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Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 1) - (The Mirrored Gates) 50 mentions

• um and without that kind of care without those kind of awarenesses and without those kind of prerequisites
• don't we're not taking care but there's not enough awareness of certain aspects and areas and not enough sensitivity and
• to pay attention to to be aware of to bring it on into our awareness and what might be prerequisites for this kind of
• and with respect to body and energy body what we're calling energy body awareness with respect to
• um that whole domain of sets of skills and awarenesses and arts if you like um it asks of us quite a degree of
• um subtle discrimination subtle awareness etc it's asking of us
• mentioned for instance humility and reverence and the awareness and sense of beauty and sensitivity to beauty
• um already in the past i've placed great emphasis on energy body awareness and skill with the energy body
• almost second nature um the energy body awareness and the different ways of
• for one to be ground in the energy body with that whole awareness with that whole range that's implicit in in what
• skill and art and awareness with an awareness of our emotional life and everything that goes
• development of the art of emotional awareness and emotional care um and i i think it's so important for
• specific instruction with regard to emotional awareness it's quite sort of disciplined and circumscribed each kind
• um ingrained habit of awareness of the mind state and and the emotional state
• of an organic automatic part of my awareness um
• become really just part and parcel of one sort of normal state of awareness is that there's a state of there's an
• that there's a state of there's an awareness of what the emotions are and and and actually by emotions i i can use
• gross emotions as well you know so this is development the awareness again over the whole range so that we
• um with regard to emotional awareness and emotional the art of being with one's
• don't actually get any any degree of nuanced awareness or sensitivity um in terms of what's actually going on
• so a second possibility is a much more delicate awareness um so we're still focusing for instance
• very very light very delicate uh the the awareness so something like sadness can be quite a fragile feeling quite uh
• cupped hands of metaphorical cupped hands the holding of the awareness so the
• the awareness itself has some holding in it sometimes part of that or a way of doing
• that is to to kind of have uh infuse the awareness this might be a fourth possible to infuse the awareness with
• awareness this might be a fourth possible to infuse the awareness with kindness
• um so it's it's all it's mindfulness it's awareness but you're sort of turning up the dial of the kindness in
• against a sharp rock you know the the kindness that's infusing the awareness is just is just lapping gently against
• instead it's almost like the mode of awareness goes doesn't have any not interested in the story it's not
• include the sense of self in in the emotional awareness so yes the sensations yes the emotion
• um the the the lens possibilities here on my on my awareness and my attention um but another possible is actually
• this well which south if we're including the self in the emotional awareness second possibility is an imaginal self
• in the larger possibility including the self-awareness and the self-care in the character emotions is is a kind of
• this seventh possibility of including myself in the uh awareness of the emotions and the sensations is actually
• way that's fruitful rather than just i can't have self-awareness i can't have a self-sense i can't have a selfie you
• rarify at times and some you know somewhere in in our awareness we know that it's empty but we're not leaning on
• but the main point there was to in our awareness of and care for the life of the heart the emotional life where we
• um including the the self and self-awareness in various degrees of fabrication and directions of
• fabrication and directions of fabrication in our awareness and care let's touch on one just one more piece
• are too subtle and we don't even we don't have the awareness needed to kind of notice what's going on or when
• in this sort of prerequisite or need for emotional awareness and emotional care skill of art
• um or it's a really good idea to have developed our psychological awareness our emotional awareness
• developed our psychological awareness our emotional awareness um not just in ourselves but also of
• process while we have our own and have that awareness sensitivities capacities all of that plus it might ask of us and
• this possible um so again to have some some awareness some skill some sensitivity some
• self-honesty there's a lot of sensitivity and and awareness um that is that is asked for
• attunement um emotional energy body awareness all these factors are actually really
• gifts to oneself um all of this the emotional awareness the energy body awareness the relational
• um all of this the emotional awareness the energy body awareness the relational skill
• skill taking care of spaces the awareness of all that and the capacity to to tend and

