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Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 18 mentions

• you know great lists that he comes up with and factors of awakening and this and that
• if you want to develop the brahm of ahiras if you want awakening desire is a basis for that and he lists there and
• of um the passion for awakening was not really what most people these days would
• his passion his hunger and desire for realization for awakening so this rule is
• for the path of passion on the path of passion for awakening the desire for um to unfold certain experiences and
• meditator the contemplative who hears about other people awakening who wants awaken but is not there yet he does he
• passion is needed the vision the notion or idea or fantasy of awakening involved is actually
• it's not really a big deal it's quite a small vision of awakening and some people don't seem to have an
• interest or a desire there's not much libido if you like towards awakening uh in general they don't talk about it they
• um on the contrary a very high bar for what awakening means and if i um when i place myself in a more
• um my where i set the bar for what awakening means is is really quite high in
• expanding i'm not quite receding but endlessly expanding notion of awakening so in talks like in praise of
• i've talked about this and questioning awakening and other talks um there is so that the desire is always
• um depth and diversity and range to what awakening is and can be there's always new horizons of awakening opening up
• awakening is and can be there's always new horizons of awakening opening up so why why why why all these differences
• this kind of path or that kind of path or that kind of notion of awakening or whatever it is so i want to include it
• practicing with desire even if it's a desire not for awakening for something else where it might at first be
• fantasy the notion the concept of awakening certainly

The Problem of Desire - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 17 mentions

• with regards to where we're moving in the whole path what awakening our enlightenment is whatever word you want
• because it brings suffering desire leads to suffering and awakening enlightenment is imagined or conceived of a some state
• desires desire is a suffering is a problem at awakening there won't be any desires or that's the kind of ideal of
• desires or that's the kind of ideal of awakening a very very simplistic what comes out of
• desires on the one hand so for example the desire for awakening is is a skillful wholesome desire and the desire
• we take that um kind of understanding uh awakening enlightenment is the end of suffering
• and we kind of uh reduce it to really emphasize awakening is the end of suffering and kind of reduce it in a
• certain point of view could say even the desire for awakening then is really essentially in in the desire for the end
• of suffering if that's really what's moving us then the desire for awakening is really a kind of desire for
• removing that second arrow at full awakening in a certain system of what awakening means then i've drastically
• awakening in a certain system of what awakening means then i've drastically reduced unpleasantness
• reduced unpleasantness or if my vision of awakening is not to be reborn that means really the end of
• conceive of the of of what is moving us if we desire awakening that we're desiring this radical
• that's different than uh it's not conceiving as a desire for awakening is the desire to know and to open to true
• moves us here and if the desire for awakening is conceived too narrowly this desire
• um having that attachment is some kind of second best in terms of awakening this understanding of emptiness actually
• an erotic relationship with the sense of where the path is heading to awakening enlightenment whatever word he like and

Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 2) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 16 mentions

• when we choose a certain time or choose a certain image of awakening we're actually choosing a certain view of
• scope and what is awakening what is that
• what is that scope of awakening and where it's leading
• and implicit in each dharma is a kind of awakening so how influential what are we really
• choosing i've made this point before in those talks of what is awakening i think they were called what are we really
• choosing when we choose a certain vision of awakening are we not both influenced by but also
• reading something that uh their control of what is really happening in awakening and talk about the nibandal stream entry
• teaching of that kind of view of what's happening in awakening and what awakening is and my question is what
• happening in awakening and what awakening is and my question is what effects will that kind of
• cosmology what kind of awakening does that give rise to
• kind of what's the ethos of the awakening of the soul that comes out of such a view
• it and goal to envision of what awakening is and in there as i've pointed out it also
• and ideas so for example liberation awakening freedom depth they're actually uh
• dharma talks and writings etc freedom liberation awakening depth whatever other words and through
• you mean by them exactly what you mean by liberation awakening depth freedom
• our notion what is our sense what is our image of awakening then views of cosmology and anthropology

Questioning Awakening - (November Solitary) 16 mentions

• and so even regarding something like awakening or enlightenment i was speaking on the phone with
• the years and over the decades in relationship to awakening and the questioning the question of awakening
• relationship to awakening and the questioning the question of awakening when we were talking a little bit and i
• looking at that whole area what of the uh concept of awakening what what sometimes we see over those
• reference to that word or that idea awakening enlightenment it not
• uh trend a second trend is that the meaning of awakening or enlightenment has if you like been
• perception of this world and that's what awakening has come to mean uh for some people very popularly
• is actually a kind of ossification the whole idea of awakening is has become almost like unquestionally rigidly set
• if you listen to someone who claims awakening is always the same story the same story
• what we could call existentialist dharma the awakening there if you like is realizing the existential limits of our
• limitations of that that's the kind of awakening and again there's another uh model if
• an ending of rebirth that was equated with a final awakening and we can try and erase that whatever
• a scale word skeleton very particularly what does awakening mean to you nowadays what where is this path going the
• then what and even after one so-called awakening then what
• if we just stay with this question of freedom awakening liberation are we free
• views of existence of practice of path of awakening is a whole wholly different relationship

