Our body is one big sense perception.
Our senses help us connect, experience, and make associations with our world. They arise from space and our first perception is known as true perception. It is unbiased as it is spontaneous and direct. Our sense perceptions have an earthly nature as they ground us to our lives on earth. From our senses, we may experience passion and energetic connection which then inspire us to respond or react depending on the degree of present awareness. They also stimulate emotions as they are potent reminders of memories and connections that we carry within us, either positive or negative. We have all experienced a piece of music that moves us to tears or a scene in nature that is majestic and awe inspiring. The same can be said for things that produce an experience that is draining or a negative association that we would prefer to avoid.
The practice with sense perceptions is being on the spot with our senses. Noticing through practice and intention the world before we layer on concept or fill the experience with comparisons, narrative, or preferences. When we come upon a beautiful sunrise or hear a musical composition or feel the touch of another’s hand on ours, that is the first true perception. We may then have the habit to layer more on the experience we are having, which is fleeting and gone in the next moment. True perception receives the world with all the senses open and awakened. There is a unity of outer and inner worlds coming to a point in which we make genuine contact before our analytical or discursive mind (ego) jumps in to figure it all out.
Awareness brings true perception.
We may experience blockages at first when beginning to notice the outer world through our perceptions. That may be because of some form of anxiety we have when contacting genuinely the present moment. Can we have unbiased perception and also experience energetic exchange? This is the question I contemplate and return to over and over.
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