What is this?

What is Awakening? (Part 2) - (The Mirrored Gates) 11 mentions

• uh it can also be kind of just the locus or the seat of sensation or awareness it can also be regarded as that which we
• sometimes the buddha talks about it as uh as a kind of awareness um a kind of consciousness consciousness
• consciousness without an object awareness without an object sometimes the buddha articulates this
• makes it very clear that it is not the same as consciousness or awareness and it only the the opening to it only
• um just in what i've said so far in terms of is it awareness is it not awareness etc
• terms of is it awareness is it not awareness etc um
• way the conditioned mind can get to is simpler than awareness it's simpler than oneness
• cosmic consciousness the oneness of awareness the oneness of nothingness etc etc
• say it is aware uh in in the usual sense of awareness um a because it's not in time b it has
• excuse me any phenomena awareness time the now you name it
• or an or a space or you know whatever or vastness of awareness or disappear completely at times in cessation of

The Wonder of Emptiness - Seeing That Frees (Part Three) - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 11 mentions

• sustaining a continuity of mindfulness a continuity of awareness does wonders it can do wonders either
• good to know that and to repeat that awareness but uh this is something slightly just a
• you can also do it with everything at once so just open the awareness of kind of global awareness and and just change
• once so just open the awareness of kind of global awareness and and just change change change flux
• emotions or the intentions or the awareness mean mine something happens through meditation you through
• personality or emotions you are awareness you are consciousness you are the witness have you heard of something
• not definitely not you're not even awareness so that going down to that level where there's a kind of
• but a suffer either deliberate or implicit identification with awareness that a level of deconstruction a level
• further not even the awareness even more liberating even more radical
• meta is also one of them loving kindness some of you may notice big awareness practice sometimes it's called big mind
• some or now i'm attached to emptiness or awareness or whatever it is it's all empty empty is also empty there's only a

Questioning Awakening - (November Solitary) 11 mentions

• what where are we going what you want to see is that you are awareness you're not any of this mind and body you are
• any of this mind and body you are awareness or different versions actually
• or different versions actually everything is awareness it's all one or it's all love these are different uh
• appearances and experience transcendent even to awareness or
• biology matter awareness space time there's a whole range so what do i need to
• referring to things like the four noble truth and things like awareness and this kind of common language it can seem that
• meditation is open to a vastness of awareness and if everything is awareness and they're practicing with that they've
• and compare that second one with someone who's seen that all awareness vast or small personal or impersonal is empty
• that may not usually even be part of the awareness or the discourse of insight meditation or zen or advice or ridwan or
• um in my meditation the sense of awareness opened out was vast and enormous and beautiful and unchanging
• then everything seemed like it was awareness and say it's true how do you know it's

Practising with the Three Characteristics - (Meditation on Emptiness) 11 mentions

• and both of those are possible i can open up the awareness to the whole body and beyond to much bigger space to
• energizes the the mind the consciousness as does spaciousness of awareness so when we get tired when we get sleepy the
• so opening up to a more spacious awareness can be very helpful and the practice of letting go of our
• eventually we get to what i just asked richard awareness can i let go of
• that the identification will have gone to awareness okay now again it can do that in a very conscious way you might
• believe a teaching or doctrine buddhist or otherwise that you are awareness you are the witness capital w you are the
• that without even realizing it the identification has gone to awareness that's a subtle form of identification
• subtle residing place for identification is to identify with awareness there's still an identification there
• and and that can also one can practice to be able to disidentify with awareness extremely powerful when you get to that
• thoughts there's enough spaciousness in the awareness that just kind of arising out of nothing and disappearing back
• arises and so ground of being or big space of awareness etc and that's not actually the true the truth of things

Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 1) - (Meditation Day) 11 mentions

• is why we can develop this capacity of awareness it's a mindfulness awareness attention
• awareness it's a mindfulness awareness attention these are all words that are somewhat
• discovering our freedom so the goal of the path is not awareness it's not being in the moment
• this is quite a subtle level of awareness i'm approaching a conversation what am i
• on knowing what's in awareness so it might be in the mind there's thought going on
• aspects because it's what knows it knows what's in awareness that's all it's not getting rid of anything
• it's not getting rid of anything it just knows what's in awareness it's a very simple
• mindfulness just knowing what's in awareness but as i said mindfulness is is one of these words
• dimensions so that's one aspect knowing what's in awareness second aspect that actually you
• hold it in consciousness hold it steady then the mind the awareness can draw near to that and begin to understand it
• listening it's this am i uh connected with what's going on with an awareness of what i'm doing