Sila and Soul (Part 7) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 13 mentions

• that's a similar thing that all the wings of awakening that the buddha talked about the 37 wings of awakening
• wings of awakening that the buddha talked about the 37 wings of awakening uh kind of certainly works
• qualities so for instance in teachings on the seven factors of awakening there's the bojanga there's um
• where am i right now with the seven factors of awakening and when the buddha gives this teaching in the fourth
• of engine movement towards awakening so you get that partially but i don't
• uh in in in a care for ethics so awakening or liberate liberation results in
• instance that is not um emancipation liberation awakening um
• attention to awakening could i would say should bring with it a moral
• devotion i would say is a part of the road to awakening and should issue also as part of the goal
• there's no connection between mystic insight and so-called awakening and and morals
• so he was at full for the uh to to strive for awakening the possibility of awakening which he intuited
• strive for awakening the possibility of awakening which he intuited he's choosing one value the value of
• he's choosing one value the value of awakening over another value

In Praise of Restlessness - (November Solitary) 11 mentions

• us what the four noble truths mean what awakening is or we imagine it is what practice is or becomes in its range what
• of the dharma and of the path is that liberation awakening is open-ended it's open-ended
• demarcation there's four levels of awakening and is very clear it's very concrete i have it i don't have it it's
• the first or tends not to really talk much about the whole notion of awakening but could someone who's holding that
• rests on a fantasy at our dharma rests on fantasy of awakening etc the four noble truths then become whatever they
• pervasive ending rebirth as a pervasive vision of what full awakening is and that changes the whole opens up the
• suffering some visions of awakening i mentioned them in the first talk some and just to
• existence just rolling on smoothly and that's awakening now if you're really caught up in
• um but once a certain amount of freedom is there that vision of awakening it just doesn't sound that attractive
• poetic truth so the things of the dharma the dharma itself awakening buddha the tradition this that this person this
• they're they're kind of infinite so what is awakening what is the buddha what is um

'The Holy Life' (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 9 mentions

• eros on the path eros for the path and eros for awakening and soulmaking on the path soulmaking in the path the
• and intrinsically involved and wrapped up in the aim of awakening and enlightenment
• transcends it this is central to the buddha's project of awakening and ending dukkha without reaching the end of the
• what it means to end rebirth essentially in full awakening it's wrapped up in there
• his orientation how is he orienting the path and the goal of awakening in relation to life
• what is the place of life in in in the longing for awakening how does life and the end of rebirth how
• liberating process the ending of rebirth and what awakening means awakening to what
• religion in other words this idea that salvation freedom liberation awakening nibana or some has something to do with
• what is the movement of eros on the path or for the path and for awakening in if there

Buddhism Beyond Modernism - (November Solitary) 9 mentions

• underneath the notion or the vague sense or the intuition of awakening or liberation of the path even of the
• what we whatever notion or dim sense we have of what awakening is of what the path is of what practices of what life
• meditation of our practice of our notion of awakening our sense of existence and there are dominant cultural
• and society it leads to the awakening of critical consciousness poking at what's called
• does or doesn't do or how they are more generally fantasy of awakening it says fantasy of the buddha and with
• to what our notion of liberation is so there's fantasy of awakening there are fantasies it's all plural that's the
• first order the plurality of all this the range it's a fantasy of awakening fantasy of the path fantasy of the past
• concepts i am simple that fantasy of awakening is there a dionysian fantasy of
• is there a dionysian fantasy of awakening is there could there be a hermetic fantasy the fact that involves

Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Three) - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 8 mentions

• dharma and you love dharma that we also have a fantasies of what awakening is fantasies of what liberation looks like
• their fantasy their mythos of what awakening is of what the dharma is and also of what the cosmos is
• one that that mythos that fantasy of awake of what awakening is what the dharma is of what the cosmos is
• don't have time to get to the whole fantasy of awakening that i touched on and whether awakening is an arrival
• fantasy of awakening that i touched on and whether awakening is an arrival point or an open-ended thing or what
• range the image image and fantasies of what awakening is and looks like is attached on earlier so an awakened being
• fantasy of awakening and is it possible that we can open it out and actually include
• are broadening the images and the fantasies of what awakening is and looks like

On Blessed Ground: Fantasies of the Self on the Path - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of... 8 mentions

• um to the path and to our idea of awakening and offensive awakening fantasy of the
• to the path and to our idea of awakening and offensive awakening fantasy of the buddha fantasy of teachers
• heard about these different stages of awakening i wonder have i got that first stage yet am i where's where am i and
• um talk about fantasies of the goal if you like fences of awakening fences of the path and what the path involves but
• as closely as possible someone else's awakening it's the buddha right he he had this
• it's the buddha right he he had this awakening and we're somehow trying to get something pretty close or at least
• get something pretty close or at least in the direction of that awakening does this make sense the characteristic of i
• the self on the path as much as they are of awakening and and all of this thank you maybe there are loads you know