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The Imaginal-Energy Body (Q & A) - (Roots into the Ground of Soul) 17 mentions

• body rob's body and it's just part of my awareness it has a certain form in the usual consciousness it has a form of two
• whatever there's a certain expansion of the range of awareness as you practice as you open that up the
• really an attitude more than an experience it's a poise of the awareness that allows an openness
• could talk about this energy body is really energy body awareness or it's a kind of poise of the attention a kind of
• certain experience no really it's more in a kind of awareness you understand so that's another reason
• know the body is here it's almost like there's two awarenesses of the body at one time i can feel the body sitting the
• image or other and i'm flying over there and i have this double awareness at the same time assembly because it's really
• connotations it's kind of double awareness yeah so that that would be uh an example
• scientifically and if you can train your awareness two people will read someone's aura the same way and come you know it's
• whatever it is and i'm still aware of the energy body if i make my awareness big so there's a difference between the
• big so there's a difference between the awareness stretching if i if i open up the awareness to include let's say just
• awareness stretching if i if i open up the awareness to include let's say just this much space sort of a bit bigger
• may be completely conventional at that time then my energy body awareness is is open that's all i have to do so it's not
• and just be there with this kind of open uh open delica awareness you understand um
• yeah so so a lot of this is just about psychological awareness and and relational
• relational um skills and awareness okay it's 5 30.
• about the specifics there but um expanding the awareness giving it more more space it's like if if the

Opening Talk for Work Retreat - Working and Awakening - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 16 mentions

• be just as much awareness and investigation during the work
• of them was mindfulness awareness presence i'm going to be talking a lot about that on
• this retreat so a cultivating of awareness or mindfulness as the real heart of this practice really really
• central in this practice so the aspiration to live with awareness part of that partly it's through
• part of that partly it's through awareness that understanding comes it can't come through any other way except
• can't come through any other way except awareness and partly it's this movement to want to touch life
• and so a lot of talk on this retreat about awareness and and the practices to to foster awareness to nourish awareness
• about awareness and and the practices to to foster awareness to nourish awareness you know it's sensitive awareness and
• to foster awareness to nourish awareness you know it's sensitive awareness and everything
• and comes out of that so awareness certainly of course and that's probably
• this process is is part of the practice huge awareness huge blessing in our life just to begin to see how our intentions
• part of meditation that we keep an awareness of the mind state of the state of the heart
• the place of knowing we're taking the seat of awareness and from that place we are
• the intentionality that i talked about and the awareness and the taking care of the heart there are three three factors
• environment and for the purpose of awareness for the purpose of clarity for the purpose of deepening our sensitivity
• of our sensitivity every ounce of our clarity and our awareness and anything that obscures that that clouds that that

Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 1) - (Vajra Music) 16 mentions

• understand the massive awareness elsewhere which i mean unlikely of course but
• this kind of open self or there's just an open sense of awareness and i'll put this in strong inverted commas
• so what is it we're not just talking about the space of awareness we're not just talking about expanding the space
• just talking about expanding the space of awareness okay that's a different practice we're talking about energy body
• body uh sensitivity here of course the awareness must extend if we're going to do this exercise from for example the
• so actually i first have to have that much expansion of the awareness but that's we're saying more than that then
• and neck but the same thing the same awareness the same sensitivity the same expansion the same
• still got there that whole energy body awareness but where in the body is the center of
• and you've got the whole energy body awareness and then you notice where the center is that actually can can you is
• okay fourth part of the exercise um we've got this awareness of the energy body as usual and we've got the
• energy body as usual and we've got the awareness of the sound of course and to add to it similar to the first
• but what is it to have the energy body awareness to have the awareness of the sound to be really in that open to that
• and sensitive to that and then also open the awareness to the sense of the space around the center of the medium if you
• fourth part and with the energy body and the awareness and the sound awareness the awareness the energy body and the
• the awareness and the sound awareness the awareness the energy body and the awareness of sound can we also
• the awareness the energy body and the awareness of sound can we also um

Contemplating the Three Characteristics (Part 2) - Anatta (Not Self) - (November Solitary) 16 mentions

