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The First Jhana, and Playing and Working in (and out of) any Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 8 mentions

• equity should equanimity be mistaken for awakening is really really important equanimity is
• being but it's not the goal and and certainly not equivalent to awakening awakening does not equate to equanimity
• certainly not equivalent to awakening awakening does not equate to equanimity awakening is if we want to sum it up
• awakening does not equate to equanimity awakening is if we want to sum it up realizing emptiness realizing the
• ways play all these perceptions that's what awakening is awakening is not equanimity
• that resembles the goal that resembles what awakening is because an awakened person knows the emptiness of absolutely
• path and practicing the path that looks like what what awakening looks like as opposed to just trying to practice
• the time that's not what awakening is and that not even a healthy psychology i would

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

Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 8 mentions

• image and fantasy operates for them in regard to the path and awakening but it's almost as if the vision the fantasy
• it's almost as if the vision the fantasy the image and the concept of awakening is exactly a life without eros
• is exactly a life without eros that's what awakening looks like it's a life without eros the flame has gone out
• so there's a sense an image a fantasy of awakening uh as as what it looks like is a life without eros
• talked about of ways that the path and and the vision of awakening and the concept of awakening construe our
• and the vision of awakening and the concept of awakening construe our relationship with sense experience so
• sensors and their place on the path and in the vision of awakening um contrast papancha with what we might
• love the part that means in relation to the path and to awakening um and uh acknowledging that and then

Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 7 mentions

• also on tradition and how we think of path and goal and awakening and all that but i think i want to start it makes
• what he pointed to as the most central insight on his night of awakening it's dependent arising and particularly the
• for but with regard to awakening and emptiness i think we need to make
• and in terms of awakening and the self-view and penetrating the self you in the
• and personal connection maybe our notion of awakening needs to involve more than just insight more than
• just insight into emptiness maybe awakening also or enlightenment or liberation also implies certain
• aspects of a much larger thing called awakening but the emptiness piece delivers a lot

Concepts, Views, Reality - (Meditation on Emptiness) 7 mentions

• um that to me is not the same as awakening so it's really not the same as awakening
• that to me is not the same as awakening so it's really not the same as awakening it's it's minus quite a big chunk of
• address that really deep level awakening people still recognize the doors as dolls i mean yeah
• something very deep doubt goes confusion about what one needs for awakening goes and so it's very clear ethics is part of
• a lot of people who don't believe in the possibility of awakening um for different reasons or don't
• [music] arising of your own awakening i don't understand what does that mean
• it in a time linear sense you don't see total ignorance and total awakening you see it yes as a as a wave happening all

Sense Desire - (November Solitary) 7 mentions

• it was very clear if you were interested in awakening if you were interested in niband if that's what you wanted you
• lay people the teachings were different weren't aimed at awakening weren't really aimed at any minor for the most
• some of the people who lay people practicing are interested in awakening not everyone i'm very aware of that for
• aspiration at all but for some people really are interested in awakening and still a lay person it's very easy with
• self-judgment even in the levels of awakening it's the self-view that gets dissolved first
• one leads to nirvana like semsters are released in about least awakening and meditation experiences don't the buddha
• we see by the effects when the buddha took his rice milk before the awakening the five ascetics thought that was

Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 1) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 7 mentions

• a fire it's the extinction of a fire so that full awakening one of the sort of definitions of it is the extinction
• feeding uh the seven factors of awakening what feeds them what stars them and you
• in the fourth foundation of mindfulness seven facts awakening hindrances other other things too
• and flourishing are my factors of awakening and where they could be or where it would be better if they'd be or
• tradition its point its purpose so what is awakening what are we trying to do where should practice lead what does a
• about buddhist tradition the word awakening the word suffering but the divergence of interpretations of what
• they're talking about uh what what they think awakening is mean meaning or what suffering means to

The Necessity of Fantasy - (New Year Retreat) 7 mentions

• and we use words like wakefulness and awakening but maybe with all that we've been lulled to sleep or some dimension
• very individual and the notion of awakening is very individual nowadays you know if we think at all
• kelesas greed hatred and delusion and we say awakening is eradicating the three chalisa so these lists and concepts
• but then when we do that if that was the image and fantasy of what awakening is what is it now what will it be now what
• what is it now what will it be now what is the image and fantasy of awakening of liberation without that that's gone as a
• talked about the lion's roar of the awakened ones on awakening they utter the lion's roar what is the modern
• lions rule what might be included in the modern lions roar of awakening so is it that these other aspects that

Insight Ways of Looking, Other Energy Body Possibilities, and Summarized Instructions -... 7 mentions

• equity should equanimity be mistaken for awakening there's a really really important
• and and certainly not equivalent to awakening awakening does not equate to equanimity
• equanimity awakening is if we want to sum it up realizing emptiness realizing the
• ways play all these perceptions that's what awakening is awakening is not equanimity
• that resembles the goal that resembles what awakening is because an awakened person knows the
• path and practicing the path that looks like what what awakening looks like as opposed to just trying to practice
• the time that's not what awakening is and that not even a healthy psychology i would

Love, Healing, and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 7 mentions

• loving kindness and compassion is a path to awakening retreat very lovely retreat and a part of that was going into
• mythological story of of the buddha's awakening which i it really do take us a lot of the description is a myth and
• it some people even have even buddhists have a model but that is awakening and they call it sankara is that you're
• this dependent arising is as the buddha said central to awakening the buddha said i think i quoted this to you before
• then there is the knowing of of nibana of awakening and so this thing i keep emphasizing how
• actually integral to the movement towards awakening because it brings more clarity they bring more clarity
• possibility it means the the heart of awakening you could give lots of different