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| On 2006-05-01 20:24:31 -0700, "howdydave" <howdydave@msn.com> said:
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> Howdy Stu!
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> Depends on what kind of yoga you're talking about.
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> IMO: The whole objective of jnana yoga is precisely
> that - to strip away all modifiers of perception, to strip
> away all imperfections of the "faculties of perception"
> and, finally, to strip away "perception" itself.
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> Dave
Hey Ho Dave!
Please explain how jnana yoga is going to strip away pre-preceptual modifiers.
IOW Perception is the results of smell, taste, touch, sight, & sound.
These sensations are brought to us by the sense organs and processed by
the brain. In meditation we can step back and bring awareness to the
sense organs and witness their workings and influence on consciousness.
However there are no sense organs for us to "decode" the influence of
the genome or neurotransmitters on our being. This pre-perceptual
influence is completely transparent to our awareness. We can not
easily see how the genome modifies our decision making.
We can reduce perceptual input but we have no apparatus to influence
genetic and chemical modifiers of consciousness.
The ancients may have had some intuition about genetics, though the
view of reincarnation suggests an alternative model where a person's
"essence" moves differently then through family lines. The ayurvedic
view is very distant to the modern neurological understanding of the
chemical nature of brain.
I have yet to read any Eastern treatise that acknowledges
pre-perceptual influences on consciousness. But perhaps you can
illuminate me.
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~Stu
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