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PS - Playing in the In-Betweens - (Practising the Jhānas) 28 mentions

• the same it's the same thing papancha compared to normal consciousness normal and and you just keep following that
• subtler thing much more deeply woven into consciousness and i'll come back to that hopefully in this talk
• intricated if that's even a word into into consciousness and how consciousness works i'll come back to that later
• space has disappeared with regard to the sphere of infinite consciousness the perception of the sphere of infinite
• perception of the sphere of infinite consciousness has disappeared with regard to the sphere of nothingness the
• nor on the sphere of infinite space the sphere of infinite consciousness the sphere of nothingness the sphere of
• as if it's a subject as if it's consciousness released and there was that analogy i talked about yesterday of
• um what remains with with the cessation of the sixth sense consciousnesses smell sight taste
• the five senses and and the men and mental consciousness when that all stops the cessation of the sixth sense
• the cessation of the sixth sense consciousness and their respective objects of knowledge smells science
• mind what remains is consciousness without attribute without end luminous all
• and body awareness all are destroyed with the cessation of consciousness i.e those sixth sense consciousnesses here
• with the cessation of consciousness i.e those sixth sense consciousnesses here each of these is destroyed
• uh first phrase their consciousness without attribute the pali is actually
• to point to something or to show something and so it's consciousness that does not point to anything again does
• yesterday so it's a consciousness completely released from any kind of object
• fabrications and con and uh consciousness in other words the five aggregates form vadana perceptions
• aggregates form vadana perceptions fabrications and consciousness it regards them as
• mental formations fabrications and consciousness and he regards them in one of these four ways
• feel it in your body in the consciousness of some degree of unbinding some degree of release from
• feeling perception intention consciousness desire desire um persistent mindfulness equanimity
• or something like um consciousness there's many ways to understand its its voidness its
• genre itself but the actual elements how is it that consciousness arises how is it that consciousness fades
• how is it that consciousness arises how is it that consciousness fades how is it that a sense of contact or a
• what might be the simplest possible self yeah just just a sense of consciousness just a a sense of consciousness no story
• yeah just just a sense of consciousness just a a sense of consciousness no story no personality just a congestant
• that partial understanding it's the mind awareness consciousness and all the elements of the mind that make up the
• i sense through that in my being in the fibers of my being and my consciousness i sense through that this again we run

The Subtlety of Dependent Origination - (Meditation on Emptiness) 28 mentions

• surgery uh on consciousness um but it's all in the service of that
• that and time is so prominent in consciousness that it time is is in your face it's very very present very
• if i have a thing in the present for consciousness anything an inner thing an outer thing anything
• empty leaning on a vacuum what about consciousness consciousness knowing is also dependent
• what about consciousness consciousness knowing is also dependent on time
• perception so actually the present is a is empty in which case consciousness is leaning on something empty too
• and not 12 and it actually stops it goes back and it ends at consciousness it doesn't go into
• and he says then i realize it depends on consciousness depends on nigh and i said and then he asked himself what does
• knowing depend on what does consciousness depend on he says it depends on nama rupa he said that was
• the implicit mutual emptiness of consciousness if we unpack it uh rupa forms and
• could say the buddha is saying consciousness is dependent on those those are dependent
• dependent on those those are dependent on consciousness and that was the moment of awakening
• attention say attention is consciousness plus intention
• right it's directed knowing it's direct consciousness directed at this directed at that with the intention to keep
• a sense of an object an object for consciousness depends on attention it's what makes an object an object for
• it's what makes an object an object for consciousness is my paying attention to again could be deliberate or
• as attention up an object for consciousness depends on attention what does attention need to be attention
• attention to be there to be that for consciousness if i have a sense of this moment this
• moment but this moment for consciousness in a way it's delineated so to speak it's
• then dependent on knowing time is dependent on consciousness this moments depend on knowing knowing means
• depend on knowing knowing means consciousness time is dependent on consciousness
• consciousness time is dependent on consciousness knowing depends on
• that's not actually there in the consciousness and non-arupa thing where he says why why do we do all that well
• you could say the other way around consciousness knowing is also dependent on object attention intentions time
• delusion either dependent on consciousness depend on mind depending on perception
• the self i am knowing this is my knowing my consciousness but also a center in time
• that actually i cannot separate consciousness awareness whatever i want to call it mind from attention from
• unfindable then as well because unfined was a separate entity or consciousness awareness being i'm fine the first of

