Wei Wu Wei used a term I like very much: apperception.
The pointer of this term was to suggest perception without a perceiver, knowing without a knower.
This apperception is a knowing beyond the organism, a knowing that is TOTAL...not relative.
--- Wayne Liquorman
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When I first read this post it instantly made sense. But now a couple of days later, an old question resurfaces.
ReplyDeleteIf the mind can't comprehend the Absolute and Oneness can't know itself, how can we know anything for sure?
I guess that's where the word "apperceiving" is useful. It's a different kind of perceiving than the mind is used to, "a knowing without a knower."
Diane, yes, the term 'apperceiving,' used this way, indicates "a knowing without a knower, or anything known."
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that I changed the title for the post about the geese and their reflection. "Mirror-Mind" upstream of any "one" to perceive/conceive any "thing" is im-mediate, not yet divided into "subject" and "object," prior to "us" wanting to know any "thing."
Yes, I think the previous title was no-mind, which worked, but the new title is even more "to the point." :)
ReplyDeleteIt is a bit heavy-handed, but I wanted to show a link between successive posts, around the term 'apperceiving.'
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