What is this?

No Self, No World - (IMS Forest Refuge) 22 mentions

• self in the sense of it's in a cosmic consciousness or it's in awareness or in god or in the self with a capital s or
• but still the notion of the now or present moment or a world or awareness all that concepts and one hasn't
• world of experience phenomena being in awareness it's almost like awareness is
• being in awareness it's almost like awareness is expansive huge embraces all phenomena
• unfazed untouched the world is in awareness now both of those watching the river
• now both of those watching the river flow by and the world being in awareness beautiful uh
• the witness identify with the watcher or awareness or consciousness or whatever we might call it and might give it
• buddha said that's actually not the truth of things you are not awareness we are not awareness and we need to
• truth of things you are not awareness we are not awareness and we need to learn to uh
• possible more important is that this witness or this awareness always has with it
• there's always something mixed with awareness some
• rather than a world kind of existing in awareness one actually sees that there's this building of the world of experience
• when in in in in meditation in practice the the awareness calms and and it feels open and and we're clear we're present
• time because time is also built and it's also beyond awareness so going back a few minutes before we
• actually see there's no such thing as pure awareness putting a lot in this dharma talk i hope
• sometimes have that sense in practice of a pure awareness and as i said very beautiful very helpful but at certain
• point one needs to go beyond that there is no there is no pure awareness awareness too is fabricated it's built
• is no there is no pure awareness awareness too is fabricated it's built in this process mutually built
• in this process mutually built and awareness is a very subtle form of subject that knows an object
• consciousness and an object one sees that that is built as well awareness too we say is empty lacks inherent existence
• undone and just end up in a kind of awareness as some ultimate real thing that's a whole other talk
• subject and an object an awareness with nothing there and an object and we want to understand all of

Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Two) - (The Boundless... 22 mentions

• retreat to actually open up the awareness quite broadly um
• if it's possible to expand the awareness so it's almost as if there's a balloon
• so it's almost as if there's a balloon or a bubble of awareness rather than the central axis
• that actually you can feel the awareness expanding pushing the edges almost of this balloon
• there's a space of awareness just around the body so it's a bigger
• just around the body so it's a bigger awareness and once
• stretching this balloon of awareness you're stretching the awareness over this whole space
• of awareness you're stretching the awareness over this whole space that we call the body
• and that whole bubble that whole balloon is filled with awareness bright and sensitive awareness
• is filled with awareness bright and sensitive awareness feeling the texture
• does it feel like that whole space so there's a kind of global awareness of this whole area
• so you're really kind of opening the body and opening the awareness to that whole space of the body
• stretching it out and filling it with awareness with sensitivity
• sensitivity so the awareness is alive in that what does it feel like this space
• the attention be light letting the awareness receive whatever's there
• keep this balloon filled stretched tight with awareness and what's the sense inside
• stretching it over the body letting the awareness fill that space whoops
• foreign opening the awareness stretching it
• foreign so in this larger balloon of awareness this larger bubble of awareness
• so in this larger balloon of awareness this larger bubble of awareness maybe there are regions that feel
• it was you know it was even difficult to make the awareness big like that people are different the sort of styles of
• in relationship to them and accessing this kind of thing opening the awareness and actually realizing there's this

Energy Body: Instructions (2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 22 mentions

