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Instructions on the Mindfulness of Thought - (New Year Retreat) 10 mentions

• what's really can be really helpful for this is opening up the awareness wide and really being quite spacious
• helpful so letting the awareness open out into listening
• encouraging sometimes a much more spacious awareness really really a lot of space using using the listening
• now sometimes people say the nature of awareness or the nature of mind is actually uh its true nature is is space
• here looking out at the world it's almost like the awareness opens out and everything is in that
• opens out and everything is in that awareness so thoughts uh body sensations sounds
• from the perspective of that space of awareness is something very spacious it actually doesn't matter what happens in
• sometimes in the meditation you can begin to get a sense of the awareness as that kind of unperturbable space
• that's actually not the ultimate nature of awareness but it's it's actually really really helpful really helpful to
• about the body feeling free to open up the awareness if you like

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

Emptiness and Insight Meditation - (New Year Retreat) 9 mentions

• moment we're not in the present moment with enough openness and awareness that's the problem that's the root of it
• seen by with practice and meditation also awareness something that might be the last kind of
• fortress of what appears to have its own kind of reality awareness the sense of awareness whatever else we might say
• kind of reality awareness the sense of awareness whatever else we might say about this it's kind of a dream or it's
• an illusion or whatever there must be awareness there must be awareness to dream or whatever but even
• awareness there must be awareness to dream or whatever but even that turns out not to have inherent
• whole show a world a self experience time the present moment awareness it's all a magic show
• is to see through that thing ultimately to study awareness is to forget awareness
• to study awareness is to forget awareness to study time to study the present

Heat and the Material - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 9 mentions

• frameworks or approaches not that at all but that we hold them in in an awareness of an ongoing exploration that i don't
• um to that person and and so a kind of opening up a self-awareness and opening up and and a training and a a an
• not dismiss it um yes good part of emotional awareness skill health etc yes a part of what can
• it may be again it may be that the energy body awareness is just more uh readily and wholly available so again
• imagination there's a sort of mindful awareness or deconstruction of images as a second
• don't say so much the self is because we might say something like the awareness is bigger than the emotion
• than the emotion can we have a sense of the awareness being bigger than the emotion
• of ways of looking uh where we or the mindfulness or the awareness um are regarded as encouraged to be
• can fall out of that oh the energy body uh awareness shrunk or feet planted on the floor etc and that

Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Three) - (The Boundless... 9 mentions

• this uh idea which has gone by different names of a sort of bubble of awareness or an egg or a larger space and not so
• experience there in a narrow way but actually opening up the awareness a little bit to encompass the whole body
• and what to do with this well it's just opening out the awareness and kind of hanging out in there and and hanging out
• out that space inhabiting that space with awareness so far so good right just review yeah
• experiences along this central axis it's very gentle open hands of awareness you're just finding your way into the
• like you notice them in in the bigger space of awareness in in the field of what's going on in the in the periphery
• meditation tradition about continuity of awareness continuity of mindfulness and very
• slower moving slower and more gently it's almost as if awareness can pervade the system more when there's more
• slowness at first until we're practiced more and more with awareness it can be it doesn't matter fast slow or whatever

Letting Go of Judgement - (Talk Given Between Retreats) 9 mentions

• mean it means um awareness judgment of another person we just see that negative thing we think
• going back sometimes the space of the awareness in the meditation gives gives that more the
• in meditation using the mindfulness using the silent a sense an awareness a way of looking that it's just a thought
• but sometimes there can be a sense that the mind process there the awareness is there
• and everything is arising impossible arising and passing in awareness thoughts body sensations emotions
• and everything arises in the space of awareness and disappears and the awareness
• awareness and disappears and the awareness remains like space like vast space in
• themselves seems to be the same sort of substance as awareness but from the point of view of awareness
• the same sort of substance as awareness but from the point of view of awareness everything's the same

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 4) - (The Mirrored Gates) 9 mentions

• the heart will come back to this um the sensitivity awareness of the energy body we've touched on that
• imaginal so an awareness or one or some of the different connecting nodes in the
• from say just a background minimal awareness to a kind of complete immersion in in this in the sense of the
• end the sense of the energy body the whole energy body the awareness is completely immersed in it
• um that energy body awareness where it is on its scale relative to the attention
• i've got basically both of them um awareness and attention to both of them in imaginal practice and the
• that so i can lean it back so to speak um in into the awareness of the energy body more of the energy going there the
• let's see the first one was the energy body awareness and we said a little bit about that we said a little bit of the
• um is this something here that we can bring awareness to and find ways to open up so that we don't

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 6) - (The Mirrored Gates) 9 mentions

• is becoming more subtle and correspondingly our awareness and our um responsiveness and our uh
• hospital whole body energy body awareness and um the sense of eternality of of if you
• there's um that energy body awareness and that eternity can open up the door to the
• um and and that realization that um awareness that recognition that concept
• so that as i said a 20th aspect as a concept as an awareness as a recognition it helps for some people helps in the
• meaning that the self somehow or the mind or the awareness or something here in the subject or the way of looking
• empty self is empty subject is empty awareness is empty mind is empty ways of looking are empty they don't inherently
• looking or the subject or the self or the mind or awareness that does does the looking does the sensing
• a dependency on the subject on the way of looking on the mind or awareness of self but not not without any

Letting Go of Judgement - (Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland) 9 mentions

• what does that it means um awareness judgment of another person we just see that negative thing we think
• going back sometimes the space of the awareness and the meditation gives gives that more the
• in meditation using the mindfulness using the silence a sense an awareness a way of looking that it's just a thought
• but sometimes there can be a sense that the mind process there the awareness is there
• and everything is arising impossible passing in awareness thoughts body sensations emotions
• and everything arises in the space of awareness and disappears and the awareness
• awareness and disappears and the awareness remains like space like vast space in
• themselves seems to be the same sort of substance as awareness but from the point of view of awareness
• the same sort of substance as awareness but from the point of view of awareness everything's the same

Freedom from Fear and Anxiety (Dharma Talk) - (Cambridge Day Retreats) 9 mentions

• as we bring to the breath so we can bring our awareness our investigative mindfulness to everything
• manifestation fear just allowing the awareness in the same way it touches the breath to touch those
• being become intimate with it like the awareness becomes intimate with it so mindfulness is the basic kind of
• instead of focusing so much on the awareness of the fear that i was talking about before and what does it exactly
• usually we're pushing it away what if we just open open the awareness and welcome these difficult sensations
• noticed very very quietly in the sort of background of the awareness this anxiety just just a subtle kind of
• it's got some space to it you can actually open up the awareness open the eyes and take in the space of the room
• all this was kind of operating just just underneath the radar of awareness began to uncover that and it actually began to
• when the relationship to the present moment is one of interest awareness openness kindness