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Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 23 mentions

• in in the image as well and then in the perception that tended to come out that image that in that the perception of not
• perception that tended to come out that image that in that the perception of not being understood as fully as i would
• um experiences of life and relationship as imaginal perceptions when they naturally became images for the soul
• kind to an image to an imaginal figure to a soulmaking perception that it has somehow a hold on us that it somehow
• all that of all those elements of the of the imaginal perception so that with these kinds of sensors the trees and
• cloud or space around and imbuing the perception that's one of well just more space it's not so tight it's not so
• um there's something in imaginal perception that carries with it a kind of
• concerned not beyond the perception the sensing but in and through eros always will create and
• that ignite the whole imaginal constellation whole imaginal perception then there's more ease because we
• can shrink to craving and then that shrinks the perception and the intention shrinks and all all of these factors so
• intention and shrinking of um perception all kinds of things having or opening up to that reminding
• um the excitement of imaginal perception or heroes that i'm after or the sense of
• like the truth of participation and perception the truth of the participatory nature of
• of the participatory nature of perception so that rather than a kind of um
• reality of a more participatory nature of reality if you like of perception foreign
• foreign so regarding the perceptions and the senses of things that arise in and
• rough uh spectrum of ontologies regarding the perceptions that arise through the erotic imaginal
• um in imaginal perception in sensing the soul in through eros i discover the real
• so therefore an imaginal project in imaginal perception i am just creating freely
• mind and divinity the mind in the will and in its perception and perceiving and ways of looking and its awareness all of
• epistemological basis for sensing the soul those kind of perceptions you could also perhaps ponder and think
• what's happening with eros in terms of its effect on perception and what kind of uh conception of reality is happening
• of uh conception of reality is happening with erotic imaginal perception what do each of those possibilities

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

Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 4) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 23 mentions

• applies um to any imaginal perception uh we're talking about the imaginal dimension so
• seen sensed imaginingly the imaginal perception of someone in our life or someone that we know from history or
• um over concretized at one dimensionality of of perception reification then we actually don't see
• perceive certain things there's the imaginal perception they become very alive very vital very meaningful very
• tangible very real for us these imaginal perceptions so in a way what's happening here is
• in our culture this already would be called an imaginal perception of the nature to share this grief with the cold
• you hear how we consider that in our culture an imaginal perception uh i stopped to literally hug one so she
• diminished by any offering to me again the imaginal perception of the tree the beauty of that the the resource of that
• with the imaginal in the imaginal is love and and with imaginal perceptions there is love
• there is love in in the imaginal in with images with imaginal perceptions can we notice it we love
• where the cosmoporosis comes in in terms of the imaginal perception of the world but all these three objects self and
• insubstantiality in substantiality of the perception of materiality so there's a little bit of fading but actually the
• on the um the poetry of perception retreat um you can
• here but one that needs to be translated to a perception conceptions on their own disembodied
• that so to speak is a seed um in the perception in and becomes a way of looking conception needs to be
• way of looking conception needs to be translated to perception actually perceive this as already happening this
• imagine that level of imaginal perception opens up and the problem goes out of the whole thing the problem of
• other is not in these in this imaginal perception this this dimension the imagine the other is not what the
• imagine the other is not what the um conventional perception of of the other uh what it seems to conventional
• other uh what it seems to conventional perception but but careful with this because it's
• there's a difference there's a different um perception it's a different way of looking than just saying it's just
• expands increases deepens gets richer and the sense the perception of self and other are retained the the
• to create discover uh new perspectives new perceptions new experiences

Chandrakirti's Chariot and the Unfindable Self - (Meditation on Emptiness) 22 mentions

• the vadana meaning the feeling tone of experience perceptions mental formations meaning intentions
• sense of the thing the sense of the self the perception of the self begins to fade and get replaced with a sense of
• that me this sense of experiencing pleasant unpleasant is my perceptions may i have a moment of perceiving the
• unpleasant am i angry at their perception perceptions this perception of that perception i'm angry at
• perception perceptions this perception of that perception i'm angry at um their their consciousnesses their
• we could never perceive it because it would be beyond perception one of the aggregates we can only as
• sometimes this self i possess my present perceptions i perceive a lamp i perceive a carpet i perceive a sound i perceive
• now either if the self possesses the perceptions it either means the self doesn't perceive because again they're
• with it or we can say the self is maybe the self perceives the perception and then we're getting to tricky territory
• then we're getting to tricky territory because then there's two perceptions and say well okay maybe the self
• um the same as the second perception that's what the self is it's the second perception that
• as the second perception that's what the self is it's the second perception that perceives the others but then every time
• self that's actually many and not one or you say okay that second perception that perceives the initial perception is
• or you say okay that second perception that perceives the initial perception is different it's different or uh
• different it's different or uh is different than the second perception then again you get into this thing of
• are the perceiver the perceiving and the perception the same or different
• the perceiver i am perceiving the process of perceiving and the perception what i'm put that actually this is a
• thing being perceived or a process of perception you could find a process of perception without a perceiver and a
• perception you could find a process of perception without a perceiver and a thing perceived or you could find a
• without a perceiver and process of perception no
• what we see perceiver perceiving and perception they are unfindable unfindable there's nothing
• inseparable from the object of experience from the perception that i'm perceiving in that moment

