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Home and Homelessness - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 12 mentions

• everything is changing but the awareness of staying steady and the awareness is just there kind of
• but the awareness of staying steady and the awareness is just there kind of witnessing everything
• witnessing everything can sometimes feel as if awareness is a vast space in which all this uncertainty
• difficulties arising and passing and the awareness is kind of effortlessly embracing it
• certainly in the teachings to make a home in awareness and again this is very skillful it's
• practicing what would that mean to actually rest in awareness and take the sense of home and security and
• the sense of home and security and rootedness in the space of awareness so
• all our experience is being born and dying being born out of that awareness and dying back into that awareness can
• dying being born out of that awareness and dying back into that awareness can seem like that
• have a sense of security in that awareness we actually have to take a leap of faith and assume that that
• leap of faith and assume that that awareness continues after death who knows
• we kind of need a faith in an eternal awareness to me that's not quite secure because as

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

Hearing All Sounds as Mantra - A Jewelline World - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of... 11 mentions

• is it possible to let the center of the awareness be in the heart center
• rather than the head center or anywhere else is at the center of your awareness is in the middle of the chest in the
• heart and just letting the awareness be centered there and move outward
• ing that space filling it with awareness so there is
• and when you're ready still in in this awareness if you can keep this awareness and when you're already opening your
• room but seeing if you can do that with awareness of the energy body just paying attention to the energy body
• letting that space a bit bigger than you and filling out with awareness but again seeing if you can let let the
• seeing if you can let let the let that awareness center in the heart center in the middle of the chest
• but you're in that energy body space you're filling that with awareness i think
• and then just dwelling together in the silence with that awareness might be open or closed if you prefer
• re-transition to the sitting posture with the same kind of awareness of the energy body etc

An Introduction to the Jhanas - (Practising the Jhānas) 11 mentions

• cohesion a unification of mind and body and awareness and and bodily experience all that
• composure born of tranquility unification of awareness free from directed thought and evaluation and with
• permeating the body with a pure bright awareness so that there is nothing of his entire body unpervaded by that pure
• his entire body unpervaded by that pure bright awareness just as if a man was sitting wrapped
• even so the monk sits permeating his body with a pure bright awareness as nothing of his entire body unpervaded
• as nothing of his entire body unpervaded by that pure bright awareness then so this is called the first the
• relational skill and psychological awareness and and wants to understand something about emptiness as uh as
• attunement and sensitivity subtlety of awareness beauty magic art okay
• walking meditation is with energy body awareness okay actually if you're already familiar with janna okay then
• forward it doesn't matter what what helps me get that energy body awareness and helps me get into it and in touch
• just walk up and down with a whole body awareness okay so just the sensations in the whole body not

Sharing Soul Sense (A Temenos Exercise) - (Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma) 11 mentions

• vivid sense of how much kind of refinement of awareness and sensitivity and
• keeping that sense of content opening up the whole space of the awareness of the energy body you're really very much in
• another we're just it's just an exercise in developing awareness and sensitivity in this case in a certain context
• and again can you open up the the dual awareness recognizing that you are receiving right
• settling opening up the energy body through the awareness the sensitivity to what's reverberating there
• settling in the body the openness of the whole body awareness and if you can
• somehow bring into your awareness bring up for your soul remind yourself
• maybe it's just energetic or emotional again the awareness and the effects can be at any level in any arena of our
• recede and again just coming to an awareness of whatever is happening in your experience right now
• in the silence to open that awareness that sensitivity of the soul resonances and
• allowing in to the attention tuning the awareness to just notice what you notice of what reverberates

Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 11 mentions

• for example um the energy body awareness we can always
• reopen that spread that right awareness in in the space of the body and fill that with
• to subtle uh to a subtle sense because awareness is always in a dualistic relationship with its object
• anchoring as they come back to the breath or mindfulness as awareness is is kind of um
• um so much of a sense of dimensionality even if awareness is larger than objects and experiences mindfulness is
• opening to a cosmic or universal awareness not just mindfulness but a universal cosmic awareness
• awareness not just mindfulness but a universal cosmic awareness um again that that holds everything or
• that things really are in the depths of their being they are this awareness this cosmic awareness
• their being they are this awareness this cosmic awareness um
• that too would would that both those examples the awareness and the love when they're when you have a cosmic sense of
• but neither of them neither the cosmic awareness nor the cosmic love include the personal

