{"id":573,"date":"2009-06-09T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2009-06-09T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T06:24:08","slug":"to-see-or-to-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/to-see-or-to-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"To see or to sense ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do we sense things beyond the world we construct from our &#8216;five senses&#8217; ?  I am sure we do, and there is enough scientific data to prove that.  But does our reliance on our &#8216;five senses&#8217; hinder our ability to truly sense things.  Are the yogi&#8217;s right when they say that we should shut out the world to truly &#8216;see&#8217; the world.<br \/>\nAll of us have had such experiences, and most of us deny ourselves those experiences. By calling it a play of imagination. But in my experience, these moments have been of extreme simplicity and clarity. The sensing is of the unity of all things beyond analysis and understanding, in the realm of experiencing.  These are meditative moments that force you into the clarity of &#8216;now&#8217;. Not always in meditation &#8211; but events that can lead to that which meditation is hoping to achieve.<br \/>\nIn one such moment I actually decide to write at random, without imposing my intellect upon the writing, even without imposing my imagination. Just write. And I wrote something I have shared before :<br \/>\nI search for that which I see<br \/>\nand when the searching stops<br \/>\nthe seeing begins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we sense things beyond the world we construct from our &#8216;five senses&#8217; ? I am sure we do, and there is enough scientific data to prove that. But does our reliance on our &#8216;five senses&#8217; hinder our ability to truly sense things. 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