The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The Self cannot be found anywhere) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 28 mentions

• deeply in a way that penetrates the heart and penetrates the consciousness and penetrates the life and the being
• talk the whole of yesterday's talk is also present in your consciousness in a perfectly accessible way as is uh the
• self actually most consciousnesses have of themselves um
• perceptions mental formations and consciousness is investigating that relationship
• intentions etc moods uh and consciousness and all of that those are the five possible
• our moods we identify with our thoughts or consciousness or something okay so it's one possible way so we could divide
• with thoughts and moods and intentions that leaves consciousness which is a tricky one and we're going to come back
• tricky one and we're going to come back to consciousness a lot on this retreat and actually investigate it more
• and actually investigate it more but in the teachings consciousness actually means
• knowing knowing is a better translation of vignana than consciousness and so we know this and we know that and we know
• of analysis the process of meditation the process of consciousness is actually also empty
• am i angry at there knowing their consciousness they're knowing they're knowing of this or that am i angry at
• separate from the act separate from consciousness and perception and feeling and form it would actually be a complete
• say it's part of this divine universal consciousness so yeah good do we have a we're gonna revisit this divine universe
• the the buddhas you know teaching us any consciousness cannot be the self any kind so whether it's subtle or expanded
• um experientially they're all consciousnesses that we experience and then don't experience and experience and
• um if even if i say there's one big divine consciousness then i still have to look at that and say
• it doesn't know anything in which case it's not really a consciousness or it knows lots of things and then when it
• knows lots of things and then when it knows this it's not the consciousness that's knowing that it's a different in
• could say bearing in mind the consciousness aggregate is is knowing and perceiving of of the six senses you
• um because it doesn't have the properties of consciousness or perception or feeling or anything like
• identification all kinds of ways when i have when the consciousness opens up in a sense of oneness it can feel like wow
• of a continuum in time so let's say even just a continuum of consciousness of moments of consciousness the past is
• just a continuum of consciousness of moments of consciousness the past is gone where is it it's gone the future
• the self was the continuum of moments of consciousness and time that was the true nature of the self would it then be that
• how to say this the the the consciousness is not separate from what is known
• there's the knowing and then and and the the subject we call consciousness and the what is known and they go together
• but also vadana and perceptions and consciousness so they too are not just empty of being owned by someone they're

The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) - (Practising the Jhānas) 28 mentions

• the same it's the same thing papancha compared to normal consciousness normal and and you just keep following that
• subtler thing much more deeply woven into consciousness and i'll come back to that hopefully in this talk
• intricated if that's even a word into into consciousness and how consciousness works i'll come back to that later
• space has disappeared with regard to the sphere of infinite consciousness the perception of the sphere of infinite
• perception of the sphere of infinite consciousness has disappeared with regard to the sphere of nothingness the
• nor on the sphere of infinite space the sphere of infinite consciousness the sphere of nothingness the sphere of
• as if it's a subject as if it's consciousness released and there was that analogy i talked about yesterday of
• um what remains with with the cessation of the sixth sense consciousnesses smell sight taste
• the five senses and and the men and mental consciousness when that all stops the cessation of the sixth sense
• the cessation of the sixth sense consciousness and their respective objects of knowledge smells science
• mind what remains is consciousness without attribute without end luminous all
• and body awareness all are destroyed with the cessation of consciousness i.e those sixth sense consciousnesses here
• with the cessation of consciousness i.e those sixth sense consciousnesses here each of these is destroyed
• uh first phrase their consciousness without attribute the pali is actually
• to point to something or to show something and so it's consciousness that does not point to anything again does
• yesterday so it's a consciousness completely released from any kind of object
• fabrications and con and uh consciousness in other words the five aggregates form vadana perceptions
• aggregates form vadana perceptions fabrications and consciousness it regards them as
• mental formations fabrications and consciousness and he regards them in one of these four ways
• feel it in your body in the consciousness of some degree of unbinding some degree of release from
• feeling perception intention consciousness desire desire um persistent mindfulness equanimity
• or something like um consciousness there's many ways to understand its its voidness its
• genre itself but the actual elements how is it that consciousness arises how is it that consciousness fades
• how is it that consciousness arises how is it that consciousness fades how is it that a sense of contact or a
• what might be the simplest possible self yeah just just a sense of consciousness just a a sense of consciousness no story
• yeah just just a sense of consciousness just a a sense of consciousness no story no personality just a congestant
• that partial understanding it's the mind awareness consciousness and all the elements of the mind that make up the
• i sense through that in my being in the fibers of my being and my consciousness i sense through that this again we run

