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The Wisdom of Non-Duality - (November Solitary) 19 mentions

• might do that but actually already here is awareness there's awareness right here am i
• is awareness there's awareness right here am i noticing that what is it to let go
• quality that whatever i do awareness is here it's a beauty in that and an opening in
• into a non a completely non-dual awareness or i was in a mode where i was beyond
• when the self goes something other and vast a sense of vast awareness a sense of the great silence
• we're in that and all experience is in that in that vast awareness in that great silence etc and because all
• so it's not only that this great silence or great awareness contains everything it's also that the fabric of things is
• what seems solid is actually silence what seems solid is actually awareness what seems solid is actually love
• phenomena means everything so even includes awareness even includes now the present and sometimes you get
• always now so what's the problem gotta say the vast awareness that still tend to give that a kind of essence and
• it's not is not awareness space
• beginning to question the reality of the vast awareness that does it have an essence does it have a reality and using
• essence does it have a reality and using that beautiful vast awareness or peace or whatever it is as a stepping stone
• and seeing through that seeing that awareness and mind or whatever we call it also neither exists nor not exists
• into question awareness space time etc and it's gone to a place because i've
• or a sense of it's always now or there's always awareness or the vast awareness or something like that all of
• or there's always awareness or the vast awareness or something like that all of which is great
• cosmic mystical vast universal self selfish awareness of believe in a present moment of believe in space and
• and it could be for instance with a sense of vast awareness just or vast silence or whatever

Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 19 mentions

• sense of subject object space time awareness etc beyond all phenomena
• through quieter sort of more pristine awareness of that and then through a whole series of fading
• um to a stage of anata practice where one's regarding awareness itself the consciousness itself as anata does not
• aware that it meant there's no doing of awareness so for them what the anatar of awareness what was
• awareness so for them what the anatar of awareness what was the only thing that was in their
• anata way of looking when they turned on awareness was that there's no doing of awareness which actually means there's
• awareness was that there's no doing of awareness which actually means there's no agency it means
• the effort and the doing that go with awareness are not me not mine so that's one thing
• here with diana when he was trying to do the animators awareness it seemed to be quite limited so we were
• in in his in his way of looking when when he looked at awareness and said anata or and looked at it with the view
• so it's not that there's no doing awareness there's no agency that was one thing but he was also missing two other
• factors one is that there's no possession of awareness it's not mine so there's no entity of self that owns
• so there's no entity of self that owns this awareness of which the awareness makes up a part
• this awareness of which the awareness makes up a part of this self this entity
• and there is no also thirdly there's no identification with awareness the awareness the consciousness is not me
• identification with awareness the awareness the consciousness is not me so we have no no possession no
• just um attending to the sense of awareness and looking at it as anata
• empty empty uh the even there with the anatav awareness what's involved in the subject is actually fairly complex and
• hear these teachings about emptiness or the nature of awareness or that kind of thing

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

The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) - (Practising the Jhānas) 18 mentions

• um this vast primordial impersonal awareness is is regarded as what's real and the whole
• using unfabricated synonymous with awareness often vastness of awareness and claiming
• awareness often vastness of awareness and claiming that is the unfabricated that is the
• perception attention contact feeling and body awareness all are destroyed with the cessation of consciousness i.e
• unfabricated as in a kind of subjective terms as a kind of awareness beyond any kind of sense of awareness that we might
• terms as a kind of awareness beyond any kind of sense of awareness that we might have because awareness even if it's
• kind of sense of awareness that we might have because awareness even if it's remember the sixth genres awareness
• have because awareness even if it's remember the sixth genres awareness aware of itself
• here it's not even that it's not awareness aware of it's not awareness aware of itself it's not
• it's not awareness aware of it's not awareness aware of itself it's not awareness aware of nothingness it's not
• awareness aware of itself it's not awareness aware of nothingness it's not neither perception or not so it's gone
• uh independent attacks released with an awareness rid of barriers he understands there is a further escape there's a
• no personality just a congestant awareness just subject in the in the barest most
• no present moment no awareness in the usual sense of what we what we mean by awareness or in any
• no awareness in the usual sense of what we what we mean by awareness or in any big vastness of awareness or something
• we what we mean by awareness or in any big vastness of awareness or something like that
• that partial understanding it's the mind awareness consciousness and all the elements of the mind that make up the
• of wheat leaning on each other the whole thing mind and world awareness the elements of the mind they will prop

