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Living Cognition

Understanding not as a dead product, but as a living perception

A View on Metamorphosis: How Life operates — Shapes "move". The question is: can we move with them..?

A View on Metamorphosis: How Life operates

A long slender leaf will, when experienced through movement, be understood as related to sun and light.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition X — Where we refrain from finality, something deeper appears.

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition X

Naming is not knowing. Real knowing lives at the threshold of concept—where perception meets becoming, and meaning is allowed to emerge without being fixed.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition IX — To behold the world without grasping it—this is the beginning of sacred seeing.

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition IX

True perception does not possess or consume—it participates. In this module, we explore how cognition becomes an ethical act when we behold without reducing, and allow beings to appear in their own becoming.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition VIII — The living idea does not declare itself—it invites us to enter, to perceive, to become.

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition VIII

True ideas are not static formulations we grasp and store—they are living, formative processes we participate in. This module explores how entering the gesture of a living idea transforms both our perception and our being.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition VII — Perception and concept—outer and inner—two halves meet in the quiet act of knowing.

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition VII

Knowledge arises from the formative moment when inner and outer reality meet—and how cognition becomes a moral, participatory act. It is the living union of both perception and conception.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition VI — Thinking gestures: before we speak, the inner movement is already there; we can modulate it.

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition VI

Before thought resolves into words or conclusions, it moves. Thinking gestures—reaching, circling, weighing—and these gestures carry meaning. To perceive them is to enter a living language, where cognition becomes a moral and formative act.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition V — Meeting the world, con-ceiving, is to be born together with what is beheld..

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition V

Before we name, we are already in relation. This module explores the space before concepts arise—where thinking meets the world as gesture, not definition.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition IV — A slow stream forming curves in the grassy landscape — the gesture of thinking tracing the shape of the world.

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition IV

Concepts are not static containers but inner gestures of perception. This module explores how living thinking approaches the world not by reducing it to terms, but by forming gestures that meet the essence of what is becoming.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition III — Being reveals itself underneath hard concepts and notions

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition III

Most view thinking as private, abstract, and inert. But on the path of living cognition, we begin to sense it differently—as a form of perception. In this module, we follow thinking as it becomes a subtle organ of seeing, capable of beholding being.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition II — Living thinking begins where we attend to the act, not the result, of thought.

Living Cognition

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition II

What if thinking is not just a private process, but a living gesture—an act of reverent participation in the world’s becoming? This module invites us to enter that gesture and discover what truly lives in thinking.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition I — A first orientation on the nature of perception

Living Cognition

Discerning the Real: A Path of Living Cognition I

A first step into the path of living thinking: not naming, but beholding. Not concluding, but remaining with the unfolding of what is.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

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