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Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2- The Ending of the World -... 12 mentions

• bring it out to we draw that polarity out to consciousness by our reactivity pushing away the pole that we don't like
• so we actually notice noise more it becomes more prominent to consciousness tiredness or brightness of mind again
• drawn out and stands becomes more prominent to the consciousness based on that
• on clinging is the definition of things to consciousness this kind of we see that when when we relax the clinging
• talked about the identification with consciousness being a subtle level of appropriation of
• possibility of letting go of identification with consciousness it's much more subtle
• and delusion in the moment the object of consciousness gets less get fades blurs dissolves
• oftentimes for instance there's an identification with consciousness because that's a subtle level of
• he comes to the point where he arrives at consciousness depends on name of form name and form is dependent on
• name and form is dependent on consciousness that mutuality that's the point where he says that was it
• and the appearance of a certain object in consciousness so boredom tiredness uh anger they're
• appearance of things it's an appearance of things to consciousness as perception is empty

The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 12 mentions

• solid more separate more of an issue more prominent in consciousness to the degree that i am craving
• just this present moment nothing else going on but the consciousness and the object and a present moment that's still
• i am this mind or i am this consciousness or that is my body or this is my emotion or whatever and i start to
• my knees or whatever and i'm saying and maybe even the consciousness that knows this fade you know this unpleasant vader
• um sense of subject just a sense of consciousness a momentary consciousness or a vast
• much less fabricated than our normal sense of consciousness or awareness but still a fabrication empty
• into a more normal state of consciousness so right there is a segment of this spectrum of fabrication
• more uh more real more dense all of that more normal state of consciousness still the sense of self very real etc but less
• known through a normal state of consciousness so there are little spectrum and papancha one extreme end
• spectrum and papancha one extreme end the normal state of consciousness if you like every day walking around and then
• process of events consciousness and perception and vadana and all that and i believe that level of
• emptiness of everything self of the mind of consciousness awareness whatever word you want to use

Question and Answer Session 2 - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 12 mentions

• sometime there's a sense uh what happens is the consciousness constricts around it and that creates pressure it's just
• um i had the experience of unbounded consciousness and and then the intermittent thought oh
• interestingly um it's not a space of consciousness it's not state i would actually say in
• thing inside outside cells others worlds states of consciousness all of that and as i start to do that
• um the consciousness starts to change in other words
• and independently existing it tends to create a certain consciousness in my mind that this is the ones we're usually
• empty this is empty what happens is the consciousness opens up and something like i mean there's lots of different
• experiences that one can have but something like consciousness opening up very wide and becoming unbounded or
• degree of spaciousness comes into the consciousness no understand what's that success
• out their emptiness the emptiness as i let go more and the consciousness opens out the emptiness of things becomes more
• self and even less self so you're a customizing the consciousness to state of emptiness
• that's that's just normal and natural and part of the way that consciousness deepens

Love, Karma, and Healing - (Meditation on Emptiness) 12 mentions

• other also begins to to quiet to become lighter in the consciousness and with that comes love i mean you
• present moment you've got it right there in the consciousness right in front and and you're quite intense in in the lens
• you know constellations in the energy system and the consciousness will come about or not
• into death just just just give it back give back the consciousness give back the thoughts give back the emotions give
• so this this this delusion is going to be very deeply entwined in consciousness and it's it's our job as practitioners
• or am i angry at that intention or that knowing that consciousness or that that vader that perception what exactly
• kinds of mental formations here there's knowing there consciousnesses and this consciousness is here
• knowing there consciousnesses and this consciousness is here and what was held in place by this
• trauma is being released into consciousness through the psychophysical system through the body through the mind
• difficult is coming up into consciousness seemingly out of the hello can i hold it do i know how to hold it
• present moment the present moment actually doesn't arise in consciousness one moves beyond the conventional world
• so you can't have vadina perceptions consciousness etc without an outer world to perceive in

Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1) - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 12 mentions

• my awareness my consciousness yep
• i mean in in is that in my um which consciousness is that which consciousness is that how do you
• which consciousness is that which consciousness is that how do you mean with which country is it personal
• universal and that was universal consciousness transmission
• you know certainly we can see my individual consciousness when i think x it colors the meta like this when i drop
• um that the the sense is not so much of a separate consciousness here and a separate consciousness that all begins
• a separate consciousness here and a separate consciousness that all begins going into oneness and then
• so you understand that the mind is different the consciousness is different i start to see everything differently
• brings well-being kindness opens the heart and the consciousness it softens things it does all kinds of good stuff
• that goes with the nature of consciousness it's not even just human actually it's
• it's not even just human actually it's it goes with consciousness when there's difficulty there tends to be aversion
• pouring gas in on the fire the consciousness have you noticed this with physical pain or fear or something

