The world around us, in our direct ‘knowing’ is just a sense
perception. Meaning, its content is made of knowing material or the material of
sensations, whose material is non matter at the most, or material of awareness.
Generally speaking, sensing of pain is pain. No
objective pain apart or separate or outside the sensing of it could be
perceived. Perceptions are only perceived and the contents of perception are
then interpreted as separate concepts which then has an equivalent hallucinated
experience or a conditioned experience or a imagined to be 'objects'. These concepts, or so called 'objects', actually
have no direct relation to the sensations. For example, we make a concept of
Budweiser Beer as very good over a period of time, even though the same ‘we’
knew this taste to be more like that of urine, when there was no concept of
Beer. So we experience concepts and these experiences ( mostly learnt ) are defined into memory as Good or Bad, or other
attributes, somehow giving them an aliveness as objects, being no more than a mental projection of them being so.
When we just take a look at the scene around us to ‘know’
what we know in our visual see-ing, we are actually, pushing our mind to tell
us what is seen, We apparently, experience each object of seeing as separate and stand
alone items in the general sensation of visual knowing. So the mind, interprets
seeing as a collections of objects like buildings, rivers, trees, roads etc. It’s
always and always, interpretation of mind, conceptualising what is seen, as
separate stand alone objects in the seeing, that seems to give the reality to
what is seen, there by making a notion of a subjective see-er. Such,
conceptualisation, helps record into memory, what is seen, as a format of ‘story
telling’ (conceptualising) knit around a self centred notion of ‘me’. So
ultimately and initially too, we ‘experience
‘concepts’ as interpreted by mind, about our perceptions, rather than
experience perceptions, un-interpreted. In absence of conceptualisation, all
seeing and hearing etc., is a shock, as if someone from behind made a shout and
you jumped. We can’t experience a
non-conceptual world, other than as a series as shocks or breathtaking
experiences, because every sensational
shock could be too much for the body handle.
It would be like walking on the edge of life. Could be better than what it is,
like living in a permanent ‘adventure’ mode.
The split mind is conditioned to make meanings or concepts
to parts of perception, which is the basis of objectification of ‘forms’ or
more correctly, subjectification of forms, to convert ‘forms’ or shapes into objects or ‘things’ in our understanding
of them as ‘other’. Thing-ness to forms
is plain and simple conceptualisation or imagination of reality to forms,
separated in space, mentally. It is purely a mind function rather than an
existential reality which apparently seems to be something that is existing ‘realness’ ‘at’ the object. Its more a projection of
ourselves as mind, onto the sensed ‘form’ for purpose of objectification or
giving forms, a stamp of reality, whatever reality could mean. Eventually, such
objectification, being the functioning of mind, is what leads to perception to
be felt as ‘separation’ of subject that
perceives an object, and independent of itself. It generates the reality in
feel of ‘me’ and the ‘other’ as if independent entities in space time. Hence
separation, in absence of conceptualisation, is something that could not be a possibility,
as perception of full wholeness rather than in bits and pieces. So separation is
a ‘mental’ activity, which is not a ‘reality’
in the true sense of our sensory perception.
The ‘reality’ of objects is nothing more than making ‘objects’
of forms, using mental hallucination, in the absence of which, all forms would
seem as extensions or ‘parts’ of a single whole form, of our sensory perception
of this creation. This would then just be the knowing of ‘ wholeness’ as
depicted in pre-conceptualised perception.
All of this is theory about non-conceptual and conceptual perception,
and we could only perceive from a place where our perception apparently
functions. However such non-conceptual or pre-conceptual perception is an activity that is already
happening to us, for very short intervals, until conceptualisation takes place, as a further functioning of the mind,
involving its conditioning as the basis of such conceptualisation activity.
In its nascent form, perception is 2D for a newborn, that
can’t gauge depths, 3D for slightly grown that can’t gauge time and 4D for most
of us, that can gauge time as content of perception, as if time existed, in its
own right and not as a measure of the object. In fact space ( volume) and time are just
inherent properties for perception belonging to the object as their property,
helping in their mental grasping as
separate contents to ‘knowing. Objects keep changing and their measure as
property keeps changing so that a changed object is per say not the same
object, but in our hallucination, there is a tendency to keep the same object
in continuity, even with the change of all its property. This gives a base of reality
to ‘objects’ that keep changing. So I am the same even though I am changing and
not the same. Paradox. We at times accept changes to forms as new objectification,
like tadpole is not a frog and at times maintain the same objectification
through all changes, like Mumbai is Mumbai, even though its population and
looks changed drastically over the last 200 years. All measurements ( fixed or changeable) are properties and all properties are stories and
attributes that help in objectification of forms, as if objects were isolated
and could stand alone, in their own right, unconnected with the rest of perception,
enduring in time.
Waking up shifts the perception to the next level, wherein,
time and space are seen for what they are or rather what they ‘were’ not and
this progression of perceiving also could shift or transcend into higher or
other planes, to notice more mystery of
creation.
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions
of consciousness into awareness”.
~ Lao Tzu