What Is Perception Made Up Of?
What we call perception is just labeling and thoughts superimposed on Awareness, which remains unchanged whether the manifest world arises or dissolves.
Inherently in our percepHon, there is past, there is a future, there is now?
No.
So this is just… the mental version of this. Now you are coming to God’s version which is not so three dimensional or four-dimensional.
So if I am this, in the end, it is a concept. And maybe say the reality is not linear.
Yeah.
Then that will be a bunch of conflicts every now and then.
Like?
It should not comply to my concept isn’t it?
So it is definitely not advisable to now build a new concept around non-linearity. Because then they will have conflict. It is just like to come to the innocence of a child again. Which is like they have no concept of linearity or non-linearity. Because otherwise, you try to fit this into some non-linear idea. Then that again trying to construct.
So in deep sleep there is only Awareness.
Ahh? And in waking state?
Waking state [Sangha Ananta Smiles] so many things coming.
There is more than Awareness? [Sangha Chuckles]
So we should always be in deep sleep.
In the coming of anything… in the arising of anything, does anything arise which is not in Awareness or not Awareness?
Awareness is watching everything arising.
That which is watching is not Awareness?
That percepHon in not Awareness.
PercepHon is not Awareness?
No.
Then, what is it? What is percepHon made up of?
Labeling, thoughts, all these things.
What is… so the manifest arises from…?
The senses and thoughts, interpretaHons.
And goes into, when it dissolves?
That goes into Awareness.
But when it comes out it doesn’t come out from Awareness? [Laughs] [Inaudible] You don’t have to worry too much about it that. But when you look at the waking state arising, you will that it is not separate from that which never lee. It is just like (what is a good metaphor)... It is just like a sort of light is switched on and it shines on an aspect of myself which is more qualitaHve. But, it is not separate from that which is Aware of It.
Key Teachings
- Perception itself is made up of labeling, thoughts, and interpretations—it is not Awareness
- The manifest world (waking state) arises from senses and thoughts, and dissolves back into Awareness, yet it is not separate from that which never changes
- Building any concept—even non-linearity—creates conflict; one must return to childlike innocence without concepts
From: When You Are Open & Empty, You Are Not Confused about Who You Are - 19th November 2019