No Self, No World - (IMS Forest Refuge) 11 mentions

• self in the sense of it's in a cosmic consciousness or it's in awareness or in god or in the self with a capital s or
• or are they in the self and also with consciousness which is the most most subtle one also with
• most most subtle one also with consciousness so this is really important again it
• perceptions mental formations or consciousness in that way in any of those ways does not regard
• experience because it includes consciousness and actually see it as not me not mine in the moment learn practice
• openings in practice openings of consciousness that we want to explore want to get to know want to stay with
• the witness identify with the watcher or awareness or consciousness or whatever we might call it and might give it
• and i'm in a more ordinary state of consciousness and i see oh everything's just a bit more it's not like something
• just a bit more it's not like something is completely prominent in consciousness and being obsessed about and really loud
• to actually let go of all the algorithms not even identified with consciousness very subtle hooking of identification i
• subject that knows an object consciousness and an object one sees that that is built as well awareness too

The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 2) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 11 mentions

• adopting this or that way of looking the consciousness the and the conceptual frame of conception or none of that
• fabrication of perception so subject and object consciousness and appearance
• of um self and awareness and consciousness and mind and way of looking in in what
• um in our phenomenal world in the normal state of consciousness and make sense of what is seems
• angles at certain times for the most part in our usual state of consciousness and understanding and so it will just
• what the nature of the reality is that in our normal state of consciousness normal state of understanding we cannot
• idea gains substance and power in the consciousness in the soul so in their relationship with our
• mind and matter how does consciousness can how does consciousness meet matter
• how does consciousness can how does consciousness meet matter how does consciousness know about matter
• can how does consciousness meet matter how does consciousness know about matter how is there this quantum leap between
• we're approaching it but we can expand our the consciousness of our motivations

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) - (Path of the Imaginal) 11 mentions

• just a sort of bare moment of consciousness or a vast awareness or something like that embracing all things
• positive affirmation as a kind of consciousness different than our usual consciousness
• consciousness different than our usual consciousness um transcendent and without object and
• without support and not of time etc consciousness without attribute without feature uh
• different versions and there's cosmic consciousness and sixth genre different variations of the
• exploring that so the cosmic consciousness is is relatively [music]
• completely or to largely towards this consciousness without attribute that the buddha sometimes uses as a phrase to
• unfabricates there's an unfabricated awareness or consciousness there very different than our usual consciousness
• awareness or consciousness there very different than our usual consciousness and not the kind of vast awareness that
• separate from the subject from from me and my consciousness either it's real in that way the meaningfulness of my life
• inherent existence not independent of the consciousness and yet it still has validity because i'm not falling into

What is 'Insight'? - (IMS Forest Refuge) 11 mentions

• know the power of generosity to open the heart to open the consciousness to start um
• kind of one-off thing it bursts into consciousness i see it and then that's it my life has changed from that and i
• judgment here it's just a quality of being an unenlightened consciousness there's always something that's adding
• so normally whether we're aware of it or not our consciousness is always appropriating things this sensation is
• am this mind state i am this mind i am this consciousness we're learning to practice a mode of
• disidentify with body than it is with say consciousness but eventually one can learn to let go
• but eventually one can learn to let go of the identification with consciousness it's not me that's being aware there is
• formations thoughts and mind states and intentions and tears down consciousness dissolves it scatters it
• feeling such is perception or etc to consciousness such is its origination and such it's fading meaning the such
• experience itself and the more prominent in consciousness and the less than the experience itself gets less it
• granted is the mind or awareness or consciousness or space or time all of that actually is is built in this way

Heart Work - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) 11 mentions

• dropping that in in a gentle tone of voice whatever i drop into consciousness will ripple out and have an effect
• what that can do basically is open the consciousness and open the heart and when the heart opens and when the
• and when the heart opens and when the consciousness opens automatically inevitably the suffering
• gets less heart opens consciousness opens softening less heart closes
• softening less heart closes consciousness closes softening more this is a law of consciousness it's a law of
• consciousness closes softening more this is a law of consciousness it's a law of the heart
• so quick so quick below the radar of consciousness though interesting and something in a
• anything just allowing everything in consciousness in awareness and that very allowing
• incredibly powerful and deep uh in in the realm of our consciousness intentions are central
• investment in intention on my consciousness and and the whole unfolding of my existence that comes out
• the groove of the whole consciousness the whole brain but it remains plastic till the day we