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Sunday Morning Instructions - (Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland) 12 mentions

• mindfulness rather knows what is in awareness it knows what is going on
• energy acting the awareness as large as the whole body
• so the whole body is actually filled with awareness filled with attentiveness
• in keeping the awareness large is the whole body
• so comfortable keeping the awareness as large as the body
• body the awareness will tend to shrink or tend to grow smaller
• large as the body with wide awareness just feeling into the energizing and
• feeling that throughout the body and within that large awareness maybe maybe we can see how does it feel
• do you feel something there maybe not bring the awareness large and just being sensitive
• discomfort of the breath awareness can just the day that
• very patient with the mind filling the body with awareness turning the whole body
• being in the body but allowing the awareness to open up to sound

Talk Two: Understanding the Heart - (The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)) 12 mentions

• aspect of the path that most people are familiar with awareness being with what is being open and in
• actually touch that and open to it with awareness meet it directly crucial
• unfortunately the not so helpful staff but can i again incline the awareness i'm actually bringing in a sense
• so generosity ethics sealer this kind of awareness of them are movement with the senses just an
• subtle slowly and slowly over time our seeing becomes more subtle our awareness becomes more subtle we see more no
• to it's it's too subtle it's below the level of awareness that's why we need to develop our subtlety of seeing as well
• the whole body again reestablishing that whole body awareness it's also helpful with restlessness is a sense of
• in usually when there's constriction or pain the mind will shrink the awareness shrinks and gets smaller in reaction to
• seeing if again just keep establishing this wide spacious awareness really important the mind gets sucked like a
• just to establish that more spacious awareness sometimes you have a sense of
• this practice so there's a real delicacy of awareness a delicacy to our attention a lightness to our attention and with
• practice but same deal big body awareness sensitive to the whole body just matter instead of breath loving

Visions of the Beyond - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 12 mentions

• um all kinds of universal oneness whether it's a oneness of awareness a kind of cosmic consciousness or infinite
• kind of cosmic consciousness or infinite consciousness or universal awareness or universal love or the universal ocean of
• love permeating and being the fabric of all existence or universal awareness or this transcendent completely
• a transcend how to say this um a non-dual awareness a non-dual wisdom awareness and gnosis
• um a non-dual awareness a non-dual wisdom awareness and gnosis is not separate from appearances that is
• is this wisdom consciousness this wisdom awareness this gnosis of of a buddha of a fully enlightened being which is what
• this empty knowing pervasive universal cosmic awareness of emptiness
• world of divine appearances that appears to that wisdom awareness so there's this union of wisdom and means which
• um wisdom awareness if you like and and world of psyche and
• because only a buddha has that kind of awareness is actually able to fully for example able to fully see the emptiness
• the same time and so they have this full awareness of emptiness and divinity um at the same time only a buddha and no
• with uh pender compassion versus awareness or whatever there's there's a few different

A Hidden Treasure: The Relationship with the Hindrances - (Practising the Jhānas) 12 mentions

• what i want to introduce as is is doing meta with the energy body awareness which means that i might have phrases i
• walking up and down in that kind of awareness with all the matter and whatever however i'm doing the meta yeah
• sleepiness etc lack of energy um expanding the awareness to the whole body
• it's impossible to if if you're really expanding the awareness and really filling it with the tension is actually
• movement so expanding the awareness of the whole body and really feeling it again and
• foggy you can also open up the awareness very very wide so much wider than the energy
• in a way and so opening up that awareness open your eyes open up the awareness to have a sense of the whole
• awareness open your eyes open up the awareness to have a sense of the whole room you're kind of moving the mind
• on our energy of course uh again expanding the awareness to the whole body so it's useful for opposite
• can be really helpful again is a really large awareness as large as you can just open it out but within that you have a
• know that sort of thing in this big awareness and your job is completely allowing them
• know just inward paying too much awareness of different things there's there's a whole list there

The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 12 mentions

• so this vajrayana ultimate the buddha nature is a primordial wisdom awareness this buddha nature it is empty but it's
• the way a buddha sees this is the way this is the wisdom awareness of a buddha but it's primordial it's cosmic in a way
• but we can say that it is a kind of awareness it's a kind of um seeing and knowing if you like if we
• um seeing and knowing if you like if we use those words the kind of awareness that seized
• cosmos as divine as deities uh so it's it's an awareness but it's also
• not separate from what is seen so it's the awareness the most subjective aspect that's included in
• divinity and it's the object scene so the awareness is not separate it's inseparable from the divinities and the
• of of this buddha mind this primordial wisdom awareness where tantric practice is actually kind of
• and the seeing and the objects you know empty and divine so the awareness is divine and empty and and what is seen
• understanding of emptiness so this wisdom awareness is empty um everything that one perceives all
• you like of this primordial wisdom awareness which is also just the whole thing rests on an understanding of
• as that empty primordial wisdom awareness is not separate from us it's so to speak in us