The Movement of Devotion (Part 1) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 22 mentions

• it has a downside in that it reinforces those certain perceptions if i emphasize it too much if i have a way of thinking
• about practice and the part that emphasizes those kind of perceptions too much it will tend to reify those
• much it will tend to reify those perceptions as a reality this is the basic reality and also just tend to for
• um to the subtlety sometimes of perceptions all right we'll be careful of the aim
• openness of view an openness of mind an openness of perception is my on my range of ways of looking open and also
• and see what effect that has on my perception of the world see if there's a cosmopolis is spilling
• see if there's a cosmopolis is spilling over from the image or the perception of the energy body or or often similarly
• cosmopoetic section uh sensation perception so eyes open eyes closed you know
• trying to encourage a cosmopoietic perception it's not happening do i understand why it's not happening i mean
• sensing taking it as real taking this perception is real or if i'm grasping at it that so
• can incline the uh psyche and and the perception the way of looking and and there's the possibility of finding
• um uh a decrease in in the fabrication of perception in general and that can come out of samadhi
• when there's less cleaning there will be less fabrication of perception in in that moment
• there is the unfabricating of um vader sensation and perception but but it also happens in imaginal
• state or a stance of the heart and the fourth is is imaginal perception itself and and tuning to imaginal
• itself and and tuning to imaginal perceptions which i've talked about on other talks other retreats these four
• attitude of heart and the imaginal perception and tuning if that's all there and then a lot is
• um we see a know and sense with their vision with their perception with their sensibility uh and hear things as they
• stance the open humble receptive uh heart and the um imaginal perception and tuning and and in all that is implicit
• um transubstantiation that happens um through our perception the world the cosmos feels is sent to be to be
• what we're saying we're putting that in the in the realm of perception but there is a holy communion with that imaginal
• um the cosmos made divine in the perception uh just as in as in something like the

The Freedom of No-thing-ness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 22 mentions

• what that does is it primes the perception okay this is this is what i want to get
• want to get it primes the perception so actually just then it's like when there's a lot
• believing in one poll is that the perception gets primed so if i come to a retreat and i say samadhi calmness
• up saying calmness that very setting up of that pole primes the perception it sets up the perception to notice what
• of that pole primes the perception it sets up the perception to notice what non-commness that's what will stand out
• non-commness that's what will stand out to the perception you understand you're setting yourself up to notice more
• dependent and rely on each other perception of the whole and the perception of the parts rely on each
• perception of the whole and the perception of the parts rely on each other they're mutually dependent
• candles body perceptions mental formations and consciousness consciousness all of them
• fading it depends it depends um perception we've talked about that already as well and the notion of fading
• and again we say it's imputed on the basis of the sensations and perceptions and those on their parts and those on
• it's inseparable from my reaction to it it's a body evading the perceptions mental formations we'll talk a bit more
• does not see feelings vadanna does not see perceptions does not see mental formations or and intentions does not
• question answer i can't remember about perception and feeling perception of vaden and not being actually separable
• of unpleasantness pleasantness or a neutrality and leave the perception as it is well you can't take out the
• it is well you can't take out the perception of what it is and leave its unpleasantness pleasantness and
• where does for instance consciousness knowing begin and the perception end of those two things or two ends of a stick
• can i separate walking from the intentions to walk or the perceptions of walking
• let me show experience the actual the perception of walking well first the concept that begins to
• walking begins to it just it dissolves as a perception it can't a dissolve as perception
• as a perception it can't a dissolve as perception in
• the duration the mind gives it in its perception i'm going to talk about time next week

From Inertia, Towards the Solutio (A Fragment) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of... 22 mentions

• now compare that view that sense that perception and interpretation if you like implicit interpretation conceptual
• uh influence each other shape fabricate uh inform each other the perceptions of both
• cosmopoasis to to the world to the cosmos to a perception and a divinising a making divine of the cosmos
• inhabit and the nature of that world and the perception of that world um
• is the whole question of matter and then again the nature the perception the conception of matter
• views the conceptions the sense the perception of all that is is tied together
• or world or body what is the conception and and the perception so again with matter you know might
• very accessible and prolonged in time perception is that all is one and a kind of different flavors of one all is one
• there's a whole way that the the the perception and conception of um matter and materiality
• you mean when you use that word do you mean the experience the perception and wrapped up in that the conception of
• but if you're talking about the experience or the perception or the conception of something like solidity
• experience a phenomenality to solidity it's a perception it's a phenomenon which means appearance perception
• it's a perception it's a phenomenon which means appearance perception um or are you just assuming there's a
• level and with huge effect conceptions perceptions fantasies and images of matter
• grounded if you like and based on conceptions perceptions fantasies of matter
• anything it's all just matter and that's the exclusive perception and deemed real marian chapman needs an opening up of
• spiritual reenchantment where that perception of matter opens up and it includes other views and they're
• and that implies the the multiplicity or the the availability to perception of if you like more than one dimension
• um what conceptions are wrapped up in that perception of divinity for you at that time
• there's this this call to the multiplicity of perception the the multiplicity the possibility of
• all abstract because so much of our assumptions so much of our perception our sense of existence and the world so
• but what is the relationship with all that what is the perception the conception

