Knowing Blue: Early Buddhist Accounts of Non-Conceptual Sense Perception

The text reflects on the nature of knowledge, suggesting that what one can know is limited to what they have already known, implying a boundary to understanding or experience beyond a certain point ("this side of the blue"). It presents a philosophical or poetic meditation on the constraints of knowledge and self-awareness.

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Abstract

And I find myself knowing the things that I knew Which is all that you can know on this side of the blue