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Trans-perception

‘Trans-perception’ is to transform the state of perception from the 'form-perception (observing the object of art)' to 'the formless-perception (the awareness on the invisible source of art)'.

It is to perceive not just the form of art but to discover the crucial significance of invisible qualities (the true nature of space, the origin of inspiration and the pure state of perception that are inseparable elements of the art) that are unrecognized and even ignored.

 

 

The ‘Trans-perception’ represents the change in the point of perspective:

By shifting the perception from the material to space, from the form to formless, from the art to inspiration, from the outcome to origin, from the outer to inner, from the understanding to awareness, the state of the consciousness changes.

It changes from the form-perception of the thinking mind to the formless-perception of liberated awareness.

 

 

Trans-perception is ‘enlightening and awakening your awareness’ to activate and vitalize the dormant faculty of self-awareness; it is to invite concentrated awareness to the space(formlessness), to your perception(consciousness), and therefore to the art(the origin of inspiration).

 

 

By knowing with certainty, that the art, the space and the consciousness cannot be comprehended by the thinking mind, but only be known by the perceiving awareness, the perceiver can also be self-aware of mind activity (thinking) and be able to let go of thinking in order to enter the trans-ego state.

 

 

In other words, by recognizing and ceasing the mind activity within, you can attain a higher level of consciousness (self-aware of the workings of the ego mind), thereby realizing the essence of the Trans-artwork beyond the comprehension of the ego-state.

 

 

The Trans-perception requires the self-awareness (self-perception) which is recognizing your own mind-activity objectively. In order to transcend the usual state of mind activity, it is necessary to recognize it first.

 

 

It is to perceive not only the art, but your inner state while you perceive the art: the mind's impulse, the urge and the tendency to think (name, categorize, label, evaluate, compare, interpret and comprehend the art). Alert self-awareness enables you to realize that you are thinking and 'the thinking process recognized' means that the awareness is activated. Realizing it is to transcend 'the state of being completely trapped in the subjective consciousness'.

 

 

You cannot perceive the whole mountain when you are trapped inside of the mountain

Likewise, you cannot perceive ‘your Ego’ or ‘yourself engaged in thinking’ when you are completely trapped in it.

You can see the whole mountain either by get out or get on top.

In order to recognize that you are trapped in the Ego (thinking mind) and to perceive it objectively, there must be an awareness that is not completely trapped in the subjective thinking process.

 

 

That realization of self-perceiving awareness is the trans-perception : the awareness transcending the thinking mind and transforming from the thinking mind to the trans-perceiver who witnesses that process.

Before that realization, there was a semi-automatic reactive process of thinking: reactive to whatever arises in your perception.

The involuntary reactive mind process of thinking happens based on the built-in mind structure of the mental synapses you have accumulated throughout your life. The fuel is supplied by the mental energy reflecting and corresponding to the egoic intentions, responding to whatever arises in your perception.

The liberated state of consciousness insubordinate to the ego (untamed by the built-in mind structure), can be attained through that realization, even though it can only be a glimpse at first.

 

 

That untamed perception, if attained, can glance at the art which is also the expression of the liberated inspiration acquired by the same state of consciousness: then the full significance and the true essence of the Trans-artwork can be revealed.

 

 

You are not the mind looking at the surface of art anymore then.

The consciousness, beyond the physical form of self and the mental form of ego, is perceiving the equivalent existence in the Trans-formational state of being.

Through the trans-perception, the artist and the perceiver can join in an equivalent state of consciousness: the Trans-formational state of awareness.

 

 

 

* Trans-Perception was elaborated into Trans-Art Part 2 Tasting-Art ‘The Cho-Just Once’.

 

 

 

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