The Subtlety of Dependent Origination - (Meditation on Emptiness) 11 mentions

• to talk about time and finish talking about awareness and um
• been developing so far say the open awareness in that space of vastness of awareness there is less clinging it's a
• awareness in that space of vastness of awareness there is less clinging it's a space of less clinging
• pulpa this tibetan teacher from the 11th century gave for why awareness could have no inherent existence this is the
• in the coffin of the inherent existence of awareness very very powerful to actually
• um contemplate this moment of awareness in this way
• foreign awareness too is empty but it's wrapped up with time it's wrapped up it's what
• or really really subtle just the bare sense of awareness subject a knower no story no personality no me
• from last night's talk it's like is does awareness have inherent existence all this points to no it doesn't all these
• that actually i cannot separate consciousness awareness whatever i want to call it mind from attention from
• was a separate entity or consciousness awareness being i'm fine the first of gun purpose reasonings

Dependent Origination, Awareness, and Time - (Meditation on Emptiness) 11 mentions

• so for example the chitamatra open awareness just letting everything belong just letting things go or relaxing the
• and his three reasons why inherent existence of awareness doesn't really hold water and third one the third one
• asking whether this consciousness is this awareness this mind that supposedly inherent existence existent
• fact the problem with passive notions of awareness is that they don't they don't um take this they don't see this uh
• movement of intention and attention it's an consciousness awareness is an active doing process
• mind is kind of paying attention some so it involves i would say awareness and intentionality wrapped up make attention
• when there is ignorance when there is a belief in a subject of awareness objects and time
• there is a subject of experience there is awareness that knows objects in time
• there is all i am even if i don't use the word i there is awareness and awareness knows objects and that happens
• the word i there is awareness and awareness knows objects and that happens in time okay it's totally the most
• not just meaning if i if there's a self that owns the awareness if owns the consciousness so the knowing the

The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 10 mentions

• or a vast eternal seeming awareness empty fabrication
• much less fabricated than our normal sense of consciousness or awareness but still a fabrication empty
• attention i'm attending to the totality vast awareness there's a tension there and the mind is actually in a subtle way
• learn to unfabricate that too whether it's a vast awareness whether it's um
• self of the mind of consciousness awareness whatever word you want to use for it of objects of world of space of
• um if i'm hanging out in what some people call big mind or vast awareness or whatever that too is it's
• looking just like the vast awareness and i can go much deeper at states of much less
• than either of those the vast either the vast awareness or this atomistic process much deeper
• thoroughly there's no self view at all not process not atoms not big awareness not nothing any self-view is empty is a
• or you might just say i'm i'm in a state of letting go or resting in awareness some people use that phrase or i'm just

Awakening - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 10 mentions

• formations and consciousness also including awareness any way of conceiving that the self is that or owns
• including such basic things like awareness or as we're talking earlier today space or time
• one of the views that's quite common is that awareness is the ultimate truth and this kind of vast awareness is is the
• that awareness is the ultimate truth and this kind of vast awareness is is the truth with a capital t
• buddha say to go beyond that to go beyond that view to see that awareness too is also empty
• okay or even something more subtle awareness awareness is here it's always here you
• or even something more subtle awareness awareness is here it's always here you don't need to go anywhere awareness is
• awareness is here it's always here you don't need to go anywhere awareness is the deathless it's always present just
• the deathless it's always present just rest in awareness that's also pretty easy
• this is you know there is time and there is awareness in there as well and they all have inherent existence when when it

Energy and Transubstantiation - The Alchemy of the Body (Q & A) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The... 10 mentions

• and insight meditation so there's a kind of propensity for the awareness to to just be be aware of sensations
• sensibility that kind of tuning of the awareness it just becomes more and more second nature and then you've got like
• can shift the energy body i can shift to other kinds of awareness of body but the more you hang out there make it easy for
• two possibilities one is um make the awareness space bigger if that makes sense so as i said this
• a space that's usually a bit bigger than the body yeah now the awareness can go very small i could pay attention to you
• or i can go really huge so there's like gradations of how big the awareness a whole spectrum of how big the awareness
• gradations of how big the awareness a whole spectrum of how big the awareness can be right
• uh usual kinds of sensations in awareness but they're in a bigger space so the mind is not sucked into them so
• my energy body i'm trying to include that in the awareness because that's how i notice what's helpful what's not what
• um the other one of just universal love or universal awareness is more is more normal as practice deepens in inside