What is this?

What is 'Insight'? - (New Year Retreat) 11 mentions

• to it sustaining to it without judgment it's just what consciousness does actually
• to impress itself deeply deeply on the consciousness and we begin more and more to be able to live that way
• saw everything as unsatisfactory things come into consciousness any experience anything at all just regard
• could say normal reaction of consciousness is to want to push it away i want to get rid of this headache quite
• dissolve and fade and become less prominent in consciousness something very very interesting happening here
• so the aggregates means the body the emotions the mind consciousness the feeling life thoughts etc be someone who
• as perception such as mental formation such as consciousness such is its origination and such is its
• the more prominent experience is in consciousness i begin to understand how things arise and how they how they fade
• entanglement how big that thing seems in consciousness whatever it is let go a little bit a little bit a little bit and
• more and more that all things including awareness consciousness or mind or whatever you want to call it including
• ignorance that human beings have or that consciousnesses have so let's talk about something extra

The Freedom of No-thing-ness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 11 mentions

• hindrances these five hindrances it's almost like the consciousness the being this is just a metaphor but it's
• perceptions mental formations and consciousness consciousness all of them are actually empty of inherent existence
• its substance substantiality and definition for consciousness so one way of doing this is just to
• about mental emissions that leaves consciousness now we've touched on this a little bit and i'm not going to go so
• touched on it when we thought what would it mean to see consciousness fade and what would that look like or be like
• formations or and intentions does not see consciousness mind or mentality sees reality
• and we're touching this a little bit where does for instance consciousness knowing begin and the perception end of
• or you know we'll go into this more attention and consciousness are they separate or different
• intention to pay attention and consciousness and intention are these all separate things or the same thing
• perceive the walking there's just it's faded from consciousness and depending on on the clinging or the
• just leave it not a problem okay is there still some consciousness there

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

From Insight to Love - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 10 mentions

• expression when the mind the consciousness is not clouded by clinging and ignorance
• constriction of the mind the constriction of consciousness it feels like consciousness kind of shrinks down
• constriction of consciousness it feels like consciousness kind of shrinks down with fear and becomes very small
• and we don't generally like having a small consciousness we enjoy more spacious
• spacious consciousness and so that constricting of the consciousness is also experiences
• consciousness and so that constricting of the consciousness is also experiences unpleasant and there will be a reaction
• physical sensations of fear so that consciousness awareness feels like it's actually more spacious than
• the mind to the body can that consciousness too it's like just a quiet reminder can that be woven into the meta
• this stuff goes on kind of below the radar of consciousness so it's possible there was just a seed of it and another
• anxiety and fear became a habit of of consciousness somehow something slipped into a kind of groove where that was not

True to Your Deepest Desires (Talk and Short Guided Meditation) - (Practising the Jhānas) 10 mentions

• and other states other states of consciousness other you know dimensions are possible when the mind is not
• let's go to uh just a normal consciousness i'm leapfrogging the first genre yeah
• opening up to the sixth genre and this sort of infinite consciousness and the experience there uh just and it
• about that but the experience of an infinite consciousness and it's there and it pervades the cosmos or it's a
• well this is what they're talking about um this is the cosmic consciousness this is
• um attachment to that kind of view let's say this cosmic consciousness this infinite awareness this vast awareness
• quasi sixth john estate of infinite consciousness because once you get to the seventh channel or the eighth genre
• being ultimate real ultimately real cosmic consciousness awareness being the nature of things
• eternal seeming awareness cosmic consciousness whatever it is how did it arise how did it dependently
• person can go in and out of the vastness of awareness or the cosmic consciousness or whatever many times and think yeah my

Visions of the Beyond - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 10 mentions

• whether it's a oneness of awareness a kind of cosmic consciousness or infinite consciousness or universal awareness or
• kind of cosmic consciousness or infinite consciousness or universal awareness or universal love or the universal ocean of
• to the sense of existence to the sense of consciousness but also to the sense of the the
• um psyche or consciousness or the the logos or whatever
• death and the extinction of the consciousness at death um in this view then there's just an
• of prajnia and upaya wisdom which again is this wisdom consciousness this wisdom awareness this gnosis of of a buddha of
• the for the being for the opening of the consciousness there but they there's a finite series and that series moves in
• motivated more by curiosity i'm curious about consciousness and purest about states of consciousness i'm curious
• about consciousness and purest about states of consciousness i'm curious about perception i'm curious about what
• discover new things about consciousness and we might discover new possibilities of perception

The Sense of Self - (Meditation on Emptiness) 10 mentions

• noticing like i said really exposing to very clearly to consciousness the ways we define ourselves the image as the
• is very much at the forefront of our consciousness and very much at the forefront of what we consider important
• individual in the collective consciousness and uh the the the decrease of
• what you might be taking to to be self could be the body or consciousness or this and that is that thing permanent or
• that we're identified with the witness the consciousness the awareness you know there's not nothing of the stories
• granted identification with consciousness and then there's still a sense of self
• three things the body the mind and consciousness we could conceive of the self as being
• say the self is the mind or the self is consciousness so the self as something like that
• it's my mind i possess it or it's my consciousness and when i say conceive i'm going to
• continuum of arising of um consciousness and and experience and and feeling and perception etc and you

Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 10 mentions

• into samadhi to whatever degree it also is moving the consciousness is moving into a deeper state of refinement
• refined the the quality is the texture of consciousness actually becomes more subtle and more
• and in that because of mind the consciousness is more subtle we're actually able to see more subtlety
• but i'm it's generally not the way the consciousness develops expect these waves it's part of the deal
• words they are factors of human consciousness that will arise and said until we are
• in the ocean of of our consciousness as a human being so that's the first thing the second thing
• it's almost as if hindrances are like little seeds and the the consciousness is throwing out these seeds all the time
• to be out there the consciousness is throwing up these seeds with hooks all the time and what
• little bit kind of foggy and the consciousness actually feels like it's a little bit sinking not in a in a way
• contracted and it needs we need to actually open the consciousness out and be a bit more spacious with awareness

The Beauty of Desire (Part 2) - (November Solitary) 9 mentions

• familiar with what it felt like in the being for consciousness to be moving towards or away from something in other
• very subtle subtler and subtler movements of consciousness towards or away from anything the experience would
• be universal because we're dealing with laws of consciousness here the experience would be universal the first
• out to drain out of the experience of the consciousness the more i let go of desire the less suffering
• towards or away from it's impossible it just consciousness doesn't even work that way it's impossible
• and we are research scientists into our subject is consciousness our subject is meditation is existence and also is
• helpful fantasy to have of oneself as a researcher into consciousness and if i put that out and it's like is would that
• um and and this was very much in my consciousness and i was feeling troubled by by all this and sitting to meditate
• body and feelings and perceptions and consciousness and all that here and now some of it will be

Death - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 9 mentions

• repetitions it was actually channeling something out in consciousness which i think really had an effect
• but the intensity of that moment will not be enough to to change consciousness long term this is a general kind of
• from a sense of the potential depths of consciousness what would that be to go through a life
• in one's life nourishing the depths of consciousness in the tradition we talk about samadhi deepening in meditation
• about samadhi deepening in meditation deepening in consciousness and it's exploring that and knowing that in this
• really not there it's really absent the consciousness is really absent something's really gone from a dead body
• that's the material form what about consciousness what about consciousness
• consciousness what about consciousness material form might recycle but what we
• material form might recycle but what we fear is the ending of consciousness someone a while ago told me that when