Pain, as Void and as Sacrament - (In Psyche's Orchard) 48 mentions

• pretty much the same thing but with a much more spacious awareness so in the first practice let's say it was my back
• so actually again relax the body then let the awareness get really large i mean as larger than the the room that
• possible one one way of really helping um open up the awareness to a more spacious awareness
• um open up the awareness to a more spacious awareness like that um uh is is by listening
• just trying or supporting or letting the awareness open up much more special spaciously
• the let's call it the space of our awareness it's taking up much much less and we actually have that sense here's
• with this much more spacious attention and awareness basically
• contraction doesn't help there's also contraction of awareness that happens with clinging and as we
• second version of mindful it's a much more spacious awareness that contraction of awareness also doesn't help
• more spacious awareness that contraction of awareness also doesn't help it uh
• there's also a way in which we could say that a smaller awareness um like a it
• there's a the contraction of the awareness but there's something more fundamental
• than this muscular contraction or contraction of awareness something more fundamental to the way
• narrow tension with a spacious um attention or awareness we can talk about directing matter to phenomena to
• and looking at it through a lens of the awareness that knows it is anatized not me not mine is usually
• pain at the same time we're including an awareness of the awareness of that pain including both and then regard the
• including both and then regard the awareness of the of the pain our awareness of it
• awareness of the of the pain our awareness of it regard that as anatan
• as we're attending to the pain also include in our awareness the very very subtle
• not just the unpleasant vein not just the pain but also the awareness of the pain is also empty which again means
• deep level of practice and a very very um even quite sophisticated awareness uh understanding excuse me sophisticated
• dependent on my identifying with the awareness of it all these factors
• practice that i call the vastness of awareness where there's a very spacious kind of effortless seeming awareness and
• awareness where there's a very spacious kind of effortless seeming awareness and phenomena arise and pass within that
• phenomena arise and pass within that vast awareness within that space spacious awareness and they seem very
• vast awareness within that space spacious awareness and they seem very insubstantial these phenomena
• they're of the nature of the substance of the awareness um some people call that um
• are at the level of what i call the vastness of awareness really really important stage from a lot of
• unfabricated beyond any sense of space any sense of awareness in in in that sense of vastness of awareness any sense
• any sense of awareness in in in that sense of vastness of awareness any sense of phenomena arising any sense of
• stages further than this vastness awareness of what some people call the nature of mind
• organizational practice the nature of mind nature of awareness so when when i use this is where you
• only the non-dual it's called gnosis wisdom awareness only non-dual wisdom is and sanskrit only the non-dualiana of a
• so only the the non-dual now wisdom awareness of a buddha mayana buddha is able to fully know the
• about before in terms of the vastness of awareness and so-called nature of a mind and a lot of the words can be used at
• which means i need to be there with my energy body awareness i need to be there with that open and filled with that kind
• in relationship to this dukkah so the energy body awareness is receptivity to the sense of soulfulness this kind of
• describe as i go into explaining what happened and the time awareness actually is quite then multi-leveled and complex
• uh because the time awareness included as things opened up it included the flow of
• the whole narrative in it so that the time awareness involved or that came actually included all of that
• death times or periods so somehow in the time awareness there's both uh there's all kinds of different sensors and
• that so again we could say oh just awareness is divine in terms of it's the same
• water everywhere it's all water there's no difference between my awareness and your awareness and the next person's
• no difference between my awareness and your awareness and the next person's awareness it's all just the divine
• your awareness and the next person's awareness it's all just the divine substance of awareness once you mix it
• awareness it's all just the divine substance of awareness once you mix it back into divinity it's all just saying
• given back was something very personal wasn't just my awareness let's say being the same nature as everyone's
• being the same nature as everyone's awareness universal awareness so this uh perhaps just as an

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) - (Path of the Imaginal) 45 mentions