What is Awakening? (Part 2) - (The Mirrored Gates) 11 mentions

• uh it can also be kind of just the locus or the seat of sensation or awareness it can also be regarded as that which we
• sometimes the buddha talks about it as uh as a kind of awareness um a kind of consciousness consciousness
• consciousness without an object awareness without an object sometimes the buddha articulates this
• makes it very clear that it is not the same as consciousness or awareness and it only the the opening to it only
• um just in what i've said so far in terms of is it awareness is it not awareness etc
• terms of is it awareness is it not awareness etc um
• way the conditioned mind can get to is simpler than awareness it's simpler than oneness
• cosmic consciousness the oneness of awareness the oneness of nothingness etc etc
• say it is aware uh in in the usual sense of awareness um a because it's not in time b it has
• excuse me any phenomena awareness time the now you name it
• or an or a space or you know whatever or vastness of awareness or disappear completely at times in cessation of

Dependent Origination, Awareness, and Time - (Meditation on Emptiness) 11 mentions

• so for example the chitamatra open awareness just letting everything belong just letting things go or relaxing the
• and his three reasons why inherent existence of awareness doesn't really hold water and third one the third one
• asking whether this consciousness is this awareness this mind that supposedly inherent existence existent
• fact the problem with passive notions of awareness is that they don't they don't um take this they don't see this uh
• movement of intention and attention it's an consciousness awareness is an active doing process
• mind is kind of paying attention some so it involves i would say awareness and intentionality wrapped up make attention
• when there is ignorance when there is a belief in a subject of awareness objects and time
• there is a subject of experience there is awareness that knows objects in time
• there is all i am even if i don't use the word i there is awareness and awareness knows objects and that happens
• the word i there is awareness and awareness knows objects and that happens in time okay it's totally the most
• not just meaning if i if there's a self that owns the awareness if owns the consciousness so the knowing the

Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 1) - (Meditation Day) 11 mentions

• is why we can develop this capacity of awareness it's a mindfulness awareness attention
• awareness it's a mindfulness awareness attention these are all words that are somewhat
• discovering our freedom so the goal of the path is not awareness it's not being in the moment
• this is quite a subtle level of awareness i'm approaching a conversation what am i
• on knowing what's in awareness so it might be in the mind there's thought going on
• aspects because it's what knows it knows what's in awareness that's all it's not getting rid of anything
• it's not getting rid of anything it just knows what's in awareness it's a very simple
• mindfulness just knowing what's in awareness but as i said mindfulness is is one of these words
• dimensions so that's one aspect knowing what's in awareness second aspect that actually you
• hold it in consciousness hold it steady then the mind the awareness can draw near to that and begin to understand it
• listening it's this am i uh connected with what's going on with an awareness of what i'm doing

On Orientations in Practice (live and shortened version) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry... 11 mentions

• um or if you like more that we're talking about a kind of awareness a kind of sensitivity a sensibility
• whole field here this space here with the awareness become bright and calm and that serve as a real resource in our
• to to harmonize the energy body and dwell in that and and let the awareness spread in that
• subtlety the possibility of a subtlety of awareness a subtlety of sensibility now we're not making a hierarchy here
• opening opening is such a there will be a tendency for the awareness to shrink and just opening again it's really about
• more about the tuning the kind of awareness foreign
• there's a sort of vast panoramic awareness of the whole space in the sky but all of these are wonderful i think
• the walking period no problem just really what's helping this awareness of the energy body yeah
• the house it's good to slow down that will help this energy body awareness again not because we're aiming for
• again not because we're aiming for microscopic awareness and that can really slow
• um but just the slowness will help the energy body awareness for most people now