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Samadhi in Metta Practice - (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

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

Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 8 mentions

• it's more implicit so even this awareness of the implicit view of the image and what the image is or what it
• detail of an image at the exclusion of the emotional awareness of emotional sensitivity to emotional and energetic
• but also that includes a homogenization of the awareness through the space of the energy body in other words so often
• it's very common to feel like the awareness is somehow in the head looking at the body or sometimes that they're
• even separate or but there's this sort of the awareness is located here and the body is more than that somehow
• homogenization of the energy but also of the awareness through the space of the energy body
• so that generally speaking the body and the awareness are less fragmented and also the
• um awareness sensitivity of and then also navigating possibilities

"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

Judgment - (Cambridge Day Retreats) 8 mentions

• power of calm awareness but calm noticing of what's going on in the mind and just
• lot about doing a tremendous emphasis on mindfulness and awareness and attentiveness of being present
• mindfulness is there awareness is there presence is there brightness is there
• regarding everything as kind of equal from the point of view of awareness so to say that like that analogy of the sky
• or bad parts with their ugly or pretty from the point of view of awareness or you could say the mirror of awareness
• from the point of view of awareness or you could say the mirror of awareness everything that comes in front of that
• the same from the point of view awareness it's the same and we can begin again this is a a
• start practicing seeing things from that sort of standpoint of awareness not making such a distinction between

Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Five) - (The Boundless... 8 mentions

• spacious uh the opening out of the awareness into kind of vast awareness and remember please remember it's just
• um starting anchoring the awareness the mindfulness in the body really important
• so that's the kind of root the center of the awareness so to speak and then from there when you're
• sounds are coming from one can't help but open out the awareness the awareness opens out there so it's it's almost like
• the sounds are a support for this expansiveness of the awareness and then within that one is just so to
• speak resting in that openness the awareness is open and receiving the sounds but still also the body
• and it's more we could say receiving the awareness is receiving phenomena receiving experience
• painful we're registering it but we're not kind of letting the awareness really touch

Beyond the Prison of the Self - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 8 mentions

• you would say openness awareness of interconnect connection or even interpenetration awareness or into
• awareness of interconnect connection or even interpenetration awareness or into penetration so move it from
• it just comes through the presence of of awareness there can even look at your look at your lover
• something extra and in a way false actually includes awareness sometimes when one practices in this way
• and there's what's left is a sense of i'm awareness i am the witness i am you know with capital letters
• or you may hear teaching saying you are awareness your true nature is awareness and buddha dharma doesn't actually stop
• don't even need to uh to identify with awareness there's nothing anywhere
• subtle aspect of our existence our awareness completely radical uh not holding on to

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

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

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 7 mentions

• motivational and cognitive universe a dynamic center of awareness emotion judgment and action organized into a
• the process or interconnectedness or whatever and vast awareness whatever it is
• because all is one or it shines through everything that has awareness or whatever because awareness is what's
• everything that has awareness or whatever because awareness is what's divine and therefore anything that has
• divine and therefore anything that has awareness this is a different vision or sense if you like of the person and
• concepts of space of time of awareness all that is empty thoroughly
• just the bearer sense of consciousness or vast awareness this moment is co-created with me any sense of self