• tools all kinds of support in our life in our general awareness and sensitivity and very much in our
• all almost all meditation practices in a sensitivity and an awareness of the whole energy body and really include
• the sensitivity the um awareness of the energy body and the inclusion of the feeling of a whole
• second practice around emotional awareness with the energy body they want to talk about today moving back and
• cultivating the samadhi or for just the emotional awareness i'll talk about now between that and between imaginal
• talk about mostly is emotional awareness via the energy body and what do we mean by emotion well
• an emotion is a state of the mind a state of the awareness and a state of the energy body both
• and then giving some awareness to the quality of attention so it's not just that it's
• difficult emotion has more energy than the awareness and the attention we're actually overwhelmed we'll get
• now remember again i'm gonna say this so many times that awareness contracts uh anyway but it contracts also when
• uh either physically or or emotionally or energetically the awareness will shrink it shrinks basically when there's
• there's difficulty so noticing that and then stretching the awareness expanding again inflating that balloon if you like
• um of the awareness stretching it over the whole body whole body awareness even a
• of the awareness stretching it over the whole body whole body awareness even a little bit bigger really really
• inhabiting and filling that space with the awareness again over and over and keep checking because it will keep
• helped by opening to a much wider space of vast space of awareness excuse me which maybe comes from being outside and
• outside taking in the space including that in the awareness taking in the sky or in the meditation hall or in in a
• some people with more practice are actually just able to make the awareness allow the awareness to in different ways
• actually just able to make the awareness allow the awareness to in different ways to expand very very large so any way of
• not difficult and just station the awareness of but in regard to difficult emotions in the energy body the key
• and then opening the doors of the awareness to welcome that let let those sensations be there as fully as possible
• somali practice of the emotional practice emotional awareness practice that we're emphasizing today and as we

Second Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation - (Samatha Meditation) 21 mentions

• keeping at always keeping a whole body awareness keeping that awareness very full not letting it shrink it will
• so whatever one can be aware of in the fullness of the awareness of the body sometimes if the breath is feels like it
• of that is kind of a fair game to to in a way sink the teeth of awareness into really get into to feel into
• opening the eyes brightening the awareness focusing on the in-breath to energize
• attentiveness there is a kind of what you might call a background awareness so to speak
• constriction so in the fullness of body awareness being aware of that too or perhaps are we too slack are we kind
• spaciousness in the way it's a bit more as if awareness is just receptive and receiving the breath
• or some tension or something for some reason the awareness just keeps going there and it keeps going there and it
• body in the practice can we just gently encourage the awareness the attention to stay there to settle there to kind of
• can we in the summer to practice just lean the mind over lean the awareness over to be with the with what's pleasant
• the back or wherever it is the shoulder the awareness will tend to just go there and become a little bit obsessed with it
• and shrink around it can we keep trying to establish a whole body awareness a spaciousness of awareness so that we're
• to establish a whole body awareness a spaciousness of awareness so that we're not sucked into the pain sometimes if
• not sucked into the pain sometimes if the we have that whole body awareness it's almost like the pain just kind of
• the first option really whole body awareness and pervading that awareness through the body and the breath energy
• skillful and very very helpful expanding the awareness sitting the awareness where it's
• expanding the awareness sitting the awareness where it's relatively okay comfortable breathing
• comfortable most enjoyable really keeping the awareness large filling the body with awareness filling
• really keeping the awareness large filling the body with awareness filling the body with the energy of the breath
• the body with the energy of the breath luminous awareness pervading the body um
• pervading the body with sensitivity bright awareness thank you

Living in the Truth - (November Solitary) 20 mentions

• meditation and vipassana there's this huge emphasis of course on awareness and mindfulness and bringing awareness and
• huge emphasis of course on awareness and mindfulness and bringing awareness and in the course of that everyone notices
• all this begins to uh be revealed in the field of awareness of mindfulness
• are um kind of sense of awareness the mystery of awareness and the vastness of
• kind of sense of awareness the mystery of awareness and the vastness of awareness that which knows a big person
• of awareness and the vastness of awareness that which knows a big person begin to have an almost devotional sense
• a sense of oneness with a sense of the mystery of awareness of that which knows all that will come freedom sensitivity
• sense of oneness a sense of um this vastness of awareness i don't want to throw out too quickly because if
• and hopefully at a certain time being mature is the awareness matures and something moves on
• cultivation of a very sharp very focused kind of microscopic awareness really being able to divide up the moments
• and uh precisely very microscopic awareness following that practice deeply with a
• present another way much more relaxed open awareness spacious awareness allowing everything to be in that space
• kind of become prominent in the experience is a sense of awareness as something vast
• thoughts all experience is born out of that awareness and this here is back into it effortlessly effortlessly
• of experience itself begins to feel the same as the texture of awareness that all things are awareness all things are
• same as the texture of awareness that all things are awareness all things are the play of awareness coming out of that
• all things are awareness all things are the play of awareness coming out of that where it's disappearing back if i says
• that's the ultimate nature of things that's the ultimate nature of awareness the ultimate nature of things
• and more the self the world the mind awareness the present moment things we take so much for
• actually see there's nowhere to stand you can't stand in awareness you can't stand in the now