• just a sort of bare moment of consciousness or a vast awareness or something like that embracing all things
• um or the the universe or pervades all appearances is awareness and this can come in lots of different flavors don't
• um a oneness of all things in one awareness sometimes people call one mind or big mind or let's say lots of
• there um but the divinity is in the awareness this awareness that is universal not
• um but the divinity is in the awareness this awareness that is universal not just mine not just in here in my body in
• and all things if you like are that awareness or express that awareness
• if you like are that awareness or express that awareness um
• one cosmic love or compassion pervading the universe one awareness of which everything is the player
• everything has the substance of awareness whatever these kinds of openings these are also universal and
• um including belief in time and space and awareness of something because all kinds of possible then there's less
• looking that delicately skillfully holds the understanding this awareness right now this moment of awareness this mind
• the understanding this awareness right now this moment of awareness this mind right now is not self
• not me not mine as the buddha says and one holds that in awareness and one sees also this awareness this mind at the
• one holds that in awareness and one sees also this awareness this mind at the same at the same in the same moments not
• the way of look in the in the view and the way of looking that this awareness this mind is
• and time is empty therefore this awareness is empty when through practice a very very deep
• like art and looks and and meditates on the present moment this awareness not self this awareness not separate from
• the present moment this awareness not self this awareness not separate from appearances this awareness in a sense is
• self this awareness not separate from appearances this awareness in a sense is beyond time is empty
• in is empty then that awareness at that time because it has a lot of insight in it and and
• and then there will be an unfabricating to quite a deep degree and the awareness um if we still talk in terms of
• um if we still talk in terms of awareness it it moves towards some completely or to largely towards this
• unfabricates there's an unfabricated awareness or consciousness there very different than our usual consciousness
• different than our usual consciousness and not the kind of vast awareness that mentioned at other times
• um if you like opens this unfabricated awareness another possibility though is an even more artful is what can actually
• thinking but that insight is there it's imbuing the awareness and yet you're not letting it completely
• um around but they're imbued with the whole sense of subject object awareness appearance is imbued with um the the
• confused with words like insight or awareness or wisdom so using all these words sometimes the vocabulary gets so
• buddha's ultimate let's call it wisdom awareness as another translation of the word noses
• this yes yes this gnosis this um awareness that is empty uh and and that nose emptiness
• aside now sometimes people use the word pure awareness but awareness always has some degree of insight or delusion in it
• the nurses the buddha noses is an empty awareness it has no inherent existence but it's a gnosis it's an awareness that
• awareness it has no inherent existence but it's a gnosis it's an awareness that knows the emptiness of everything
• so all of that together the subjective aspect the yes yes the wisdom awareness the empty awareness that knows the
• aspect the yes yes the wisdom awareness the empty awareness that knows the emptiness of all things and the object
• that other other system and the unfabricated awareness um
• could hear it or read it as there is this unfabricated awareness when there's um in insight and and wisdom there
• perhaps whose mind is this whose awareness is this whose wisdom who is is this
• um because i i can see it is not self it's not my awareness it's a real um developed uh perception possible this
• um developed uh perception possible this awareness is not a self it's a really important practice to to cultivate but
• this ultimate mind or god the mind the awareness of god or the divine so not just conceptually but
• were beyond the physical that involved my mind my awareness the roots of that and the sense of the root of that in the
• fabricated there's the um sort of universal awareness or universal love other kind of more common
• um play and merit of seeing that my mind which include my awareness that includes my imagination
• it's a nice consent i can conceive it as not separate this mind this awareness this imagination is not separate from uh

Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge - (Unbinding the Heart) 35 mentions

• identification with awareness or awareness in a cosmic sense or the space of awareness or an
• awareness or awareness in a cosmic sense or the space of awareness or an identification somehow with the oneness
• of being and so awareness or this space or sometimes people call it emptiness with
• with that can be a sense of the self uh the capital s self is awareness a kind of cosmic self of cosmic awareness
• the capital s self is awareness a kind of cosmic self of cosmic awareness and with it also a sense of oneness
• of things and also the kind of ground of spacious awareness out of which everything arises into which it falls
• is it that matter is the primary thing out of which awareness evolves out of which somehow you stick matter together
• materialist view or is it the other way around that somehow awareness mind is primary and and this matter does not
• reactivity more sense of this spacious awareness more sense of oneness and then i see if any of that happens in
• subtle levels of freedom but with the sense of the space of awareness being real
• in other words if i give some kind of reality to that spacious awareness i'm giving a kind of a ground of being us to
• can play with so partly in the spacious awareness when it really gets going we're withdrawing when i say
• everything's just an impression in awareness and i kind of suggest that a little bit it's withdrawing this belief
• now sometimes people hear the teachings and they think that's awareness because it's always here no matter what i do i'm
• always aware etc or it's the space of awareness that we've been working awareness in that broader sense
• awareness that we've been working awareness in that broader sense but actually it can't be either of those
• to say that that's deathless how do i know that either awareness in the ordinary sense or awareness even in the
• know that either awareness in the ordinary sense or awareness even in the sense of something larger and more
• so there's problems there taking awareness in any sense as or in any ordinary kind of sense as as the
• unshakable peace i can feel it as love as compassion i can feel it as awareness um i can feel it just a space
• new to you someone might have been practicing with this space of awareness stuff for a long time and taking that as
• so much beyond it one goes beyond awareness and they call it in the traditional cessation experience
• take to be completely real and unquestioned like space like awareness like time are actually also fabricated
• present moment really there's no space there's no awareness in in the usual sense
• see nothing is to see excellently so it turns out in terms of awareness that actually awareness means awareness
• so it turns out in terms of awareness that actually awareness means awareness of something awareness is kind of always
• that actually awareness means awareness of something awareness is kind of always in relationship to something to the
• appearances that i've built they are empty awareness is leaning on something that's empty
• or whether it's this big space of awareness that we've been practicing with
• it takes quite a lot to make the awareness really sharp to see very very quick impairments but it's relatively
• unfabricated business some people really want to be sure that awareness is not taken as something mystical some people
• you know in any of the stuff with the space of awareness thing we do it one has a kind of one-off experience of
• is that awareness or mindfulness or you could say our practice is always inclining
• in terms of impairments could be in terms of the space of awareness could be in terms of something else
• building and dependent rising of things but otherwise i'm always awareness is whether i like it or not always

Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5) - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 30 mentions

• someone else had a question about disidentifying with awareness so that may or may not be
• are my thoughts i am my body or i am awareness or whatever so it's just a kind of
• i i wouldn't really attempt to disidentify with awareness until there's that sense of really being able to kind
• and emotion and intention and all that that only leaves awareness as a place where identification can be and so if
• where identification can be and so if you disidentify from awareness there's actually not any identification with
• trick is in a way to start getting a sense of awareness if that makes sense so um
• if you what the buddha does is divide awareness into six six consciousnesses one with each of the scent stores so
• one with each of the scent stores so it's like there's a visual awareness there's uh hearing awareness there's
• it's like there's a visual awareness there's uh hearing awareness there's tasting etc
• you i find for instance hearing to disidentify with the awareness of our hearing is actually more difficult for
• but the trick is to get a sense of the awareness so for instance right now we could try it with the visual sense if
• but the buddha said you cannot separate perception from awareness perception from consciousness in other words to be
• but sometimes if you just sustain the awareness on it you can kind of get a sense of the
• yes it's all knowing in other words if i replace the word awareness there's a problem in english
• problem in english um with words like awareness and consciousness because they're nouns
• and so we tend to think of a thing called awareness or think of consciousness there's also a problem
• even if it's not a very tangible thing called awareness or consciousness very very helpful states but they tend to
• very helpful states but they tend to reify awareness into into a you know some kind of thing or space or whatever
• of puncturing the whole idea that awareness is a thing um
• mine i'm doing that some somehow this awareness it's me that's aware and i say well i'm aware it's not you that's why
• starts deconstructing a little bit the concept of awareness um and then you see yes it's also this
• um and then you see yes it's also this awareness of thoughts it's just happening it's just happening
• so when i say when the perception changes that awareness changes that helps break down the awareness to the
• changes that awareness changes that helps break down the awareness to the sense of the moment of awareness moment
• helps break down the awareness to the sense of the moment of awareness moment of awareness a moment of awareness and
• sense of the moment of awareness moment of awareness a moment of awareness and that that's a way of kind of just seeing
• that that's a way of kind of just seeing are these moments of awareness they're just happening so it's a way of a way of
• there's actually many ways of disidentifying with awareness there's many ways of doing all these emptiness
• um is it still on the awareness thing yeah yeah okay well i was just wondering if
• really important to fall in love with love to fall in love with awareness to fall in love with mindfulness to fall in

Nirvana and Transcendence - (Tuesday Evening Talks, Sharpham) 29 mentions

• most of us we don't live life through we're actually closed the awareness is closed we're not that awake so a huge
• especially is that the deafness is the true nature of awareness in that awareness is something vast it's vast
• the true nature of awareness in that awareness is something vast it's vast like space
• instead of the usual sense that human beings have of awareness being somehow in here
• it is and this awareness knows the object the sense begins to open up as we let go and
• with a very real tangible experience with people that awareness is actually something huge in advance
• actually happening in this vast awareness a real opening out and reversal of the
• recite all of that seem to be actually the same texture as the awareness so really all there is as one deepens in
• really all there is as one deepens in this experience is awareness whatever name we give that cosmic consciousness
• this is it this is the deathless that big awareness is the deafness everything else seems to be born out of that the
• else seems to be born out of that the sound arises out of that awareness disappears back into it so it's a lovely
• every everything's worn and dies and that awareness seems to stay the same eternal cost
• difficulty with that notion of a vast beautiful awareness peaceful awareness out of which everything arises in the
• here we have this vast peaceful awareness you can see the things arise in the past
• this talking still about this notion of awareness being something inherent permanent independent beautiful peaceful
• matter way of saying something with the words awareness and self-cognizant he goes on to say in in the
• question in that notion of cosmic consciousness vast awareness etc as the deathless
• sometimes the buddha the original buddha talks about awareness without an object awareness with no object what does that
• talks about awareness without an object awareness with no object what does that mean
• mean awareness consciousness with no object and so that's nirvana consciousness
• moment what does it mean consciousness awareness without an object unbound
• so that's a beautiful available level in practice this very open awareness of containing everything the space and
• alive and then actually experience the release of awareness not bound to that not bound to that perception not bound
• same spacious vastness awareness emptiness nothingness
• moods consciousness awareness all it's all fabricated the six senses themselves and
• fabricated awareness consciousness that which knows whatever name we want to give it
• all that is fabricated including consciousness and awareness so there are
• self-identification as me or mine with any object but also with awareness you are not the awareness you are not good
• any object but also with awareness you are not the awareness you are not good with this let's go of that let's go of

First Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation - (The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)) 28 mentions

• floor and then opening the awareness to the sense of the body
• just receiving those sensations in awareness connecting with those simple sensations
• connecting with those simple sensations and then opening the awareness filling the body with awareness permeating the
• and then opening the awareness filling the body with awareness permeating the body with awareness
• the body with awareness permeating the body with awareness air fills a balloon
• lightly becoming aware of the breathing keeping the awareness large and when you're ready again beginning to
• keeping the breath long keeping the awareness large now keeping the breath long and slow
• now keeping the breath long and slow keeping that whole body awareness the awareness stretched to fill the whole
• keeping that whole body awareness the awareness stretched to fill the whole body
• really fine either way keeping a delicate touch of awareness very light awareness in the whole body
• keeping a delicate touch of awareness very light awareness in the whole body how does it feel up the torso
• goes out whole body awareness a very light sensitive awareness to the whole body
• whole body awareness a very light sensitive awareness to the whole body perhaps you notice something in certain
• keeping the breath long keeping the awareness large how does it feel up the spine as the
• so really including the legs in this whole body awareness whole body now perhaps you notice some movements of
• foreign still keeping this wide awareness this large awareness
• still keeping this wide awareness this large awareness and allowing yourself
• want to breathe keeping a large awareness does the breath want to stay long
• responsive keeping playing in that large awareness just encouraging the breath and the body
• breath and feel that whole body awareness foreign
• playing with that the awareness fills the body and seeing if that awareness can be
• the awareness fills the body and seeing if that awareness can be really close really alive and bright
• so not so much an awareness looking at the body but awareness in the body permeating the
• an awareness looking at the body but awareness in the body permeating the body really putting the awareness
• awareness in the body permeating the body really putting the awareness inside the body to fill the body
• if you want actually centering the awareness in that place and knowing that place
• playing with the breath the whole body awareness that
• sense of contentment with it and inclining the awareness towards what does feel okay what does feel pleasant

Approaches to the Hindrances - (November Solitary) 27 mentions

• that's actually just more subtle than we've got an awareness to see so we're we just land with a kind of
• actually uh come up whenever so we could have a very open awareness practice and just sitting and just being with the
• openness the lovely openness of awareness hindrances will still arise within that practice they actually arise
• knowing mindfulness awareness attention consciousness are actually not the
• oh they're sloth and topper it's not just a neutral awareness in other instances quite a number of
• what is with mindfulness what is with the knowing so when there's awareness when there's attention and mindfulness
• factors with the knowing mindfulness we might like to think of it or awareness or attention as something kind of that
• aversion is present anyway in my awareness without me realizing it building a thing i think i'm just being
• just sitting here and everything's in awareness not so not so okay
• the mind space so it can be very helpful to sort of open up the awareness to include the whole body
• there's a sort of more spaciousness to the awareness that works in the opposite direction of the natural
• so really really opening up the awareness and in encouraging opening to a sense of
• uncharacteristically quiet but just opening up the awareness to include sound allows the spaciousness to come in
• can have a kind of sense of that spaciousness of awareness kind of accommodating experience it's almost if
• all the experience is happening within that awareness coming and going and arising and passing
• letting them letting them explode in this more accommodating awareness just letting them be there there's this
• helpful sometimes to work with a very open awareness and a lot of space particularly if it's very strong just
• space open awareness can be very very skillful last hindrance is doubt
• yeah well choices awareness is is something that people use in with different
• meanings so it's a kind of choices awareness practice sometimes for some people what choices awareness
• awareness practice sometimes for some people what choices awareness means means when sitting
• consciousness is like right now i have a pain here so that's where the awareness goes i just let the awareness go there
• pain here so that's where the awareness goes i just let the awareness go there and then that subsides whatever and then
• the people use the word choices awareness is just letting everything be together in a space of awareness and
• awareness is just letting everything be together in a space of awareness and just letting it belong to that space
• able to do that in relationship to awareness you know so it gets much more subtle but
• to what john was asking this sense of kind of resting in an open awareness and i'll i'll explore non-doing and letting

