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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

Healing the Imagination (Q & A) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 14 mentions

• really emphasize um the awareness of practicing with uh what we've been calling the energy body
• it grows the sensitivity to that or that that kind of awareness grows the more we practice feeling the body and sensing
• certain energy centers or points within that space but really the awareness of the tuning to the sensitivity and
• uh thirdly the the sensitivity and awareness to the energy body the tuning to that actually proves to be a really
• lose touch with the energy body awareness um but this
• body is as much or maybe even more about an awareness a sensibility a subtlety of attention
• attention a sensibility a subtlety of awareness to that space of the body rather than something about the body per
• through the spell the magic spell um that i'm playing with in my awareness and through that i sing the body
• um experience if you like of an energy body this this kind of awareness um we could say is something we create
• at it this way when there's this quality with the awareness as opposed to that quality it changes actually the
• but can we walk so to speak in the energy body or in that awareness i'm walking in in this bubble or region or
• practice subtlety subtlety of awareness and so um
• um an an increase of subtlety of the awareness and the attention deepening meditation involves jet
• increase a greater degree of subtlety awareness of attention so subtlety in this way of thinking

Counting Within the Breath (Guided Meditation) - (Practising the Jhānas) 14 mentions

• first but i want to keep want you to keep that whole body awareness and keep opening up keep returning to it as many
• comfortable open up that whole aware of awareness to the whole space of the body open up that awareness keep opening it
• awareness to the whole space of the body open up that awareness keep opening it and take whatever time it takes to gauge
• speed of counting if you like whole body awareness long
• make those numbers brighter make them louder keep opening up the awareness whole space larger than the body
• again and again and again fill it with awareness fill it with a live presence inhabit the whole of that space
• quite slow whole body awareness whole space filled with presence
• just play a whole body awareness when you're ready coming back to the the
• if you can keep this whole body awareness and opening your eyes when you're ready
• you can move around and keep the whole body awareness okay um now one way or another we're gonna
• um now one way or another we're gonna whole body awareness is going to be part of this practice it might be very
• get to janna it's all about whole body awareness anyway but moving slowly around enables you to
• kind of keep that basic whole body awareness that basic mindfulness yeah too slow and you get into the details
• it's part of the whole kind of um energetic awareness we want to we want to gradually cultivate this bumble of

Working with the Hindrances - (Samatha Meditation) 14 mentions

• that very aspiration and movement will tend to highlight in the awareness none comes
• with all the hindrances all of them this awareness i keep encouraging to keep wide and large all
• encouraging to keep wide and large all of the hindrances the awareness shrinks there's a there's a contracting of the
• there's a there's a contracting of the awareness contracting of the space and the awareness
• awareness contracting of the space and the awareness so when there's a hindrance around uh
• re-establishing the size of the awareness make it large again because the
• make it large again because the hindrance tends to contract awareness large awareness also finding a way again
• hindrance tends to contract awareness large awareness also finding a way again the basic practice finding a way of
• so large awareness working with the breath to make it as
• can be again helpful to make the awareness more spacious as i said before the long breath this is partly why
• posture imagining white light sense of spacious awareness in the body the long breath
• just noticing a sense of space can be enough to brighten the awareness brighten the mind
• accommodate that restlessness in a more spacious awareness if it's really strong again just relaxing can really be
• brought lower in the body so kind of stationing the awareness perhaps in the in the lower abdomen the higher you know

Guided Meditation on the Three Characteristics - (Meditation on Emptiness) 14 mentions

• gathering collecting the awareness in whatever way feels helpful to you whether that's
• using the breath or the meta or more open awareness just nourishing some
• calm unification of the awareness for a few minutes
• and bringing the awareness bringing the mindfulness the focus of attention into
• and then bringing the awareness up the mindfulness up into the face
• foreign is it possible to open up the awareness to the whole body
• mutating and then with the awareness staying at least somewhat connected to the bodily
• sense the body sensations is it possible to open out the awareness to listening to sound
• and again closing the eyes getting a sense how the awareness can focus in at one point and notice change
• singing and how the awareness can also be spacious
• just letting all that be there in the spaciousness of awareness if there's anything
• in the body or in the sense of the space of awareness contracting feeling that and relaxing it
• themselves can get a sense that the awareness can focus in one small area if it wants to
• just happening just arising in awareness disappearing

From Insight to Love - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 14 mentions

