ABSTRACT
Sensing is the living communication with the world that makes it present to us as the familiar place of our life. The perceived object and the perceiving subject owe their thickness to sensing. Specific sensory/experiential "worlds" are potentially opened by long-term, in-depth practice of meditation, martial arts, and acting/performance. In this chapter, the author assumes that there are ordinary states of consciousness (or modes of conscious awareness) and that there are transition or borderline experiences between and among these ordinary states of consciousness. He focuses on "inner" experience reflects the phenomenological experience of an embodied practice when it presents itself as having both "inner" and "outer" dimensions. One's attention, awareness, and consciousness are often working not in a single "state" but rather dialectically between and among the following states: Attention states, "Feeling" the form(s) of training-, Sensory awareness states and Toward an "optimal" state where "the body is all eyes.".
