October 6, 2011

WWW uses the term "apperceiving" to describe awakened perception or true seeing--the way an enlightened being navigates.  This is a very nuanced choice of words.  It implies that this fresh "seeing" is prior to and free of objectivization, that it is empty yet at the same time full of what WWW calls "the immensity which is our noumenal non-being."  I am nothing and therefore everything.  "Am" is the first flicker and the last remnant of manifestation emergent from the unmanifest.  As apperception fleshes out into "am," the world is born.  This is why the sages tell us that we create the cosmos and the cosmos is us.  This is why the Zen masters can tell us to swallow the Pacific in a single gulp.