Touching Enlightenment by Reginald A Ray

Author:Reginald A Ray [Ray, Reginald A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body, Mind & Spirit
Publisher: Sounds True
Published: 2008-01-01T04:30:00+00:00

We can arrive at some answers by taking a look at Tibetan yoga, which, in its somatic work, makes extensive use of the imagination. Within this tradition, imagination is called bhavana, or “visualization,” the act of creating mentally. The Buddhist approach begins with the insight that human beings are continually visualizing, or imagining, everything in their world. The so-called “ordinary reality” of our everyday lives is actually the product of a comprehensive act of imagining or visualizing. When we look at something and recognize it, we are engaging in an elaborate process of receiving sense perceptions, lining them up with already known perceptual categories, identifying them as this rather than that, attaching labels to them, and then setting them within our continuous narrative, including both “self” and “world,” our fundamental but misconceived dualizing of our experience.

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