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 18 mentions

• bring bring that alive a bit more with a bit more awareness sometimes it's a matter of doing something deliberate
• the that not just attitude but that awareness um that acknowledgment recognition that
• not the the sensing with soul for us without the awareness of the energy body so that's characteristic of the magic
• constitution is awareness of the energy body a sensitivity to the what's happening in
• what this means for practice again is that bringing awareness to the energy body filling that energy body with
• body filling that energy body with awareness and sensitivity and the delicacy involved in that i'm tuning to
• delicacy involved in that i'm tuning to it including that in our awareness as we pay attention to either so-called
• in the in the material world um including the energy body awareness can uh because it's a node and less can
• lattice so that bringing bringing the including the energy body awareness just just kind of noticing what's going on
• there and just bringing concerning the dial up on the awareness of the energy body and the sensitivity there
• sometimes what happens is we bring the awareness of the energy body craving um
• so in other words when the energy body awareness is included and comes alive then either suddenly or gradually
• it's really really worth including this awareness and starting to experiment with it and uh kind of noticing the
• them in relation to each other it kind of stimulates an awareness that can then unblock because we're not trapped in
• okay we're going back to our main point the energy body awareness is um one node in this
• yeah uh and again just body awareness someone may never have done anybody where i
• and again like i said john's body awareness energy body might be new and it's like wow and that that itself uh
• so but these elements and playfulness heartfulness energy body awareness in themselves

PS - Playing in the In-Betweens - (Practising the Jhānas) 18 mentions

• um this vast primordial impersonal awareness is is regarded as what's real and the whole
• using unfabricated synonymous with awareness often vastness of awareness and claiming
• awareness often vastness of awareness and claiming that is the unfabricated that is the
• perception attention contact feeling and body awareness all are destroyed with the cessation of consciousness i.e
• unfabricated as in a kind of subjective terms as a kind of awareness beyond any kind of sense of awareness that we might
• terms as a kind of awareness beyond any kind of sense of awareness that we might have because awareness even if it's
• kind of sense of awareness that we might have because awareness even if it's remember the sixth genres awareness
• have because awareness even if it's remember the sixth genres awareness aware of itself
• here it's not even that it's not awareness aware of it's not awareness aware of itself it's not
• it's not awareness aware of it's not awareness aware of itself it's not awareness aware of nothingness it's not
• awareness aware of itself it's not awareness aware of nothingness it's not neither perception or not so it's gone
• uh independent attacks released with an awareness rid of barriers he understands there is a further escape there's a
• no personality just a congestant awareness just subject in the in the barest most
• no present moment no awareness in the usual sense of what we what we mean by awareness or in any
• no awareness in the usual sense of what we what we mean by awareness or in any big vastness of awareness or something
• we what we mean by awareness or in any big vastness of awareness or something like that
• that partial understanding it's the mind awareness consciousness and all the elements of the mind that make up the
• of wheat leaning on each other the whole thing mind and world awareness the elements of the mind they will prop

Sila and Soul (Part 3) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 17 mentions

• uh the awareness in philosophy that in moral philosophy that well look ethics what's
• itself though usually the secondary awareness of awareness for itself it's awareness
• though usually the secondary awareness of awareness for itself it's awareness of itself it's not usually amplified to
• we've put out there involve amplifying that getting a sense of the awareness of awareness it just goes naturally with
• that getting a sense of the awareness of awareness it just goes naturally with any awareness i'm aware of the clock i'm
• awareness it just goes naturally with any awareness i'm aware of the clock i'm aware of speaking i'm aware of the words
• bound up it's part of what makes up awareness and that sense of that can be amplified
• um so it can be amplified with practice um with regard to awareness but i wonder if awareness of virtues and an
• um with regard to awareness but i wonder if awareness of virtues and an aspiration a passion a love for growing
• people talk about the self-reflexive nature of awareness which just means that awareness is aware of itself while
• nature of awareness which just means that awareness is aware of itself while it is primarily aware of other objects
• it is primarily aware of other objects but that self-reflexive awareness that's in intrinsically wrapped up and part of
• in intrinsically wrapped up and part of awareness can be amplified as i say there's a self-reflexive intention in
• not just to the self-reflective nature of awareness but also to the autoeroticism in eros
• self-reflexive intention with awareness with eros and with ethical action
• um the more normal primary intentions of virtuous behavior or awareness directed towards something or other or eros
• with them something's a bit off balance if i'm more aware of the awareness generally speaking and not of the object