• kind of tip the mind over a little bit tip the awareness over a little bit to go into uh the loveliness just incline
• physical sensations of fear so that consciousness awareness feels like it's actually more spacious than
• the fear the fear of sensations can be there in a spacious awareness and they just allowed they're just allowed
• it's just an unpleasant sensations awareness i can accommodate this i can accommodate this and it's possible for
• is it possible to be doing the meta practice and have this awareness of death and vastness as a backdrop
• and just a little bit more space to the awareness including the change that's going on
• can actually feel that if you sometimes just to put the awareness in the center of the the chest area just very lightly
• doing the metta practice with actually a slightly larger sense of awareness that's aware of whether there's clinging
• subtle ways you can pick up on that in the in the slightly broader awareness as one's doing the matter and just relax it
• not mine including the awareness because we also will then have an identification with
• will then have an identification with awareness which is a more subtle identification
• in working with this characteristic of dukka directly there is an awareness of clinging in in in the sense of what's
• go on in this way in the mind the awareness just deepens and deepens and deepens that on its own is absolutely
• there and be in the love with slightly more spacious awareness and then you'll notice more clinging perhaps and you can

Creative Samadhi - (November Solitary) 14 mentions

• including the whole body in the awareness so we can talk about foreground and background
• as a foreground but it can have the awareness of the whole room etc as a background so even if you're
• really helpful to have a background awareness of the whole body for many different reasons it stops it
• really helpful is actually making the whole body primary the awareness of the whole body making it primary right from
• whole body not just as background awareness but primary right from the beginning the thing that i'm paying
• perhaps out the legs from the belly can you open the awareness so that it's stretched even a little bit
• we're paying attention to now is a field of there's a field of awareness and you're stretching that
• you're stretching that opening that awareness stretching it and if i say can you
• the texture the vibration open it open it fill it with awareness fill it with presence
• fill it with presence so this awareness will keep shrinking keep stretching it out stretch it out so
• that is then filled with bright awareness sensitivity so the secret is in the stretching
• and in the aliveness the brightness of the awareness can you feel as a kind of energy to the
• bigger than the full body and fill it again with bright awareness really inhabiting being present in the whole
• happen too so one very popular one is actually with a very open awareness so just now we did kind of this big a

The Art of Perception - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 14 mentions

• really emphasize um the awareness of practicing with uh what we've been calling the energy body
• it grows the sensitivity to that or that that kind of awareness grows the more we practice feeling the body and sensing
• certain energy centers or points within that space but really the awareness of the tuning to the sensitivity and
• uh thirdly the the sensitivity and awareness to the energy body the tuning to that actually proves to be a really
• lose touch with the energy body awareness um but this
• body is as much or maybe even more about an awareness a sensibility a subtlety of attention
• attention a sensibility a subtlety of awareness to that space of the body rather than something about the body per
• through the spell the magic spell um that i'm playing with in my awareness and through that i sing the body
• um experience if you like of an energy body this this kind of awareness um we could say is something we create
• at it this way when there's this quality with the awareness as opposed to that quality it changes actually the
• but can we walk so to speak in the energy body or in that awareness i'm walking in in this bubble or region or
• practice subtlety subtlety of awareness and so um
• um an an increase of subtlety of the awareness and the attention deepening meditation involves jet
• increase a greater degree of subtlety awareness of attention so subtlety in this way of thinking

Guided Meditation - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 14 mentions

• at once like open up a space of awareness that encompasses fills the whole body
• almost as if there is a balloon or a bubble of awareness that is expanding encompassing
• filling that space with presence bright luminous awareness feeling it with sensitivity
• foreign so it's a global awareness of the whole space
• of vibration or keeping that more spacious awareness you can also
• in and out breath and keeping this whole body awareness healing how that breath
• staying with this open full body awareness opening opening
• so keeping this more global open space of awareness encompassing the whole body maybe even a
• and filling out this space again with awareness with present a lie sensitive
• booing the body with presence with awareness is sensitivity and gently
• whole body and then opening the awareness to the body
• foreign some people in this whole body awareness feel as if almost there are currents of
• now keeping this more open more full awareness of the whole space of the body balloon or bubble keeping that expanded
• the best right now maintaining this whole body awareness but tending to the body with the breath

Samadhi - (November Solitary) 14 mentions

• samadhi the mind feels open the awareness is open and our relationship with things is
• of very concentrated sense very microscopic kind of awareness which is also i mean it can be useful as i said
• while or even who's just committed in their life to living with awareness living with honesty living with kindness
• try and do anything with that and just go to a sense of open awareness or just be with what is that's what i'll do
• in the moment in the sort of background of the awareness and general awareness what is my emotional relationship
• balanced am i open am i soft am i uh you know this uh awareness what is the emotional relationship with what's going
• in the bigger space of the body awareness it can feel the uh tightness when it comes out we actually feel it in
• into the musculature we can actually feel it with this larger awareness and just but just relax it just keep
• still this sense of the whole body and the background awareness the whole body is included including the legs including
• receiving the breath receiving it it's a more receptive mode so awareness is in a sense sitting back just to receive your
• much more spacious sense just awareness is just receiving what's arising
• actually no states there are no things there there's no even awareness it goes it goes much deeper it's rare that that
• we're in new territory the mind the awareness is a new territory unknown waters
• it possible to just gently incline the awareness towards the pleasantness rather than the fear so not pushing away