Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.
The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.
There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself.
Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.
The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.
If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.
Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.
Perception is made up of bands.
An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.
We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren't there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.
Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.
When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.
Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.
Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.
We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.
When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.
The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.
This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.
The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.
Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.