Breath Meditation (2nd Instructions/Guided Meditation) - (Unbinding the Heart) 27 mentions

• and when you're already stretching the awareness opening it out to spread to fill the whole body the
• of a ship at sea filling the body with awareness and just feeling that space of the body
• necessarily but within this whole body awareness this stretched awareness expensive
• but within this whole body awareness this stretched awareness expensive awareness
• this stretched awareness expensive awareness feeling or even imagining sensing the
• move open the whole body from that point so centering the awareness at that point but open to the whole body
• you're staying with that very open awareness that covers the whole space of the body
• moving the center of the breath the center of the awareness even to a similar point on the right side
• foreign and then centering the awareness and centering
• you torso the head everything bubble of awareness a balloon of awareness
• bubble of awareness a balloon of awareness and just sensitive
• and then if you feel ready moving that center of awareness center of breathing
• below the sternum the breastbone centering the awareness there but radiating it out from there and
• filling the space of the body with awareness perhaps at that point from that point
• so centering the awareness there stationing the awareness there and it's sensitive
• centering the awareness there stationing the awareness there and it's sensitive to the whole body
• and again moving the the center of awareness and the source of the breath
• and including the whole body the whole balloon of awareness and again moving
• the center of awareness the center of breathing
• the whole body is filled with a luminous awareness and filled with the energy of the breath
• explore as a center for the awareness of center for the breath
• already this spacious awareness that we're trying to work with actually shrinks it
• whole thing kind of gets knotted so notice that notice that the awareness has shrunk almost definitely and expand
• it again fill that whole body the balloon of awareness the balloon of energy fill it out it will really help
• balloon filled filled with air don't let the awareness shrink too much when there's difficulty
• helpful is actually noticing that in the space of awareness that we call the body and the body awareness there might be a
• space of awareness that we call the body and the body awareness there might be a region that actually feels quite okay

On the Essence of Being - (Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation) 24 mentions

• one is the notion of buddha nature one is the notion of awareness as essence and one is a notion of being as
• thing anyway um awareness awareness so
• we can meditate and we meditate and meditation is a lot about awareness we go on about it you know probably you're
• sick of us going on about you know awareness and pay attention etc and can can sometimes feel like after a while
• can sometimes feel like after a while awareness is sort of something that's always there
• always there two notions of awareness can kind of get solidified around as if they are the
• one is that we begin to feel that awareness is like a kind of mirror and again this could be very conscious a
• thought through there's a kind of what awareness does is it's like a mirror to the world and it the world gets
• the world and it the world gets reflected somehow in awareness but there's real problems in a notion
• objective reality in that way or even an awareness that exists kind of independently of that the way a mirror
• practice over time is that awareness begins to open out and become very vast and very spacious and
• and it feels like everything is happening in that awareness everything like sounds just arising and
• sensations and thoughts just arising out of that awareness disappearing back into an awareness effortlessly infinitely
• of that awareness disappearing back into an awareness effortlessly infinitely vastly peacefully holding it all unmoved
• well in the sense of calling it consciousness with a capital c awareness with a capital a cosmic consciousness
• makes real space there's a notion of awareness as a space and also time as i mentioned
• there that things last in begins to fall apart space too yet that vast awareness kind of keeps those it rarifies those
• the ultimate reality being awareness and we express what's beyond awareness with the word awareness but we
• awareness and we express what's beyond awareness with the word awareness but we don't really mean awareness we use the
• awareness with the word awareness but we don't really mean awareness we use the word awareness but we don't mean
• don't really mean awareness we use the word awareness but we don't mean awareness when we say awareness
• word awareness but we don't mean awareness when we say awareness laughs uh
• people less aware of it but that sense of a vast awareness out of which everything has arised can also be
• notion of buddha nature there's the notion of awareness the last one is the notion of being again capital b