• of a steady a steady sense of global awareness it's just there's just awareness as the body and there's the
• awareness it's just there's just awareness as the body and there's the things appearing and disappearing in
• things appearing and disappearing in that in that sense of awareness so it's not it's not uh
• quietly reflect oneself maybe in the like in the back of the awareness there's a little
• actually divide into let's say objects of awareness things that we are aware of
• so there's objects that we can be aware of and then there's awareness there's objects and there's awareness
• of and then there's awareness there's objects and there's awareness we can either just through the
• certainly the identification remains it remains identified with awareness where identified with awareness so i'm
• it remains identified with awareness where identified with awareness so i'm not the object but i am the watcher i am
• the witness i am consciousness i am awareness sometimes this is we're very we know
• the world go by and everything is not me except this awareness we don't even know that we're identified with that
• that we're identified with that awareness it's a much more subtle level of
• but again we can actually just reflect awareness is just happening there's just awareness there's just awareness in the
• awareness is just happening there's just awareness there's just awareness in the universe
• object and it's not identified with awareness it's not clinging anywhere that that is
• itself is actually let go of that subtle identification with awareness it's very very powerful

Approaching the Dharma: Part Two - Liberating Ways of Looking - (November Solitary) 16 mentions

• that make the difference with the awareness that makes a difference
• someone was asking too about the nature of awareness and it could be again just from simple
• as it depends as things settle that the sense of awareness starts to become more prominent we don't usually notice it and
• it can actually start using that sense of awareness that we're usually not aware of
• the release of suffering in the moment when the awareness becomes more prominent the phenomena within the
• prominent the phenomena within the awareness seem less important they kind of belong to the awareness coming and
• awareness seem less important they kind of belong to the awareness coming and going and the awareness just holds them
• of belong to the awareness coming and going and the awareness just holds them beautiful
• if we take the uh this letting everything belong to awareness it's a way of looking letting everything belong
• way of looking letting everything belong to awareness and and just repeating that very lovely
• perception that the phenomena arising in this space of awareness it's not just that they belong to the awareness there
• this space of awareness it's not just that they belong to the awareness there actually seem to be the same
• actually seem to be the same in inverted comma substance as awareness no difference no difference the same
• that thing exists this is a real awareness knowing that all this exists how how are we to go if
• as the buddha or if i think about it just in terms of awareness pure awareness
• just in terms of awareness pure awareness that's fabricated too in the process

Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 15 mentions

• less to uh be able to keep the awareness open to the object at the same time or vice
• so there's uh playing with this adjustments awareness opening up to include that to tune to this is crucial
• the energy body now you should be familiar with this opening the awareness letting the energy the currents move how
• they want to move within the energy body just opening the awareness as well giving the whole sense of the energy
• giving the whole sense of the energy body more space because the awareness is bigger the sense the energy body will
• more capacity in the space just by opening the awareness and the energy body opens and allowing it even helping
• this before on other retreats but there's a second way the awareness can open all the attention can open to
• wasn't going to be much potency until she opened up that awareness to re-include and balance it if you like
• re-include and balance it if you like with the with the awareness of the the imaginal other and the beauty there and
• where something's gotten too intense because it's not balanced the awareness is not spread in the in the directions
• can move say a lean more towards the object or more back towards an awareness of the self the image of the self or
• i actually included in the definition of soulmaking and awareness that of seeing images image
• then just decided to land on the side of including that awareness of this is image seeing images image this awareness
• including that awareness of this is image seeing images image this awareness of a kind of middle way between real and
• of that relationship with means exactly what kinds of awareness and sensitivity and attunement i'm bringing to the

The Movement of Devotion (Part 2) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 15 mentions

