thsi is amazing and more examples please can you
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Replying to @nosilverv @danlistensto
The experience of eating good food often seems festooned with colors and such. Synesthesia is an odd term; the mundane fact is internal experience of almost anything is multisensory, and they bleed together. Most people don't notice it. That's all.
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The whole idea of separating sensory experience into distinct channels is a distortion of language, and is contrary to experience of synesthesia, which everyone has (eg. taste is wildly influenced by smell, but also sight and touch)
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Replying to @celestialboon @zbingledack and
The error is in thinking that senses are separate at all! It all comes together to form a singular experience. Our brain is not a machine! It all blends together, and as always, state of consciousness is not fixed, and altering it can create substantial differences in perception
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Replying to @celestialboon @zbingledack and
Can verify. Awareness is unified and looking for a boundary between sense gates can collapse the apparent boundary.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @celestialboon and
Get concentrated and look for the boundary between touching fingers, direct experience of Emptiness when the boundary disappears.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @celestialboon and
Same thing can be done with different sense gates but requires stronger awareness.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @celestialboon and
Oh yeah and it helps to take the view that there is a visual-spacial aspect in feeling and sound, a sonic aspect in feeling and space, and a feeling aspect in space and hearing.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @nosilverv
@nosilverv, I'm writing a quick guide here. I'll work on a more through post. Bring up awareness of the senses. A body scan is a good place to start.1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes -
Replying to @_StevenFan @nosilverv
Choose a domain you want to explore. Set an intention to be gently curious about the sensations there. The hands or face are a good choice because of the large amount of awareness there.
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Suffuse awareness into the domain. What do the nailbeds feel like? The 1st digits, the 2nd, 3rd. Palms. Skin. bones. Warmth. Solidity. Liquidity. Sensation that changes with the breath. Pleasant or unpleasant.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @nosilverv
Then look for the boundary between things. Start small. Where does the boundary between nailbeds and flesh begin? Between 1st and 2nd? ... between fingers resting on each other.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @nosilverv
If the boundary disappears and sensation disappears, its said to have been sealed by Emptiness. Stabilize it and explore the remaining surrounding boundaries.
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