The Fourth Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 20 mentions

• body again permeating with a pure bright awareness so that there is nothing of his entire body unpervaded by pure
• his entire body unpervaded by pure bright awareness so
• even so the practitioner sits permeating their body with a pure bright awareness there is nothing of their entire body
• there is nothing of their entire body unpervaded by pure bright awareness so that's his description of the fourth
• of the felt center of the chitta the felt center of awareness can drop and it might have dropped already in in
• so if i'm sitting on a chair somewhere under here is the center of my awareness can feel like
• um the state of the vastness of awareness was that yesterday we've talked about that though so when the
• to the space that vast space of awareness and after a time it might seem like the the bird that was just singing
• it's just coming out of that silent awareness and then the sound just disappears back into it and one has that
• forever lasting space of peaceful transcendent peaceful awareness and things just arise out of that source
• space contain and let all these phenomena belong to the awareness and you can i don't know if you can hear
• um this mystical divinity mystical silence the mystical nature of awareness but it's not in in in in the
• follow this example of the vastness awareness everything can begin at some point to have all these phenomena all
• divine um lasting forever awareness um
• opposites anymore it's all in this case divine awareness the awareness of god whatever you want to call it does it
• presence pure awareness pure consciousness there's a sense of purity there that's a
• notice it's still a state of equanimity of mindfulness of clear awareness and all the rest of it a focus of samadhi
• um uh he that the monk with a chitta with a mind heart with an awareness thus meaning from the jhanas
• do with the mind or direct your awareness to um and one of them is vipassana practice
• um but kind of not very warm uh awareness and consciousness i would like to say make the third and fourth journey

Beauty and the Buddha - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 20 mentions

• beautiful it's just again really a property of the mind or awareness in in certain states some people even say it's
• for our so to speak our sensitivity our subtlety of awareness or attention with respect to that object that is beautiful
• there is a more there in this awareness of the sublime there is a kind of beyond there in the
• there is a kind of beyond there in the awareness of the slaves of the sublime that's part of the whole aesthetic
• and experiences and perceives or conceives this knowing this awareness of this thing right now in this moment this
• object or this vader or this sensation all this knowing the awareness itself as anata not self and that loosening of the
• am knowing i am the one who is aware or whatever this is my awareness or this is my hand or whatever i'm looking at or
• abides rests in a kind of openness of awareness this will as it progresses and deepens that practice will lead to a
• experience has one taste probably the taste of awareness or love and it just has one taste
• insubstantial it might be infinite spatially because the awareness opens up as if the awareness is vast
• spatially because the awareness opens up as if the awareness is vast but in terms of dimensions it just
• reaches that one dimension this one taste of everything is awareness or everything's love or whatever it is but
• the buddha mind the cosmic buddha awareness if you like but even it's not even just an awareness it's a non-dual
• awareness if you like but even it's not even just an awareness it's a non-dual awareness it is empty in itself but it's
• even just an awareness it's a non-dual awareness it is empty in itself but it's inseparable from what it knows and what
• um the knowing and what is experienced so the awareness and the world it's if you like the whole
• um noses that's inseparable subject and object awareness and one of the whole cosmic inter-subjective field that knows
• the emptiness of things is empty itself and includes both awareness and world subject and object or being empty
• and then we we also see that this mind or this awareness too is not self it's anata we can play with that view and see
• what happens and we recognize eventually that this mind this awareness that fabricates it too is empty in itself

Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (2) - (Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma) 20 mentions