Soulmaking Dyad Practice - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 12 mentions

• i have have i developed a certain amount um uh awareness of my emotional life so that doesn't just mean the difficult
• lot of emphasis in soulmaking drama on emotional awareness emotional skill working with the energy body and those
• etc energy body skill and awareness we already mentioned where am i with the
• direction to do with the nature of awareness etc as they would see it um but doing doing that just on your own
• um so that that becomes part of the awareness as well and there's a sense of us sitting not me necessarily giving
• just to play with the energy body awareness and bringing again same as we do in imaginal practice inhabiting
• keep opening it up opening up filling it with that awareness and uh and and stretching it that way so that's really
• helpful it is to bring the energy body um into play to open up that awareness really really
• of the being some quieting some heightening of sensitive awareness i mean it might be that for some people
• ask even more care and sensitivity and intuitive awareness but as i said the partner
• um so the energy body awareness shrinks or i'm only kind of aware of part of my
• everything including you and me is all one awareness one cosmic awareness one cosmic love is some classic examples

A Wise Relationship to Practice - (Meditation on Emptiness) 12 mentions

• possibilities to do with the nature of awareness to do with love and to do with
• identification is with consciousness or awareness it's not going to be with the sound the
• being something we identify with letting go of the identification with awareness is is more subtle than letting go of the
• to letting go of identification awareness so there's many ways to go about it by the end of the retreat you
• be a much smaller jump to letting go identification with awareness which is still there as a kind of like often
• people say to me how on earth would you let go of identification with awareness we can it's quite subtle and not
• eventually you can even let go of the awareness yeah
• yeah all that so it needs a lot of awareness and integrity to actually keep the aspirations alive in these
• the aspirations alive in these tremendous amount of awareness and integrity to keep them present in the
• without us even noticing it it takes a lot of awareness of integrity to keep love on track to keep our
• our relationship with food with tv with um the way we speak with awareness about aspirations and intentions all of this
• something you can keep within the field of awareness for the rest of the retreat you know these kind

Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 12 mentions

• looking it's a relative degree of fabrication but awareness is empty too actually even the notion of fabrication
• the substance is love um it could be awareness so if you practice a lot with a vastness of
• practice a lot with a vastness of awareness and other related practices and you get a similar thing the the
• cosmopoesis there is is also universal everything is awareness everything is the play of awareness etc
• everything is awareness everything is the play of awareness etc but then there's also
• the question is uh so for example that big awareness thing everything is awareness it really feels or everything
• big awareness thing everything is awareness it really feels or everything is
• um the the cosmos is shot through with the divine love this awareness has somehow the the um the sense people
• interchangeable mean something like the cosmic awareness that is inherently in me and in you and in everything that
• knowing which is also empty this this knowing awareness is empty in itself but the knowing and the appearances and
• um as this kind of field of um of uh empty awareness knowing all things uh and and also the emptiness of all things
• as good in nature as well as that awareness and its inseparability from emptiness from appearances

Second Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation - (The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)) 12 mentions

• but to keep kind of reinvigorating them whole body awareness the awareness will keep shrinking and just keep
• of the body in relation to an area of discomfort just open up the awareness and relax the rest of the body really
• again second one make sure that the awareness is large it will shrink it shrinks when
• shrink um or turtle you know with the awareness will do that and just re-establish it as
• large there's something about having that whole body awareness and the awareness is filling the whole body like
• that whole body awareness and the awareness is filling the whole body like like a sheet like a big sheet that's
• and almost in that bubble of awareness it gives everything more more context so
• what you can do with the breath and with the awareness in relationship to pain sometimes can you be up for that can we
• or filling some again sometimes we fill the body with awareness can you fill it with breath energy that too can be very
• and out the top of the head and just centering the awareness right at the core of the body right in the
• middle of that whole energy field really putting the awareness in there centering it there
• breath is expanding to fill the body just letting the awareness stay there if you want or allowing it to go to any of

Into the Depths of Silence - (November Solitary) 12 mentions

• listening and kind of an expansive awareness can come everyone's just listening
• sense of space opens up expansive awareness and so a person might relate to a sense
• of silence or a sense of space or a sense of kind of the awareness the spacious awareness in which
• sense of kind of the awareness the spacious awareness in which everything seems to happen
• relate to it in any of those ways the silence the awareness the space the space of awareness whatever it is
• silence the awareness the space the space of awareness whatever it is can begin to feel like it embraces
• of this vast silence vast space vast awareness it accommodates everything
• dies back into the silence into the space into the awareness whatever you want to call it however you want to see
• it is silence it is space it is awareness however we're relating to that if this seems really abstract now i
• sense of space or the sense of silence being a thing or the sense of awareness the space of awareness all that is in
• being a thing or the sense of awareness the space of awareness all that is in the realm of perception and the movement
• sense of space or a sense of the awareness in which it all happens so that's not to put that down sometimes