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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

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

Second Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 8 mentions

• contracts so actually opening it out to really fill out the awareness filling out the body actually helps sometimes
• even opening the eyes and letting the awareness take in the whole room spaciousness really helps against the
• waters there's somehow the awareness has some some warmth some kindness some
• does that make sense yeah so it's it's a kind of mix of awareness and kindness in a more informal way
• maybe maybe just try this being that that whole bubble of awareness and paying attention
• again if you like if it feels helpful kind of centering your awareness letting the center of the awareness be
• kind of centering your awareness letting the center of the awareness be at the center of the chest
• opening up this bubble this balloon this container of awareness to include the whole space of the body

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

• experiences are universally one with probably awareness is the most likely thing sometimes love one with a kind of
• thing sometimes love one with a kind of universal awareness although as this practice goes deeper before one realizes
• are universally one most likely with awareness with a universal awareness and so this is that's the way that that
• i've fathomed their true nature they are awareness um uh in in their essence or they are
• love in their essence even if the awareness or love is infinitely vast
• in space or in time in other words this awareness seems to have no limits and this in in space or in time and this
• bottom level of the dimensionality it is awareness or it is love so they are not the sense objects are
• in terms of responsibility but also in terms of the awareness of the multi-leveled participation we have in

Sensing with Soul (Part 1) - (The Mirrored Gates) 8 mentions

• truth here everything is awareness the nature of all being is awareness or is nothingness
• everything is awareness the nature of all being is awareness or is nothingness etc there are in this camp of what we
• instance around the sixth genre or um or practices of resting awareness either one this can give rise to
• of things that permeates is consciousness or awareness they're not exactly the same and it's interesting if
• um love peace joy awareness nothingness etc they are if you like um
• different kinds of oneness and love awareness or this or that or peace or that even the emptiness of phenomena
• nature of um of of love or true nature of being or awareness or some other kind of oneness
• appropriate attention means or includes is this kind of awareness of the dependent origination of what is arising

Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 5 - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) 8 mentions

• and the sort of spread of awareness the space of awareness and just feeling into the texture and
• practice to re-establish that whole body awareness and the whole light delicate sensitivity and the spaciousness of
• sensitivity and the spaciousness of awareness and just in a way resist getting sucked in to the
• kind of seat the center of of one's awareness and of course like i was just saying
• already we've got a little sphere here a little bubble balloon of awareness and maybe some matter at times and and then
• more spacious right from the beginning and in that spaciousness of awareness meta starts to fill it uh gently and and
• just as much as is possible right now and filling that space with awareness imbuing
• that bubble of space with awareness a sensitive delicate light

Expressions of Metta - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 8 mentions

• that and it can be that we're actually of a very open awareness and not necessarily staying with one
• um what we might say the mindfulness the awareness has a bit more breadth to it so as i say it's not this totally
• microscopic thing a bit more breadth of the mind first and an awareness of the body as a whole
• we actually just begin to relax it so awareness of the body the whole body just
• tightness actually be a accommodated in a larger awareness it's really okay sometimes it has to go through a sense
• then that that's what the quality of the awareness was there was just some tightness it actually made a big
• um um that the awareness might be receiving the phrases or receiving the breath if
• know that's really okay and if there's a breadth of awareness we can be uh the mind is settling i'm aware

Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation) - (Re-enchanting... 8 mentions

• that's why we put the emphasis on the energy body and that kind of awareness and this art of uh re-enchantment this
• cultivating developing refining our body awareness and body sensitivity and also our embodiment
• experimenting or playing with ways of looking with ideas with body awareness with embodiment in action with how we
• relationship to images in other words i mean there might be a keen awareness especially if it's happening in real
• mode of attention a mode of awareness a mode of being if you like
• the imagine is really a mode of being a mode of attention a mode of awareness ways of looking and conceiving
• awaken students to successive levels of awareness of the mythology that lies behind the ideology in which their
• society indoctrinates them an awareness of the mythology that lies behind the ideology in which the society

"A Body at Peace with Itself" - (November Solitary) 8 mentions

• bat the buddha saying can we move into a mode of awareness mindfulness that sees body as body
• recoiling can actually pick up in the body awareness this this resistance and tension to the pain so the first port of
• it what is an itch do we hang out long enough and actually put the awareness of what is that it's a very odd thing
• when we're working with pain we can work with the awareness in a very microscopic way so literally putting the painful
• as close as we can as detailed as we can that's one mode of using the awareness very very helpful can be
• really opening up to a very spacious sense of awareness and within that space the pain in the
• relativizes it a little bit spacious awareness can be very helpful also because within that space within
• means mindfulness immersed in the body so immersed in this field of awareness this field of energy of perception

Ways of Looking: (1) Anicca - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 8 mentions

• just the totality of sound all of it it's like a sphere the awareness is open and that openness of awareness just
• it's like a sphere the awareness is open and that openness of awareness just receives
• the movement of sensation in the whole body so again the awareness is more open more receptive
• mindfulness and there's presence and there's awareness pervading the body and waiting for the intention to take
• so one of the last hiding places of the south sense is with awareness i'm i'm the one looking i'm the witness
• position you are the witness you are consciousness etc you are awareness or it can be just a felt sense there's
• but still self-centerizes and it will start attaching to things like awareness etc but some other part knows that it's
• spaces where that identification with awareness etc you can unhook it dissolve it