The Nature of Awareness - (November Solitary) 28 mentions

• the nature of mind of consciousness and so right right to start uh just to
• inquiry so awareness consciousness mind
• that which knows mind awareness consciousness at first uh in our practice it might not
• suitors but in the cometries that consciousness too arises and passes many many times a second and it's
• this arising and passing of phenomenon the rising and passing of consciousness the true nature of consciousness is uh
• the rising and passing of consciousness the true nature of consciousness is uh very fastly arising passing rising
• skill some degree of freedom comes out of that that seeing consciousness that way
• arising passing rising passing is that the true nature of consciousness what has become perhaps a more popular
• and so the the typical normal human consciousness sense we have of awareness being in the body usually somewhere here
• one mind cosmic consciousness there's a very real perception a very
• awareness knowing itself play of consciousness and all this begins to really make sense
• eternal awareness awareness consciousness whatever name you want to give it that which knows
• i might say what is going on here sometimes i can experience consciousness this is very rapid rising passing
• could it be that consciousness and the perception of things are actually bound up together
• perception of very fast arising and passing consciousness begins to appear that way when there's a perception of
• uh it's hard to put into words but consciousness sort of pops out and there's a
• but then to go a step further and reflect awareness consciousness also not me not mine it's also just happening
• back here and identify with the subject the consciousness and in some traditions you hear you are
• no knowledge so what we begin to see consciousness awareness that which knows mind whatever
• that consciousness attention intention perception vadana the push pull that
• each other completely dependent consciousness depends on perception and perception
• depends on perception and perception depends on consciousness all of these stand together sort of propping each
• no doing no being consciousness depends on things and objects
• objects and things depend on consciousness consciousness does not exist in time
• consciousness consciousness does not exist in time this is completely counter-intuitive
• it's groundless consciousness gives is dependent on all these other factors and all these other
• these other factors and all these other factors are dependent on consciousness there's nothing anywhere in any way
• also not nothing consciousness unfindable it's unfindable but not unfined like

Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 26 mentions

• distances it naturally lends the the consciousness a sense of openness and opening out to
• it's such a it seems such a natural part of consciousness deepening and opening that we really need to fall in love with
• arise within that uh cosmic consciousness uh awareness with a capital a uh big mind
• names people ground of being or god or cosmic consciousness in a way they're also in other traditions yogis
• you it's actually quite a common natural opening of consciousness for a meditator why going back to the beginning it comes
• from letting go the natural opening of consciousness when we let the more we let go
• starts with some reflection this moment of consciousness this moment of consciousness there's
• this moment of consciousness this moment of consciousness there's actually no proof
• the inner perceiving aspect of a moment of consciousness can't arise without the outer perceiving aspect and we talked we
• touched on this before i said it's like you know consciousness and it's object like two sides of the same coin yeah
• outer perceived aspect without an inner perceiving aspect of consciousness both simultaneously have to be there
• okay a perceiving consciousness without an object of perception perceiving
• object of perception perceiving consciousness without an object of perception is actually contradiction in
• terms i can have a perceiving consciousness that doesn't perceive anything doesn't
• terms as is an object of perception with no perceiving consciousness doing this yeah
• or after that dream moment of consciousness and vice versa the dream moment of consciousness does not arise
• consciousness and vice versa the dream moment of consciousness does not arise before or after the moment of the object
• before or after the moment of the object of that dream consciousness so that's a sort of a very crude summary
• has an inner perceiving aspect with consciousness and out of perceiving aspect the object that we feel we're
• um well people can hear that consciousness always rise with an object as two separate things arising together
• regarding the mind as a stream of moments of consciousness with a knowing and a known aspect
• is the manifestation play of mind awareness consciousness there's nothing out there
• site it was more like the stream of momentary consciousness and there's not a separation there's not a separation
• existing awareness but in that very same sutra they say that consciousness awareness mind or whatever arises guess
• like i said it's so much the natural way that consciousness would open anyway in time with letting go that i was more
• will move it's a natural way that the more we we let go that the consciousness unfolds that the perception rather

