Pristine perception is not observing through a screen of conditioning. Very many of us look at things just as we were programmed to look… which really isn’t looking at all. To perceive without conditioning interfering requires a very dynamic mind that is not easily influenced by others. Such unconditioned observing is innocent, unsullied, profound, without a center, and has little to do with robotic reactions with their concomitant opinions and labels. Pristine perception does not involve the limited circumference that a psychological center brings about. Such perception is untethered, insightful, and — not being secondhand — is beyond methodology and imitation. Profound perception goes beyond mere recognition and remembrance. It is an effortless explosion of intelligent freedom.
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I love the delicate flowers in your photo Tom.
However, I have to challenge you on being able to completely discard conditioning so that our perception is pristine and free. (Unless we have become robots of course.)
We can always work towards shaking off ‘conditioning’ should we wish to but I seriously doubt 100% success and why would we wish to become robotic anyway?
Margaret, thank you for your comments but some of what you wrote is confusing to me. For one thing, robots and computers are (so far) 100% conditioned. Everything that robots do consists of reactions stemming from programming and the information that was fed into them; that is conditioning. For some reason, you seem to equate robots with an absence of conditioning.
And i never said that we should try to nullify our conditioning at 100% all of the time. We all, of course, need a good amount of conditioning, at times, just to function in this world. Also, transcending much conditioning is not what is accomplished via work, effort, or time. 😉
I take your point Tom – what I said seems confusing to me now and I’m sure I hadn’t had a glass of wine at the time! 😉
I wrongly thought you were advocating ‘preconditioned individuals’ which is highly improbable. The different effects ‘conditioning’ has on each of us makes us (and life) that much more interesting in my opinion. Think this was what I was trying to hint at when I compared it to robots.
Margaret, here’s the thing… Transcending much of one’s conditioning allows one to be a very holistic, insightful, compassionate, dynamic, and alive human being. Staying immersed in (and “as”) conditioning — as so many are — just makes one (for the most part but not necessarily in all aspects of life) stay robotic, limited, indifferent, and secondhand. 😉
On point Tom. Finding a mind that is not easily influenced and conditioned these days are far and few between it seems. Yet, I still have hope that there are less conditioned numbers than those who seem to out number us. 😊🥂🥰
Thank you, Kym! 😊 Yes, most minds are heavily influenced and conditioned these days, as was the case in the past.
I hope that there are many out there who are not overly conditioned (that i am not aware of) but it is likely that that is not the case (from what has been seen).
These flowers are so delicate looking Tom and I’m guessing signify our minds before we are affected by outside stimuli that cause us to think and behave as we do.
That’s a sweet way of seeing the flowers, Linda. But my photos don’t always intentionally go with what the written part is constituted of; they are just sometimes just placed with the article with no real purposeful connection. 😉
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“an explosion of intelligent freedom”… few words, for the whole. thanks Tom.:)
Thanks much for the reblog! Much appreciated! 😊
Gorgeous!
Very beautiful insight 🌺