through our perception imaginal perception or practice our meditative perception our ways of
• imaginal perception or practice our meditative perception our ways of looking in and through our perception
• meditative perception our ways of looking in and through our perception and in and through our action
• not so much that as as an alchemy of perception an alchemy of the perception of the cosmos and of the human being
• an alchemical process that involves our whole perception of ourselves of each other and of the whole
• cosmos so in and through perception and in and through action then that can include
• an eros whether it's in in the meditation in the imaginal perception in in the way where relating to the senses
• the healing of the world in the perception in the perception
• perception in the perception so that
• and our our perception our thoughts our vision our ideation our speech and action our
• the the logos and and the imaginal perception and the whole ways of looking then
• potentially infinitely revealing through our perception and through our embodiment including
• unfabricated beyond the senses beyond perception beyond experience beyond space beyond time

Logoi and Leanings - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 23 mentions

• right now with the loveliness and delight of whatever perception is there the loveliness and delight that are part
• the cosmopoasis here what's the perception of things and included is that in that is the
• and included is that in that is the perception of time so again one might um balance things out by just paying
• um balance things out by just paying attention to what kind of perception of time is happening right now and maybe
• time is happening right now and maybe that the perception of time uh time begins to get sensed with soul and again
• and timelessness or the kind of perception with time and that allows the eros and and the soulmaking to flow in
• meet deeper and and widen the um the soulmaking perceptions etc
• reality of say body and matter um did something to perception uh which became less substantial in
• loosened and liquefied the whole of perception um and
• intention etc and so there was a real malleability with regard to perception so that was one one in these three words
• soul participates in that sensing result in that organ of uh soulful perception that instrument for soulful perception
• in that organ of uh soulful perception that instrument for soulful perception and two-way my soul participates in god
• or in that last sub idea um the perception and sensing the soul there is is kind of similar to emptiness
• there is is kind of similar to emptiness practice perception um of self and uh other
• that as a kind of um staging post or important perception or way of looking at certain levels of self and other
• rise to um the perception the sensing result so you can if you go back to the
• um like the way of looking that sees just a perception and looks at things decides to look at everything's just a
• decides to look at everything's just a perception it's just a perception actually there needs to be a
• consciousness of what is the subtext for what i mean by just a perception but because it could mean something like
• the emptiness way of looking just a perception or it could be it's just a perception in other words it's
• perception or it could be it's just a perception in other words it's fabricated by the way of looking
• ideation in practice and incorporating concept into perception and into ways of looking again needs to be very light and
• allowed to shape and influence and determine and fabricate the perception of the sensing