Third Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation - (Samatha Meditation) 23 mentions

• what we're talking about here depth of consciousness cultivation of love of compassion of generosity of patience of
• what happens uh sometimes in people's consciousness when we hear about experience or realms of experience where
• that degree of precision about state of consciousness and that's in a way what john johnas are they're states of
• john johnas are they're states of consciousness and he outlined eight states of
• and he outlined eight states of consciousness that are particularly um he
• take the pt and in a way take that as a focus absorb the mind the consciousness into the pt meaning just really get into
• in different ways sort of a manifestation of consciousness as if consciousness itself is infinite and
• manifestation of consciousness as if consciousness itself is infinite and spreading throughout infinitely
• you know parallels and other traditions and cosmic consciousness and that kind of thing and there it is a very real
• of thing and there it is a very real sense that consciousness is not in here somewhere in here it's actually spread
• at deeper levels of this everything is consciousness piece of paper the floor of the walls
• the birds the trees it's all consciousness animal or inanimate truly uh remarkable states of being
• but even that can deepen this consciousness it only gets absorbed in a sense of what's called infinite
• possibility a possible what the possibilities of consciousness might be of a consciousness not caught up in the
• possibilities of consciousness might be of a consciousness not caught up in the hindrances not caught up so much in
• begins to impress very deeply on consciousness a sense of oneness as a real reality as a real fact of life so
• uh in the sixth genre infinite consciousness that oneness goes beyond the physical to an even
• deeper sense of ones where it's all one consciousness it's all one mind for this cosmic consciousness sense uh that's uh
• consciousness it's all one mind for this cosmic consciousness sense uh that's uh times found in the hindi tradition
• attachment to view attachment to view meaning uh a sense of consciousness being
• infinite or the real nature of things being consciousness itself um that kind of thing is extremely
• seeing oh it's just infinite consciousness or whatever it's not actually ultimate yet so knowing what is
• uh less and less appears in consciousness so all that uh and you know i'm aware to

Jhana Practice - (Samatha Meditation) 23 mentions

• what we're talking about here depth of consciousness cultivation of love of compassion of generosity of patience of
• what happens sometimes in people's consciousness when we hear about experience or realms of
• that degree of precision about state of consciousness and that's in a way what john john is are there states of
• john john is are there states of consciousness and he outlined eight states of
• and he outlined eight states of consciousness that are particularly [music]
• as a focus absorb the mind the consciousness into the pt meaning just really get into it really enjoy it
• different ways it sort of a manifestation of consciousness as if consciousness itself is infinite
• manifestation of consciousness as if consciousness itself is infinite and spreading throughout infinitely
• you know parallels and other traditions and cosmic consciousness and that kind of thing and there really is a very real
• of thing and there really is a very real sense that consciousness is not in here somewhere in here it's actually spread
• at deeper levels of this everything is consciousness piece of paper the floor of the walls
• the birds the trees it's all consciousness animal or inanimate truly uh remarkable states of being
• but even that can deepen this consciousness in a way gets absorbed in a sense of what's called infinite
• possibility a possible what the possibilities of consciousness might be of a consciousness not caught up in the
• possibilities of consciousness might be of a consciousness not caught up in the hindrances not caught up so much in
• begins to impress very deeply on consciousness a sense of oneness as a real reality as a real fact of life so
• uh in the sixth general infinite consciousness that oneness goes beyond the physical to an even
• sense of oneness where it's all one consciousness it's all one mind but this cosmic consciousness sense uh that's uh
• consciousness it's all one mind but this cosmic consciousness sense uh that's uh sometimes found in the hindu tradition
• attachment to view attachment to view meaning uh a sense of consciousness being
• infinite of the real nature of things being consciousness itself that kind of thing is extremely powerful
• seeing oh it's just infinite consciousness or whatever it's not actually ultimate yet so knowing what is
• uh less and less appears in consciousness foreign

