All the mighty world of eye and ear, both what they half-create, and what perceive.-William Wordsworth
Perception is not personal it does not belong to an individual as it may seem. The one who is perceiving is aware presence. Also, as it may seem, awareness is not standing apart at a distance and viewing the perception, but it is the intrinsic nature or substance of perception. Perception is the limited and temporary activity or experience that arises within awareness. However, awareness itself is not limited, unaltered by the arousal of perception. All there is in this whole activity is only awareness.
When a red apple placed
in front of a mirror, the reflection of the apple gives a red coloration to the
mirror, which is transient. The red coloration is not an essential feature to
the nature of the mirror. When the apple is removed the red color appearing on
the mirror, disappears; it is just a reflection. Similarly, when perception
goes, the awareness remains as luminous transparent empty back ground and then
takes the shape of next perception.
Superficially, due to conditioning, from point of view of a separated
self, perception seems limited but when viewed from inside, it is unlimited.
Though, awareness
assumes a temporary name and form because it is intimately associated with the
limited activity of perception; yet it is free of it.
Perception is a faculty of awareness, it is a form of knowledge, an activity of experiencing or awareness of sensing and perceiving. Perceptions are temporary form of awareness which are labeled by thought as names, colors and shapes, textures, sound, taste, speech.
There are things known
and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
– Aldous Huxley
We are conditioned to believe that hearing takes place inside the body through sense organs. But when observed by experience, there is no “a body”- there are just a clump of sensations and hearing occurs in the open field awareness or I Am, which is me. Hearing is a temporary modulation of awareness. It is made of awareness. Awareness takes shape of hearing. It is also noted there is not clear demarcation between hearing end and awareness or experience of hearing begins. It is all one experience occurring in awareness.
Likewise, all perceptions take place in me or I Am and the nature of experience of all perceptions are the –seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, tactile. It is all arising in awareness made of awareness.
All there is to
perception is experiencing of it, consciousness or awareness of it. The
knowledge of body and world are only sensations and perceptions. The body and
world have never ever been experienced. The only substance in perceptions is
awareness or pure consciousness.
The finite mind and conditioning impose limitation through which perceptions are filtered and the world is perceived. Therefore, the world appears consistent with those limitations. Seeing through colored glasses, the world appears colored and finite. The way reality appears depends upon the structure and faculties of the mind that perceives it. An insect mind and a human mind would perceive the same reality differently.
May my experiences benefit all beings accomplish their goals on the path of realization!! 🙏
Thank you!!
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