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Scripture of Body and... 17 mentions

• we've pinpointed one of those aspects being the whole energy body awareness that kind of poise and sensitivity and
• gift and the opening of what it brings so that again with the awareness of the whole energy body it's it's a support
• as we're starting just with energy body awareness which is just kind of a kind of way of paying attention to our body
• alongside the the sort of energy body awareness we can start with a deliberate imagining your body even if it doesn't
• um it might become imaginal when we have the energy body awareness and we just start to get into that image
• is but it's as if i've got two body awarenesses at once or flying or whatever it is of dancing
• about um any kind of body awareness any kind of mindfulness of body and
• any kind of mindfulness of body and whether it's energy body awareness as we've been talking about but just
• mindfulness of the body or awareness of the body um
• in that what we're calling mindfulness of the body awareness of the body will be it will have three aspects or
• but there's always with any moment of bodily awareness there's a felt sense kinesthetic sense some kind of image
• there's there's always these three aspects with any bodily awareness but the important point what i want to say
• um but it's a it can be a resource this energy body awareness and energy body practice in other ways
• i'm also very helpful with emotional awareness practices etc um uh in in you know the cultivation of
• and we get the sense through energy body awareness through paying attention in certain ways we
• imaginal partly supported through energy body awareness the idea of body opens up the idea of bodies open up
• possibly gives rise to the soulfulness and the soulmaking with the awareness of the measurement away and all that if

From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 2) - (Eros... 17 mentions

• cosmic consciousness or universal awareness or um
• way of looking that sees all things as not separate from an awareness that is beyond time and beyond space not mine
• but it's all in a way beyond time unlike the other awareness the other onenesses of universal awareness or
• unlike the other awareness the other onenesses of universal awareness or infinite consciousness or universal love
• eros my eros participates in the divinity's eros my awareness participates in uh the the divine
• participates in uh the the divine awareness awareness my mind in the divine mind my soul and
• um the mind or awareness or will the fabricator if you like the mind that
• in you that's buddha nature that mind that awareness is buddha nature doesn't belong to me it's thoroughly
• to see that awareness is an attack it's already quite a deep level of emptiness practice
• going further and deeper that mind and awareness is thoroughly empty too has no inherent existence
• subtle just to bear subtle refine perhaps vast awareness or moment of consciousness as a subject of
• any kind of even very subtle very refined object of that awareness and a present moment
• or if we take the divine buddha nature of god or whatever as an awareness and again an awareness that's not limited to
• of god or whatever as an awareness and again an awareness that's not limited to not knowing itself so it kind of
• not knowing itself so it kind of infinite or unlimited awareness and then that must include because it's not
• actually even to properly talk about awareness i think it would include that
• just in saying that the divine is infinite awareness it implies this not yet this generation

Guided Meditation 1 - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 17 mentions

• now is it possible to open up the awareness rather than funneling the awareness to one point is it possible to
• awareness rather than funneling the awareness to one point is it possible to open up a space of awareness
• awareness to one point is it possible to open up a space of awareness almost like stretching a balloon so that
• almost like stretching a balloon so that that awareness is a little bit bigger than your physical body
• and that whole space is inhabited is filled with bright awareness sensitivity aliveness of presence
• the texture the vibration now the awareness the attention will keep shrinking it will keep shrinking
• present alive mindfulness awareness feeling the energy of the whole space
• so like wind will fill a white sail the awareness is filling this whole space sensing into that whole vibration and
• you need to stretching the awareness foreign
• that when you keep stretching and keep opening the awareness this way you're really opening up the center of the body
• and really opening up the mind the awareness to that space to that energy field
• bright awareness whole space is filled with awareness
• awareness whole space is filled with awareness there
• opening the space again and again filling it with awareness so if you're using those lines perhaps
• in this whole body space field of awareness the energy field if it's helpful to
• vibration texture of that whole space keep opening the awareness opening the body opening the space
• filling it out with awareness sensitivity presence