non-perception

SOCRATES: Then we must not speak of seeing any more than of not-seeing, nor of any other perception more than of any non-perception, if all things partake of every kind of motion?

Theaetetus 2007

Retention in Husserl has a strange status since Husserl wants to include it in the present as a kind of perception and at the same time he recognizes that it is different from the present as a kind of non-perception.

Jacques Derrida Lawlor, Leonard 2006

Perception and non-perception at a distance also depend on the same things with hearing and smell as with sight.

On the Generation of Animals 2002

Reinach, whose studies of religious origins are always interesting and characterized by a certain Gallic grace and netteté, though with a somewhat Jewish non-perception of the mystic element in life, defines Religion as a combination of animism and scruples.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

But it is the blessed virtue of Ignorance and of non-perception that they inevitably-if only slowly and painfully -- destroy themselves.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

For the priest’s progress in gradual cessation consists in an ascent through the eight attainments by the simultaneous use of both the quiescence and insight methods, and does not result from the trance of the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception alone.

The Trance of Cessation. II. The Doctrine. 1909

“This doctrine does not lead to aversion, absence of passion, cessation, Quiescence, knowledge, supreme wisdom, and Nirvana, but only as far as the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception.

The Summum Bonum. II. The Doctrine. Translated from the Majjhima-Nikya, and constituting Sutta 26. 1909

“But again, O priests, a priest through having completely overpassed the realm of nothingness, dwells in the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception.

The Summum Bonum. II. The Doctrine. Translated from the Majjhima-Nikya, and constituting Sutta 26. 1909

Now the priest who should rise from the realm of nothingness, and enter the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception without having performed his preliminary duties would not be able to lose all thought, but would fall back into the realm of nothingness.

The Trance of Cessation. II. The Doctrine. 1909

When he has thus entered the realm of nothingness, and risen from it and performed these preliminary duties, he enters the realm of neither perception nor yet non-perception; and having passed beyond one or two thoughts, he stops thinking and reaches cessation.

The Trance of Cessation. II. The Doctrine. 1909