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Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World - (November Solitary) 22 mentions

• formless perceptions whereas this uh infinite expanses of consciousness etc from form and formers from bliss and
• what this realm or whatever we want to call it as consciousness without feature without limit consciousness without an
• call it as consciousness without feature without limit consciousness without an object this mostly it's beyond what we
• being in the world the way a baby's consciousness is without without labeling things
• trying to find our way back to a sort of baby consciousness sometimes you can drop the labels in the
• abandon's desire for perception for mental formations for consciousness through the abandonment of desire the
• through the abandonment of desire the support for consciousness is cut off and there is no basis for consciousness
• support for consciousness is cut off and there is no basis for consciousness consciousness thus unestablished not
• there is no basis for consciousness consciousness thus unestablished not proliferating not performing any
• function is released consciousness not meaning consciousness not knowing anything not performing any
• not knowing anything not performing any function the function of consciousness is to know not knowing anything when in
• measurement the comparison is completely quietened consciousness is released it doesn't
• fabrications there is the cessation of consciousness there is the cessation of perception and so it goes so again
• and i say well it's mine i look at whatever me mine my consciousness whatever it is that goes with the
• and as we move whereas the language gets stiff guys consciousness moves on this spectrum more self more
• less so just just moving between a normal state of consciousness and a really really upset state of
• really really upset state of consciousness we're moving on that spectrum
• and he says right after that he says and any and all consciousness whether near or far whether inner or outer whether
• whether inferior or superior any and all consciousness is like a magician's illusion
• so perception experience object consciousness subject illusion magic mirage
• sariputa said it's like two sheaves of corn consciousness and perception are like two sheaves of corn they lean
• into words consciousness and perception subject and object self and the world mind and thing

Cittamatra - (Meditation on Emptiness) 20 mentions

• take to make up ourselves like feelings and emotions etc can't consciousness all the rest of that and we base our life on
• characteristics begin to open up the consciousness in the kind of ways that the guided meditation this morning was
• the guided meditation this morning was trying to guide the consciousness towards it might anyway open up more of
• towards it might anyway open up more of a sense of space and consciousness more of a sense of insubstantiality of things
• unconditioned because the cosmic consciousness um awareness with a capital a as
• and it has an effect on the heart and on consciousness on the cells on the being long term
• that as a different way in this moment of consciousness this moment of consciousness moment of knowing
• this moment of consciousness this moment of consciousness moment of knowing something
• object or outer percent outer perceived aspect of a moment of consciousness the object
• so it's like the inner perceived aspect of consciousness and what we see the object are like two sides of the same
• can't have an outer perceived object without a inner perceiving consciousness do you get this
• could have can you have a perceiving consciousness with no object of perception no because that would be a
• can you have an object of perception without a perceiving consciousness no because it's an object of perception
• that has to be perceived by perceiving consciousness so two sides of a coin
• can it it can't it can't exist independent of dreaming consciousness and the moment of the dreaming
• and the moment of the dreaming consciousness arises together with the dreaming object okay
• before or after the dreaming consciousness and vice versa the dreaming consciousness can't appear
• consciousness and vice versa the dreaming consciousness can't appear before or after the grooming object
• and the other one is actually more of a stream of momentary consciousnesses and so that uh that's that's a different
• the second approach the mind is is a stream of moments of consciousness with a knowing aspect and a known aspect

Maya and Nirvana (Beyond the Measure of Mind) - (November Solitary) 19 mentions

• show even so monks whatever consciousness be it past future or present in one's self
• void of essence what essence monks could there be in consciousness then he goes on and he says forms body
• there's actually nothing inside consciousness is a magic show a juggler's trick in tire
• form feelings perceptions mental formations and consciousness but also the whole of what we
• way more kind of rooted in in consciousness so there's a very odd passage and it's
• delineation of contact contact means here's the eye and the consciousness and it meets a form and i see something and
• experience and that lens takes the consciousness on a journey that untangles all this it untangles it if we
• what happens to the sense of the solidity of experience to consciousness what happens to that this is an
• measuring actually builds the sense of time to consciousness or i don't want it how long is it going to last
• demarcates them it brings them out makes them prominent to consciousness it gives substance to what otherwise has no
• reality it makes it prominent to to consciousness to perception and then we react we cling the whole thing just kind
• someone asked sorry puta when that happens when the consciousness goes that deep in its untangling its
• opened immeasurably to include all or sometimes the sense of consciousness in what's called infinite consciousness
• or sometimes the sense of consciousness in what's called infinite consciousness can actually open so that that sense of
• can actually open so that that sense of consciousness too also becomes immeasurable wide infinitely wide
• immeasurable wide infinitely wide that sense of infinite consciousness can be either with nothing arising in that
• be either with nothing arising in that consciousness in terms of the sense doors or we're still hearing a little
• doors or we're still hearing a little bit and sounds such but consciousness infinitely wide infinitely expansive
• buddha a couple of occasions talks about consciousness or knowing without feature in other words not

Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 18 mentions

• than perceiving working consciousness we tend to assume that's an ontology it's an
• that it's impossible to have a moment of consciousness a moment of perceiving anything of experiencing anything a
• a way of looking in any moment of consciousness it is possible however to rest from deliberately practicing a way
• sense of subject any sense of object any sense of space or time or consciousness or anything like that
• one's regarding awareness itself the consciousness itself as anata does not mean not mine
• identification with awareness the awareness the consciousness is not me so we have no no possession no
• body evading our perception mental formations and consciousness and what's really empty is the self
• and working on that and trying to raise consciousness about that that would have been
• rising and he tries to explain how consciousness depends on nama rupa nama rupa means
• and sarah puta explains that depends on consciousness perception vadana depend on
• perception vadana depend on consciousness and consciousness sorry buddha goes on
• consciousness and consciousness sorry buddha goes on to explain depends on
• perception attention meaning to perception depends on consciousness consciousness depends on perception
• perception depends on consciousness consciousness depends on perception vading that depends on consciousness
• consciousness depends on perception vading that depends on consciousness consciousness depends on vadna
• vading that depends on consciousness consciousness depends on vadna and maha classical excuse me what
• um what we mean by emptiness these two things let's say consciousness and perception they're not two
• unconsciousness of perception vadana etc and consciousness the mutual interpenetration mutual

The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 18 mentions

• um dissolving the being dissolving the self-dissolving the consciousness actually in the godhead and transcending
• teaching of the buddha of uh or to about cessation of consciousness in what he would call the unfabricated etc that
• neither sphere of infinite space and a sphere of infinite consciousness no sphere of nothingness no sphere of
• about cessation of perception the cessation of consciousness the cessation of mind and that doesn't mean just the
• um consciousness without attribute so it's given there is a sense that
• so it's given there is a sense that there is some kind of consciousness there it is some kind of conscious and
• with the cessation of the sixth sense consciousnesses of um smelling tasting touching seeing
• and thinking with the cessation of the sixth sense consciousness here all is destroyed all of these are destroyed all
• these other perceptions are destroyed and it's just this consciousness without attribute so sometimes this unfabricated
• beyond thinking but beyond perception beyond consciousness in the usual sense and beyond
• beyond perception beyond conception beyond consciousness in the usual sense we can know this we can know that
• can't say there's something there with the cessation of consciousness this total unfabricating of perception you
• any perception any appearance any um typical consciousness and the whole uh even beyond all the genres all the
• open the psyche to the imaginal realm to open the consciousness to that realm the realm of the imaginal and to value it
• if i'm using the word losing that demand to open the consciousness to that realm and to value it
• loosely using that word of demand to open up the consciousness and the sense of value beyond the sort of narrow
• into everything is just matter consciousness emerges as an epi phenomena of matter if you leave matter
• life will come and out of that life consciousness will come etc there's nothing but materialism sorry

Practising with the Three Characteristics - (Meditation on Emptiness) 17 mentions

• have an insight it pops into the consciousness wonderful but that's not the only that's not the total meaning of
• ways of letting go is the the thing itself begin the consciousness begins to have a little more space in it the thing
• you can tune into that it very much energizes the the mind the consciousness as does spaciousness of awareness so
• as the buddha said if the body or the feelings or the mind or consciousness if that were you if that were myself i
• that letting go can often allow a calming of of the consciousness and and of the experience because the pushing
• so usually human beings uh actually unenlightened consciousnesses when when when they regard experience there's a
• this is me or it's mine uh my emotional life my thoughts my consciousness etc we typically regard things as me or mine
• i'm talking to someone or i believe that i am consciousness or something or i could be doing it more typically in a
• what that does is create more space in the consciousness and a kind of lightness there and then seeing the
• really want is the the seeing the consciousness to shift into another mode of seeing usual mode of seeing is to
• okay and the fifth one is consciousness but i'm gonna use the word knowing it's
• let go of your identification with consciousness right now that would probably be quite difficult for you to
• experience being the one who experiences being the consciousness that's a very subtle level of of disidentification
• possible for a meditator the part of the clue is thinking of consciousness as knowing knowing rather than some entity
• knowing knowing rather than some entity called consciousness towards the end of the retreat we're going to talk a lot
• the retreat we're going to talk a lot about the actual nature of consciousness itself and that consciousness is also
• about the actual nature of consciousness itself and that consciousness is also empty in her in existence but