• whole body the whole body as a field of awareness a field of bodily texture vibration energy
• basically stomping with as much energy and awareness and intention and power and force in in the lower half of the
• then energetically or perhaps imaginably or the movement leads and the awareness notices does that make sense
• between stomps and there's the energy body awareness there's imaginal awareness
• and there's the energy body awareness there's imaginal awareness simple mindfulness
• simple mindfulness emotional awareness just see what you notice
• let the space of this hole that we're in let's bring in allow an awareness of that and how does that influence the
• embodiment so that there is a wider awareness yes the body yes the emotions the energy
• means but just what happens if you include that in the awareness staying facing the wall yeah if you can
• there's the possibility of pitching the sensitivities the noticing the awareness at different levels no right or wrong
• but it might open up uh it could be emotional awarenesses could also be imaginal awarenesses
• emotional awarenesses could also be imaginal awarenesses this body with these gestures this
• again when you feel ready to add to it the dimension of the awareness of this space
• most helpful pitch of the of the awareness yeah if it's just okay so there's some sensations in my throat
• smallness of the movement see how delicate the awareness can be what you might notice in the sensations
• [music] whole body awareness but almost centered at the hips at the pelvis pelvic region
• lose the kind of uh the holding of that awareness as we put the rim back together
• your meditation posture and the meditative awareness with the energy body with the poise of
• so these are the instructions with all the energy body awareness and the sensitivity and in your posture
• enact something poor body awareness sometimes the movements that the energy

The Energy Body and the Whole-body breath (Instructions and Guided Meditation) - (Practising the... 19 mentions

• so we will get to if if you don't like this business about whole body awareness and energy body don't worry we'll get to
• so when i say attention to your whole body awareness will hold you that's what i mean okay
• or tending more and more towards homogeneity but the awareness too is homogeneous meaning it's not i don't i
• have less and less of a feeling of my awareness being up here kind of peering down at my body experience down there
• somewhere it's more like the awareness in habits equally homogeneously the whole space
• homogenized and we could make that a definition of energy body awareness but let's just make it this is this is the
• and then when you're ready opening up the awareness to embrace to include
• how does it feel so the awareness will keep shrinking it will shrink a thousand times
• than the physical body space and fill that with a live awareness presence
• and then keeping that whole body awareness just noticing the breath as it
• different points so the whole body awareness noticing the effect of the breath
• so in the whole space attuned alive filled with awareness and longest breath just
• okay so keeping this longest breath keeping this whole body awareness is it possible to add
• is it possible to add an awareness a sensitivity to notice can you notice is it possible that with
• energy open the body and the attention the awareness open to that whole space and how it feels
• said what we want is a general kind of whole body awareness a general sort of aware of this remember what whole body
• sense within that grade but at least to start the whole body awareness um
• what i'm talking about is the kind of awareness as i'm moving through the day as i'm in the lunch queue as i'm doing
• i'm doing that kind of relationship that kind of state of energy body awareness like what kind of

Into the Depths of Silence - (IMS Forest Refuge) 19 mentions

• and and all that we can also in a way turn the awareness to the silence and start listening to silence as as a very
• mindfulness of the body be anchored in the body and then open the awareness to listening to the totality of listening
• again that what stands out is a sense of awareness okay so in a way everything that i'm saying about silence from now
• can be equally substituted by the word sense of space or sense of awareness okay did that make sense
• but either way whether it's silence or space or awareness one guess begins to get this sense that
• one guess begins to get this sense that silent space awareness is embracing and accommodating everything
• is kind of held within that space within that silence within that awareness everything that comes up and in a way at
• it belong to the space that it belong to awareness so there's this kind of letting everything belong to that
• fade back into the silence the space the awareness now what very beautiful potential
• the more this sense of silence or space or awareness becomes prominent okay the more i let go of things the
• the same substance as spaciousness or the same substance as awareness so rather than
• there is this and there is silence or awareness or space it's almost like there's a kind of oneness that that can
• come in the silence especially awareness it surrounds and and permeates and in that
• one sees peace everywhere or one sees uh you know awareness everywhere one doesn't want to hurry through those
• the dharma world is to make a thing out of awareness so as i said earlier this silence might take the form of a sense
• silence might take the form of a sense of awareness a sense of spaciousness very very common
• nowadays for people to make a thing out of awareness but actually that sense of awareness is still in the realm of
• of awareness but actually that sense of awareness is still in the realm of perception and it needs to be gone
• relationship to them just infatuated with objects or even the awareness in which objects happen