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Mindfulness and Myth - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 10 mentions

• affect our ability to have that kind of pervasive energy body awareness this is really really important if
• tell from the photograph that her awareness was spread throughout her body they were all sitting cross-legged and
• sort of copying kirsten in with their eyeshadow but the awareness was spread through the whole body and you could
• um in the posture but also in the attention in the awareness and you could feel the quality of the attention and
• easily understand how it's possible to have that kind of awareness with another person of another person how their mind
• and body are right now and how their energy body awareness is and how how the posture is perhaps allowing supporting
• that kind of body energy body awareness so what you can do you're working in the second genre but
• buddha's description what's left is nothing but this pure bright awareness wrapped in this cloth of pure bright
• wrapped in this cloth of pure bright awareness was his description of the fourth genre
• characterized by refinement of body energy awareness and and their body energy

Breath Meditation (1st Instructions and Guided Meditation) - (Unbinding the Heart) 10 mentions

• for the world and opening the awareness out to fill the body
• in and out keeping the awareness large now perhaps can you notice in the whole
• filling the body with the breath energy filling the body with awareness feeling that
• and slow and comfortable keeping the awareness spacious opening to the whole body
• still with the long breath with the awareness large can you notice the delicate attention
• so a bright awareness a bright attentiveness is permeating the whole body
• with the breath through the breath still keeping the awareness large inhabiting filling the body with a
• pressuring for that it's more like we're inclining the awareness towards noticing what might be comfortable and seeing if
• number five i've said many times is the awareness will keep shrinking and just to keep expanding it stretching
• and the whole body is breathing the whole body is permeated with awareness last one

The Nature of Enchantment - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 10 mentions

• the subtlety of and sensitivity of awareness to discriminate because of all that it actually doesn't really become
• um so when we talk about non-conceptual awareness when we talk about the total collapse of subject
• could be the perceptions of normal sensory awareness someone starts with that this the
• level what it means is this is just awareness in substance whatever this sound or this pain or this thought is
• sound or this pain or this thought is just awareness in substance so it's taking the insight and the perception
• taking the insight and the perception from what from the vastness of awareness and it's applying it as an inside way of
• looking is it just a perception it's just awareness and substance yeah but here we need to go beyond that and
• it's just the same substance as awareness it will take me to the vastness of awareness or maybe the
• awareness it will take me to the vastness of awareness or maybe the infinite consciousness but if i if my
• the universe we had the oneness of awareness from the infinite consciousness the one the

The Experience of Self (Personality and Beyond) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 10 mentions

• just the bare sense of consciousness just the bare sense of awareness and the objects of awareness and that's
• just the bare sense of awareness and the objects of awareness and that's pretty much the most subtle sense of
• there's barely anything happening there's just a sense of awareness not even really a sense of me it's just
• not even really a sense of me it's just awareness and an object a very very subtle sense of self and all the way at
• working a lot with body sense just really body awareness body awareness body awareness in different ways and
• really body awareness body awareness body awareness in different ways and quite creative
• has a capital s in god or capital s self or awareness or something and it feels like this is in
• hear this in different spiritual traditions the self is awareness you are the witness you are the witness you are
• the witness you are the witness you are awareness that's your true identity or sometimes again the self is it's the
• being or being the looking or being awareness or whatever so it's and that that's quite a journey

Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1) - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 10 mentions

• uh from that place maybe eventually the awareness begins to kind of expand out to include the whole body and the whole
• yes you know the the space around the body of awareness is not huge at the moment so i need the person fairly close
• terms of who's who's coming into your field of awareness yeah now people are different with this some people if
• hello please um field of awareness yeah um
• everything's much more useful but perhaps the awareness isn't quite so focused
• something to work with or allow when you say the awareness isn't so focused what do you mean by the awareness the the
• say the awareness isn't so focused what do you mean by the awareness the the meta feeling or what's what's not so
• itself or you're you're letting it but my awareness doesn't really know why it's trying to hold
• then i start getting tensioned sort of putting my awareness backwards and i guess my question was more around
• so when i say that what's in my mind in my awareness my consciousness

Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 10 mentions

• then we introduced also the open awareness practice and we did that guided meditation
• and opens up to that uh kind of open awareness etc where there's that less substantiality etc and the
• so far so good yeah and again here that open awareness is a resource what the buddha would call a
• um talking about how would a meditator see that awareness is actually empty of inherent existence how would a meditator
• explicitly am practicing unhooking that identification with awareness it will usually be there and it's a it's it's a
• even just for a brief moment drop the identification with awareness and when one does that i think i mentioned this
• identification there will be with the noah with the awareness and like i said that's a more subtle it takes most
• able to disidentify with the knowing the the consciousness awareness aspect and if you but if you can do that with sound
• with let's just see this as a visual field open up the awareness instead of the constants of moving from particular
• both so it's just the general sensitivity and awareness increases not in a linear way but gradually with

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

Contact and the Construction of Self - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 10 mentions

• um awareness is uh not a scent it's more um you can with the where the buddha
• would because you can have there's six awarenesses you know there's awareness of sight awareness of sound
• there's six awarenesses you know there's awareness of sight awareness of sound awareness if you can break it down that
• awareness of sight awareness of sound awareness if you can break it down that way so awareness of the mind
• awareness if you can break it down that way so awareness of the mind awareness of the contents of the mind
• way so awareness of the mind awareness of the contents of the mind so what awareness is what's aware of
• awareness of the contents of the mind so what awareness is what's aware of um something or other
• into the totality of of just hearing it's like the the awareness is just receiving receiving we maybe do guided
• there's a kind of openness to the awareness it's just sounds arising and passing
• i've become subtly pleasant so i'm tracking more the vadna in my awareness so i'm tracking more the sensation but

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

From Feelings to Freedom (Exploring Vedana) - (November Solitary) 10 mentions

• posture and there's relief into that to actually just keep the awareness open through that whole process and feel the
• um in a way a very spacious awareness so rather than looking at the pain under a
• rather than looking at the pain under a microscope opening up the awareness in in as large and expansive a way as
• be quite helpful in opening up the awareness in a spacious way
• i mean there's a sense of space and awareness then this pain that's happening somewhere in the body there's
• actually just one thing occupying a small part of the space of awareness and this somehow uh makes it easier to
• disappear uh in in this space of awareness so microscopic and spacious two very
• can can awareness separate out the vadana from the reaction
• is that a neutral factor or does the spaciousness of awareness actually influence the vadeness
• up whatever seems prominent and what some people call choiceless awareness that's one way of working and just then