ANCIENT CULTURES and PANORAMIC SENSING
Some ancient cultures recognised the possibility of using the senses in their panoramic capacity. I feel there must be many more examples of this, please contact me if you know any.
Hakalau
On Hawii it is called Hakalau. There is a new page on this, as i have only just discovered it. Also there is linked connection with a form of Zen Buddhism which seems to teach the same ideas. Please see Hakalau.Dadirri
Among the Australian aborigines it is called Dadirri : "Simply sit and look at and listen to the earth and environment that surrounds you."However in the explanations i have read, there is always an emphasis on focusing. "Focus on something specific, such as a bird, a blade of grass, a clump of soil, cracked earth, a flower, bush or leaf, a cloud in the sky or a body of water, whatever you can see."
I believe this 'focusing on specific things' is a modern development.
Source: creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture
Buddha's Middle Way
Buddha's Middle Way is a way between the two extremes of sensual indulgence and sensory withdrawal. Panoramic sensing is a way of using the senses which fulfils these requirements perfectly.Tao and Zen
Advanced martial arts combine focused and panoramic perception – i don't know how they cultivate their panoramic perception. Please contact me if you know about this.It must be the original idea behind the Taoist and Zen practice of "Staring at Walls". A blank wall is ideal to focus on, as a bridge to panoramic seeing.
The Chinese and Zen idea of "seeing without looking – hearing without listening" expresses it wonderfully. (I think it's a quote from Bodhidharma but from where?).
In Taoist and Zen literature, i believe it is meant by the term 'just sensing'...
However these last two quotes are always understood as a shift in psychological perspective and higher states of consciousness; they are never associated with how animals use their everyday senses.
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