• aware of the energy body or dwelling in the awareness of the energy body in that fullness
• subtleizing and sensitizing of the awareness and the attention to try and pay attention to
• sensitizing and subtling actually energizes the awareness it gives more i'm injecting more energy
• it gives more i'm injecting more energy into the awareness and when the awareness has more energy
• into the awareness and when the awareness has more energy it can have it if it has more energy
• by sensitizing and subtilizing the awareness or um is one of the ways of giving the energy more uh the awareness
• awareness or um is one of the ways of giving the energy more uh the awareness more energy and when the energy has
• more energy and when the energy has sorry when the awareness has more energy than the emotion
• then the emotion starts to be much much more handleable it's like the awareness can get around it accommodate it it
• at any rate it becomes less problematic because the energy of the awareness is bigger than the energy of the emotion
• rather than the other way around when the awareness the emotion is bigger than the awareness
• the awareness the emotion is bigger than the awareness when the energy of the emotion is bigger
• when the energy of the emotion is bigger than the energy of the awareness we're actually drowning in the emotion
• kinds of things what matters is the awareness and the being in touch with with the space of
• and down um with the energy body awareness or you can explore some of this movement either

True to Your Deepest Desires (Talk and Short Guided Meditation) - (Practising the Jhānas) 15 mentions

• um born of samadhi a unification of awareness free from directed thought and
• uh what's this unification of awareness uh the party is
• hindrances and have this background awareness and i um i play with this idea of more intense
• people talk about non-conceptual awareness and the mind was completely non-conceptual etc
• say this cosmic consciousness this infinite awareness this vast awareness being the ultimate reality the eternal
• than a concern i would say that kind of view of a vast awareness being ultimate real ultimately real
• cosmic consciousness awareness being the nature of things that awareness being eternal and
• awareness being the nature of things that awareness being eternal and etc unruffled that being the nature of
• etc unruffled that being the nature of awareness all that and that's much more likely to arise from sort of standard
• vast eternal seeming awareness cosmic consciousness whatever it is how
• person can go in and out of the vastness of awareness or the cosmic consciousness or whatever many times and think yeah my
• limited and limiting view of emptiness of the nature of awareness so if i think that's the ultimate nature
• so if i think that's the ultimate nature of awareness it's not ultimate it's a it's a
• that some version of that vast awareness and that's ultimate etc i lost count easily
• is very free and easy because it's very like well there's a way awareness is ultimately there i don't have to do

Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 15 mentions

• practice learn to incline incline the awareness towards what's enjoyable in there
• unpleasant thoughts i can be with this awareness can hold it was almost always lacking with fear is
• and just holding in the background of awareness just a light reflection on the fact of their mortality
• a nature that they are vulnerable to holding that in the awareness as one's very lightly as one's doing the matter
• you're doing the meta and you can just open the awareness up a little bit more to this impermanence these are just
• insight meditation or even broadening my awareness in the meta practice i'm doing the metta practice but
• i develop the sensitivity that as i keep the the sensitivity and the awareness there
• and mind states and emotions and and the consciousness itself the awareness itself
• backdrop for for the metta practice so you open the awareness up and just regard things as just happening is not
• talking about is very important putting the awareness just gently keep putting it other places
• do that with that sensitivity the more that energy will the more the awareness kind of rests there it takes takes its
• and it's the attention and the enjoyment which it allows it to the awareness to kind of rest there and and and get into
• and mindfulness practice it carries with it an assumption of naked awareness or bare attention it's actually a word that
• be mindful be very simple in the awareness and get underneath all those views and opinions and likes and
• experience with as naked and awareness as possible that's what we tend to call part of what

Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Four) - (The Boundless... 15 mentions

• and exploring that and then we expanded the awareness just a little bit to kind of uh suffuse if
• energy body whatever language one wants to use but the awareness there is more spread to inhabit the whole field the
• particularly assumptions uh in in the field of our awareness and then we played a little little games with okay
• foreign allowing the awareness to expand out from this
• when you're ready is it possible for the awareness to open even further opening out expanding
• totality of sounds so the awareness is spacious receiving
• here than there the awareness is opening out opening out
• a vast sphere a space of awareness not so much this and then that but the
• let it all belong there awareness just receiving letting be
• out for the awareness the way sounds come and go in silence
• thing can be quite common when we open out the awareness like that did anyone else experience any fear with it
• in a way a choice a choice of what happens with the awareness so i'm not just uh reacting in a kind of knee-jerk
• important one of the things that happens when you open up the awareness it's almost as if the experience in the
• almost as if the experience in the awareness say a constriction or a pain somewhere or a thought is is kind of
• so the awareness is opening to include each other as well nature space