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One Heart One Mind

Episode 17: The Doors of Perception

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

Meditation, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Contemplation, Psychology, Buddhism, Development, Thomasmcconkie, Religion & Spirituality

5632 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

William Blake wrote, “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite.”

How do we cleanse these doors? How do we come to see the Infinite? Get a taste, right here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thanks for listening today. I'm going to start with a line, a timeless line from

0:24.8

the poetry of William Blake. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would

0:32.9

appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up

0:39.0

till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.

0:44.1

If the doors of perception were cleansed,

0:46.9

everything would appear to man and woman as it is, infinite.

0:53.9

So why do people talk funny like this? why do people talk funny like this?

0:58.0

What does this mean?

0:59.6

If we cleanse the doors of perception,

1:01.6

everything would appear as infinite.

1:05.6

It's an interesting story,

1:08.0

perhaps an insight into these mystical lines of poetry.

1:12.6

I want to share a modern Buddhist parable that I get from one of my teachers, Shenzhen

1:17.6

Young.

1:18.6

He loves this story and I love it too, so I'm going to kind of do my best to share it with you.

1:24.6

It happens probably, I'm guessing, back in the 90s, maybe early 2000s in L.A.

1:32.2

Shenzhen's friends, they own a center that has sensory deprivation tanks. So if you haven't done one of these,

1:39.3

it's a saline solution, so your body kind of floats like a cork in it.

1:46.0

Think like Dead Sea times three, something like that.

1:50.7

So you're virtually weightless.

1:52.0

You feel virtually weightless.

1:54.0

And then there's no light in this little chamber.

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