What is this?

What is Awakening? (Part 2) - (The Mirrored Gates) 15 mentions

• perception and mental formations and consciousness and moment to moment in time
• uh as a kind of awareness um a kind of consciousness consciousness without limit without future or
• without limit without future or consciousness without an object consciousness without an object
• consciousness without an object consciousness without an object awareness without an object
• makes it very clear that it is not the same as consciousness or awareness and it only the the opening to it only
• cessation with the complete cessation of all six consciousnesses in other words um the consciousness of seeing sight
• all six consciousnesses in other words um the consciousness of seeing sight smell taste touch
• smell taste touch sound and and mental consciousness thought imagery etc
• with the cessation of those consciousness there is this there is this opening to something and he and he
• sometimes it's kind of putting the positive either as consciousness or some other kind of positive and sometimes
• i mean the cessation of all consciousnesses what does that mean
• not simple for uh not simple for for our consciousness that hasn't opened it to to grow or
• oneness of cosmic love the oneness of cosmic consciousness the oneness of awareness the oneness of nothingness
• of whatever it is cosmic consciousness or no self or this sort of
• the body the the atoms the vadina the the moment of consciousness time so the elements of the process and the time it

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

Into the Depths of Silence - (IMS Forest Refuge) 15 mentions

• why i'm talking about that would become an object for consciousness and in this talk i want to talk a bit about going
• and we begin to kind of slowly it's almost as if the being the consciousness begins to become receptive to something
• on the other but there's a level of silence the consciousness can open to that's really not about the absence of
• thoughts it's interesting why is it that the consciousness can can get obsessed in that way with thoughts and they just
• what again comes to the fore what rises up in into prominence in consciousness is what we had
• and one says the birth of things a phenomena of objects of consciousness they're born in that space in that
• now what very beautiful potential opening of the heart of consciousness but what we see here as well and this is
• prominent they they stand out less to consciousness they stand out of the silence less
• gradually and again nonlinearly the consciousness is letting go of its preoccupation with objects
• solidity significance to things and events and objects in consciousness what is real there
• security with some things it somehow closes the consciousness because we're wrapped up in a certain kind of looking
• and efforting it closes the consciousness so that we we miss another kind of mystery we miss another kind of
• events and happenings and objects of consciousness something in the nothing
• actually organically we begin to def consciousness begins to define the world less i'll talk about this in another
• you know walk that path how how the consciousness might begin to be drawn into that journey this actually all is

The Self and the World - (Deepening in Wisdom) 14 mentions

• it's a typical typical for human consciousness regards
• such a whole bag of mental formation and consciousness body
• original perception mental formations consciousness five aggregates of human beings and he goes through the same way
• very typical again human consciousness or any consciousness way of conceiving and
• typical again human consciousness or any consciousness way of conceiving and there's no judgment in this at all it's
• there's no judgment in this at all it's just part of how consciousness works there's seek conceiving of the self as a
• and that awareness or witness consciousness of whatever you want to call it it feels it can feel like it's
• talk earlier awareness consciousness knowing as the fifth aggregate is not south the first
• the witness mindfulness awareness consciousness whatever
• together with factors factors of consciousness factors in mind that as john said this morning the color
• very subtle what's in what's with the consciousness consciousness can not exist by itself so the experience has
• by what whatever else is with consciousness so this word sankara and it was
• the thing the prominence of that thing in consciousness a sense of the world the world experience gets a little bit
• so when even let's go the identification of consciousness which is a very subtle thing to let go of identification with

The Union of Appearance and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 14 mentions

• stand out to us that's what will appear to consciousness compassion likewise
• completely beyond phenomenon consciousness whether for some people that sounds uh like it's ringing bells
• psycharis brings a cessation of consciousness what does that mean cessation of consciousness and the
• consciousness what does that mean cessation of consciousness and the cessation of perceptions vadana which
• he's he doesn't say it's the cessation of the coloring of consciousness that consciousness is just more neutral it
• of the coloring of consciousness that consciousness is just more neutral it doesn't tend to be so biased it's not
• he doesn't say it's the cessation of a kind of distortion of consciousness he doesn't say it's a distortion outer
• cessation of an egotistical consciousness very very uh
• radically different separate things as an ordinary consciousness and something very very different
• element independent arising that gives rise to consciousness and experience how do you feel about that
• if it's delusion that gives rise this to consciousness and experience that i'm aware this might sound extremely
• possible that they sustain appearances and consciousness and perceptions
• aggregates like that if you say consciousness i'm going to say emptiness if you say emptiness i'm going to say
• if you say emptiness i'm going to say consciousness in other words wherever you lean i'll

Sila and Soul (Part 6) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 14 mentions