"To see no-thing is to see excellently" - (Meditation on Emptiness) 23 mentions

• meditation of perception meaning experience or object for consciousness perception experience object for
• perception experience object for consciousness dissolving and failing and seeing that
• physically i'm saying exist for consciousness okay i'm just talking that phenomenological
• i'm just talking that phenomenological mode right now exist for consciousness so when buddha's original teaching is
• perception the thing the object for consciousness in certain ways it fades there's no metaphysical speculation
• perception it's a thing it's an object for consciousness and i and i disidentify with that or disidentify the
• perceptions mental formations and consciousness so from nagarjuna's precious garland
• so that leaves consciousness as i said yesterday i'm i planning my
• deepen it's hard hard hard subtle to see that consciousness has no inherent existence hard to see easier to see that
• so we've touched on a little bit the mutual dependence of consciousness and its object consciousness and object
• mutual dependence of consciousness and its object consciousness and object mutually dependent
• mutually dependent so to know consciousness means to know something and to know means knowing
• intellectually yes sure i understand consciousness needs an object therefore it's in therefore it lacks inherent
• understand that intellectually consciousness another thing to be able to bring that into meditation and have
• get back to what would it even mean what does the cessation of consciousness mean the buddha talks about the cessation of
• the buddha talks about the cessation of consciousness if we talk about fading what does it mean to see consciousness
• consciousness if we talk about fading what does it mean to see consciousness fade what on earth could that possibly
• meditatively see the emptiness the lack of inherent existence of consciousness again i doubt it's something that anyone
• formations and intentions does not see consciousness mind or mentality sees reality
• formations or intentions does not see consciousness mind or mentality sees reality
• are a lot more solid things are a lot more prominent to consciousness when i'm less less less the meditator is
• end and the uh and the perception of it begin consciousness and perception are they you know are they separatable
• separation between attention attention consciousness and the intention to pay attention to something

Love and the Emptiness of Things - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 22 mentions

• opening the door of awareness opening the door of consciousness and totally totally welcoming just opening it up so
• staying so an experience a phenomena a dharma stays in consciousness for a while
• mindfulness but any moment of consciousness has some degree of
• a spectrum and any moment of consciousness from as i said complete rage to
• all beings etc this is right any moment of consciousness can be placed somewhere on that spectrum somewhere on that
• you can't you can't okay you can't human beings actually consciousnesses slugs sheep human beings all of them
• mind is that objects make less impression in consciousness they're less prominent in consciousness
• impression in consciousness they're less prominent in consciousness and we can see this in the practice
• life or this thing going on in my consciousness is a problem practice this way to see inherently it
• responsibility responsibility that gives to consciousness immense that's one level we can go a bit deeper
• earlier in the retreat we were talking about moments at times the consciousness can open up into the sense of oneness or
• you know turn your consciousness inside out grasping builds experience
• minds are empty what we call consciousness is actually empty doesn't really exist as something
• or levels of love even worse word but the human consciousness moves on that continuum it has to move on that
• love without an object and that's all there and the human consciousness amazingly can move on that spectrum it
• will be a sense of consciousness opening out very vast spaciousness and one is just
• like that whatever it is infinite consciousness pervading the universe these are all quite related states very
• any perception whatsoever of space of consciousness of time of a present moment of things of self of other all of
• or you know a lot of different charged words get used or infinite consciousness cosmic consciousness etc
• words get used or infinite consciousness cosmic consciousness etc that that's unconditioned and it can
• yes it's possible for for you could say for consciousness to open out into that but even that's not quite the right
• moment and um consciousness knowing something or knowing itself or something and in in in