The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 22 mentions

• begin to melt they begin to blur the very perception of objects the very perception of the world is also depend
• very perception of objects the very perception of the world is also depend on craving to a certain extent
• construction of my experience or my perception appearance and and and what appears to me and this practice can go
• all of those um perceptions are still fabricated and we can go deeper than that
• process of events consciousness and perception and vadana and all that and i believe that level of
• like the atomistic reductionism perception but we believe that i can do something called just being and that
• appearances do not appear there is no perception if i really just let go of everything
• no craving how do they perceive anything if you perception is part of the fourth link of dependent arising
• and if there's no avija and there's no craving then actually perception does not arise you can experience that in
• not reborn again you know the world of perception is not reborn for them there's total unbinding of the world of
• there's total unbinding of the world of perception foreign
• um in attending to something whatever it is a sensation a perception when in the very attending to that object they they
• clinging is part of percept of of perception clinging is necessary for perception very subtle levels of
• perception clinging is necessary for perception very subtle levels of clinging are necessary for perception
• perception very subtle levels of clinging are necessary for perception on top of that
• he said don't cling to non-clinging it's empty and it's wrapped up in perception don't cling to the idea of non-clinging
• because i know it's empty because i know it's part of perception part of the magic of appearances
• that means if it's craving his part of perception doesn't mean that it means seen and
• the realm of nothingness and the realm is neither perception or non-perception seventh and the eighth
• and the realm is neither perception or non-perception seventh and the eighth john is this deep state of unfabricating
• we can shape perception we can
• involved in the fabrication of perception it's involved in experiencing anything

Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 1) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 22 mentions

• now compare that view that sense that perception and interpretation if you like implicit interpretation conceptual
• uh influence each other shape fabricate uh inform each other the perceptions of both
• cosmopoasis to to the world to the cosmos to a perception and a divinising a making divine of the cosmos
• inhabit and the nature of that world and the perception of that world um
• is the whole question of matter and then again the nature the perception the conception of matter
• views the conceptions the sense the perception of all that is is tied together
• or world or body what is the conception and and the perception so again with matter you know might
• very accessible and prolonged in time perception is that all is one and a kind of different flavors of one all is one
• there's a whole way that the the the perception and conception of um matter and materiality
• you mean when you use that word do you mean the experience the perception and wrapped up in that the conception of
• but if you're talking about the experience or the perception or the conception of something like solidity
• experience a phenomenality to solidity it's a perception it's a phenomenon which means appearance perception
• it's a perception it's a phenomenon which means appearance perception um or are you just assuming there's a
• level and with huge effect conceptions perceptions fantasies and images of matter
• grounded if you like and based on conceptions perceptions fantasies of matter
• anything it's all just matter and that's the exclusive perception and deemed real marian chapman needs an opening up of
• spiritual reenchantment where that perception of matter opens up and it includes other views and they're
• and that implies the the multiplicity or the the availability to perception of if you like more than one dimension
• um what conceptions are wrapped up in that perception of divinity for you at that time
• there's this this call to the multiplicity of perception the the multiplicity the possibility of
• all abstract because so much of our assumptions so much of our perception our sense of existence and the world so
• but what is the relationship with all that what is the perception the conception

Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 2) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 22 mentions

• to science scientism now compare that view that sense that perception and interpretation if you like implicit
• uh influence each other shape fabricate uh inform each other the perceptions of both
• cosmopoases to to the world to the cosmos to a perception and a divinising a making divine of the cosmos
• inhabit and the nature of that world and the perception of that world um
• is the whole question of matter and then again the nature the perception the conception of matter
• views the conceptions the sense the perception of all that is is tied together
• or world or body what is the conception and and the perception so again with matter you know my my
• quite very accessible and prolonged in time perception is that all is one and again of different flavors of one all is
• the way that we think it is and there's a whole way that the the the perception and conception of
• you mean when you use that word do you mean the experience the perception and wrapped up in that the conception of
• but if you're talking about the experience or the perception or the conception of something like solidity
• experience a phenomenality to solidity it's a perception it's a phenomenon which means appearance perception
• it's a perception it's a phenomenon which means appearance perception um or are you just assuming there's a
• level and with huge effect conceptions perceptions fantasies and images of matter
• grounded if you like and based on conceptions perceptions fantasies of matter
• anything it's all just matter and that's the exclusive perception and deemed real marian chapman needs an opening up of
• spiritual reenchantment where that perception of matter opens up and it includes other views and they're
• and that implies the the multiplicity or the the availability to perception of if you like more than one dimension
• um what conceptions are wrapped up in that perception of divinity for you at that time
• there's this this call to the multiplicity of perception the the multiplicity the possibility of
• all abstract because so much of our assumptions so much of our perception our sense of existence and the world so
• but what is the relationship with all that what is the perception the conception