• of the totality of values that that range is limited in the consciousness in the moral consciousness of a certain
• range is limited in the consciousness in the moral consciousness of a certain culture or a certain person
• sense of responsibility and in the consciousness of guilt but no lesson infallibility of the prohibitive
• a sense of responsibility and the consciousness of gail the shrinking from doing what we think is bad beforehand
• conception in the soul in the consciousness for a period of time for a period of practice or whatever and see
• perhaps see them or hold them all in consciousness at once perhaps we'll come back to that later
• his belief in it he has even a deep consciousness that he is free so we feel that somehow that we are free he feels
• renounce without a struggle the consciousness of freedom would be a renunciation of his selfhood
• whether or not there might be a sense of that in a more meditative consciousness is a different to me a different
• a virtue that kind of burst into consciousness historically with the emergence of christianity to very much
• turning the other cheek all these these eruption into human consciousness of this the domination if you like of this
• potential tyranny of some values the content or the human consciousness or the soul in its fervor in its love in
• is a limit beyond which is dominant in consciousness ceases to be of value yeah just imagine take any one single
• given the counterweight if it dominates too much the consciousness and the moral kind of sight and sensibility there's

Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5) - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 14 mentions

• if you what the buddha does is divide awareness into six six consciousnesses one with each of the scent stores so
• just there was there was taste there was consciousness of the tea and it was like wow
• perception from awareness perception from consciousness in other words to be aware is to be aware of something to be
• something we do so in any moment of consciousness there's something that's known
• um with words like awareness and consciousness because they're nouns and so we tend to think of a thing
• called awareness or think of consciousness there's also a problem meditatively because there there's a lot
• even if it's not a very tangible thing called awareness or consciousness very very helpful states but they tend to
• that would be the sixth conscious the mind consciousness is is aware of thoughts yeah so that's another way you
• um and so you go through all the aggregates maybe in consciousness and there's ways of logically deconstructing
• question a while ago about is is um his love and consciousness the same thing you know oftentimes this space can
• it's filled with or it's like consciousness with a big c it's cosmic consciousness and it's really really
• consciousness with a big c it's cosmic consciousness and it's really really striking beautiful experience that one
• just less and less appearing to consciousness there's more and more nothingness
• then what just leaps out at your at your consciousness is impermanence and then that seems to feel like alive and

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

• so nourishing the heart nourishing the mind the consciousness the being in the most wholesome way possible
• again we can go into this sense of consciousness just awareness the space where it's just being a very open door
• experience of the object of consciousness for its arising
• without forcing the objects of consciousness whatever arises is arising in that space
• tend to things make less impression on consciousness when there's a lot of love or a lot of equanimity
• um that's the default human consciousness is programmed incredibly strongly to go to that default mode
• in and out of various states of consciousness and then one just says which one is real
• love and we as human beings our consciousness our heart moves along along that
• it's something about being human the amazing range of human consciousness is really uh it's staggering the the
• capacity of the range of human consciousness to move along that whole spectrum
• bit more which is meta to the site so to that impression in consciousness that that image and consciousness as a
• so to that impression in consciousness that that image and consciousness as a dharma as an experience and whatever is
• you know when there's not a lot of consciousness of suffering feels very much like meta so there is
• very quick at doing it so it's just whatever's in consciousness whatever's prominent there the meta goes and it's

'The Holy Life' (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 14 mentions

• the movements of the mind beyond beyond consciousness really and so he should he says again as an
• you should smash destroy and demolish consciousness it's not often you hear um that quote in in kind of modern
• perceptions mental formations and consciousness smash it destroy it demolish it
• vaden and perception sankara consciousness so what is the pali cannon but what is
• cessation of the six senses and the sixth sense consciousnesses what remains is in more positive terms consciousness
• sixth sense consciousnesses what remains is in more positive terms consciousness without attribute
• can also translate that as something like consciousness that does not look at anything or point anything out
• um or indicate anything in other words a consciousness without an object um consciousness without attributes
• consciousness without an object um consciousness without attributes another way of translating without end
• are destroyed with the cessation of consciousness meaning the sixth sense consciousness here each of these is
• consciousness meaning the sixth sense consciousness here each of these is destroyed all of that earth air water
• neither sphere of infinite space space no sphere of infinite consciousness no sphere of nothingness no sphere of
• said beyond oneness of love beyond the oneness of consciousness etc
• dimension same word ayatna sphere of infinite space of infinite consciousness these are different dimensions or realms

Time and the Emptiness of Time - (November Solitary) 13 mentions

• so deeply entangled uh bound out with the nature of consciousness that should just say drop it is too glim it doesn't
• how strong how prominent in consciousness at that time waiting for something to happen
• time sense itself feels stronger to consciousness it's more prominent
• it uh substance give it importance make it stand out to consciousness also needs time to exist in to continue
• no judgment here it's just wrapped up in how consciousness how perception works measurement assessment are fed by
• the most basic building blocks of what we call life or experience consciousness awareness knowing
• awareness knowing consciousness intention and time are also bound up
• known an object to be known which requires consciousness and a sense of time of this moment and
• we can again it's like a tripod you can look at it any any way consciousness knowing requires something to be known
• pendant on this and in a way consciousness is dependent on conceiving of something
• basic terms consciousness requires conceiving of something in the present moment
• path but it is possible and that binding of consciousness and object and time sense even present
• groundlessness of all things consciousness present moment objects all of it