The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 16 mentions

• one of the other factors with samadhi is refinement so the consciousness actually being refined this is this is kind of an
• could get a tantrum it's not a very refined state of consciousness things are pretty gross usually pretty black
• deepens in samadhi more and more refinement to the mind the consciousness so we certainly can talk about discrete
• exploring the potential depths of consciousness this is available to us as human beings as meditators to just go on
• this journey into the depths of consciousness somebody also brings with it as it deep
• up and down and that's just how human consciousness works so talking this morning about the
• dictate you know the whole course of your consciousness for two or three days
• but to accept that they're there they're a feature of consciousness sometimes it's a matter of just seeing
• a kind of just a dullness that comes in a kind of sinking of the consciousness that comes in to be aware of this it's
• dwellings for the heart the heart the being the consciousness dwells in in a space in an inner space of of beauty of
• of a real dwelling place for the consciousness for the mind for the heart compassion joy and equanimity they are
• becomes a dwelling for the consciousness when we think about where does my
• when we think about where does my consciousness my mind usually dwell we actually look at that it's often not
• non-entanglement is a good word so when the mind when the consciousness is not so entangled with things
• this the the being mature is the consciousness matures and it lets go of that attachment don't worry about it go
• they're in hiding or repressed or just out of the range of consciousness and that's what i'm saying kent can we just

Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception - (Meditation on Emptiness) 16 mentions

• see that and we draw this out as a perception to to our consciousness against stillness of mind movement of
• about is really prominent in consciousness it's really standing out it's really
• knowing of things identifying with consciousness so me mining me mining clinging me mining
• subtle level and oftentimes what it will be is identification with consciousness and i said right when we're talking
• perception if you're using awareness and consciousness synonymously yeah synonymously yes yes
• perception uh doesn't exist this thing to my consciousness this experience does not exist
• um the thing is to get the thing into the heart and into the consciousness in the way that it brings real freedom into
• perception what does that depend on and he says consciousness going backwards the third link and consciousness what
• he says consciousness going backwards the third link and consciousness what does consciousness depend on depends on
• the third link and consciousness what does consciousness depend on depends on name and form and the guy goes hold on
• you just said name a form was you just said consciousness was dependent name and form now you're saying name reforms
• and form now you're saying name reforms dependent on consciousness and and sorry put your says that's right like two
• depend on and i saw it was dependent on consciousness and then i asked myself and what does consciousness depend on
• consciousness and then i asked myself and what does consciousness depend on depends on that name and form and he
• what we're saying is basically consciousness and object perception go together but the implications of that
• or defining itself in any ways but it's their implicit in the consciousness because it's working a level of

Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 4) - (Vajra Music) 16 mentions

• um sort of self-consciousness to arise for the person moving
• be it might be that we we even expect that just expect self-consciousness and awkwardness and a kind of a little bit
• um to include that oh okay the self-consciousness going on as well there's a there's a bit of anxiety or a
• can there be a bit more space in the consciousness because anxiety will contract the space of the awareness and
• can help self-consciousness can arise and in the very nature of
• very nature of what we mean by self-consciousness in that sense it's kind of unskillful
• contraction of the attention of the consciousness to the self not a sort of skillful and careful and caring
• counteracts the contraction that's inherent really in self-consciousness in that kind of afflictive
• that kind of afflictive self-consciousness and that's also tends to be intrinsic to
• exercises or situations are likely to trigger self-consciousness self anxiety fear of judgment fear of self-judgment
• so all these are possibilities if or when self-consciousness arises and then it may be to uh to to just
• if i hadn't contracted uh self-consciousness self-obsession because that's not really a soul
• to include it as possibility of self-consciousness and the the affliction of that
• of what's happening that places this very self-consciousness and problem of that in the sight of the
• all kinds of possibilities if or when self-consciousness arises in that kind of afflictive way
• figure that there's less chance of self-consciousness rising because we're less under the

The Experience of Self (Personality and Beyond) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 15 mentions

• into uh cosmic consciousness or something like that that's actually not although that
• um it it got raised in human consciousness to and then even more so in the romantic area etc all of that of
• and a very very subtle level would be just the bare sense of consciousness just the bare sense of awareness
• there's less self there actually helps the consciousness get more familiar and ease into that
• of default conception very deeply embedded in our consciousness that's the way we feel ourselves to be
• collection of all this body and mind and consciousness etc sometimes in in different ways it can seem completely
• the self as as the body the mind and consciousness body mental factors unconscious and you can say the self is
• i own all this itself is something that possesses a body mind consciousness etc you could say or conceive or postulate
• the self is in somewhere in the body mind consciousness or you could say perhaps more mystically
• or you could say perhaps more mystically the body mind consciousness is in the self somehow and then usually the self
• ups us it's the continuum of moments of consciousness and feeling and perception and thought and and accepts the
• same same thing what happens though so often to this deluded consciousness is we take the result maybe it doesn't
• whatever will actually disappear from it will fade from consciousness we will talk about this afterwards it's almost
• way with with the looking with the with the consciousness with the same and once as you said being the seeing
• um when when consciousness opens to a new a new and unfamiliar state of less self to