What is this?

From Feelings to Freedom (Exploring Vedana) - (November Solitary) 8 mentions

• just something on the edge of consciousness and sometimes that happens and if it's
• possible and the the pain really does intrude into consciousness and demands attention
• not even human just part of anything with consciousness when there's pleasantness
• the nature of life the nature of consciousness itself the actual nature of consciousness to be
• consciousness itself the actual nature of consciousness to be wrapped up with vader
• the nature of what is the fundamental delusion of of consciousness is believing that things that really exist
• they actually stand out really markedly to the consciousness this is what we're noticing in life pain and pleasure it
• happen happen they actually begin to to fade from consciousness to fade from perception because perception is not

Sila and Soul (Part 4) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 8 mentions

• our desires of what we want to be the case and also of our consciousness so whether we're aware of them or not they
• an existence completely independent of consciousness so remember we've talked in the past
• and its beloved erotic are there more consciousness and its object mind and matter they they participate in each
• complicates takes to another level the division between consciousness and object between subject and object
• sleepy and then you'll just you'll lose consciousness so they were kind of preparing me which sometimes they don't
• in about 10 seconds you're going to lose consciousness and i just instinctively and kind of
• spontaneously said to myself in those seconds of dwindling consciousness meta meta and i put my i put my faith in
• you know if i have that in my consciousness when i die then then that would be a good rebirth or something

Love, Healing, and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 8 mentions

• and the mental formations the consciousness giving it back to the universe giving it back to the universe
• it's probably somewhere in the mental formation can't be in the consciousness it's probably somewhere in the mental
• mindstakes and intentions there all that here consciousness there consciousness here and i begin to
• all that here consciousness there consciousness here and i begin to actually uh
• either case is is the state of consciousness and state of mind state of heart in the present moment when because
• of greed aversion selfing whatever it is the consciousness is small wrapped up in its usual default small little package
• suffering this mind moment this perception consciousness conglomerate of suffering that's what it is that's going
• so so much drifting in and out of consciousness wakefulness so much different backgrounds so much different

Freedom from Fear and Anxiety (Dharma Talk) - (Cambridge Day Retreats) 8 mentions

• begin to take up everything take up all this space and consciousness so really work just taking a step back
• oneself in that way feels oppressive to the consciousness what is actually kind of shrinking the mind constricting the
• long-term habit pattern of consciousness really really important that that aspect of
• eyes and take in the space of the room again when there's fear consciousness shrinks
• the the consciousness in a way follows the vision and and gets gets or gets broader
• attachment to keeping hold of what you know the pristine radiant consciousness there's actually a very very subtle fear
• what am i believing can i bring that to consciousness can i have a look in this bag of assumptions that are often
• by the mind state by the heart state by the mood by the consciousness perception is always being shaped and fabricated

Selflessness and a Life of Love - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) 8 mentions

• is open and and uh receptive but the consciousness is buoyant that means it won't sink when it meets
• but we can see with the movement of consciousness how we reinforce habits of heart and mind how easily we reinforce
• that the very you know i think the the consciousness of a two two and a half year old doesn't can't really make try
• different perception what a swing the range the range of human consciousness the range of the heart and the range of
• constriction around that and some sense of self-consciousness and some sense of blocking of the love
• their the heart can become that the consciousness can become a measure there's many different ways so meta is
• non-grasping the less we grasp the more immeasurable the consciousness becomes
• meaning the stains of the heart of consciousness likewise purifies the object

Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 3 - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) 8 mentions

• not tune into we can kind of just take for granted and lose consciousness of and in our life
• bringing their care into your consciousness and in a way seeing because of the very constancy it's
• sometimes for some for many in fact most probably it's the self-consciousness something comes in in the moment of
• something comes in in the moment of contact and it's self-consciousness and somehow not maybe feeling good enough or
• perhaps even that verbal or conscious the self-consciousness blocks the ability to receive blocks the openness
• and when i have enough self-love that self-consciousness can just it almost it gets
• um again the less the self-consciousness naturally
• begins to be exposed dissolve the whole sense of self-consciousness begins to dissolve and and we're open to receiving

Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions - (Path of the Imaginal) 8 mentions

• this can lead the energy body and the consciousness into the whole range of states of samadhi
• and letting that be there in in the consciousness and letting it have its effect the effects of this poetic idea
• emotionality the whole psyche the whole consciousness so we can gently introduce some
• another as a biological machine and their consciousness my consciousness as just uh what they call an epi
• out of the right combination of matter over time consciousness emerges that's quite a popular view these days if you
• elements those four plus adding space and consciousness and as i said i think
• perception mental formations and consciousness again that can be taken in an in or
• have there consciousness is consciousness body is body

Beyond Impermanence - (New Year Retreat) 8 mentions

• a veil a veil of darkness descends on consciousness and one forgets very shortly after dying one forgets
• appearing and disappearing and what becomes more prominent to consciousness is actually that sense of space
• word unbound unbound the very sense of the consciousness itself begins to be unbound
• binding the appearance of objects to consciousness i know this may sound very abstract right just what i want to do is
• but there's an unbinding of appearances of objects to a perceiving consciousness that whole subject object duality is
• everything unbinds objects time consciousness of the heart all unbound yeah and the other talk i gave some
• this is going on every moment of consciousness there's a push pull push-pull tug of war
• time is really taking on a big it's very loud in consciousness as you let go then something can have

Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 8 mentions

• it's not strictly speaking a state either a state of consciousness or a state of being oftentimes you will hear
• not a state or a space that consciousness opens into strictly speaking
• formations are empty emptiness is metformations consciousness is empty emptiness is consciousness now the
• is metformations consciousness is empty emptiness is consciousness now the second half of each pair emptiness is
• conscious we it's so wound up in the in the way that consciousness works it's not deliberate but we actively
• existence to things that's something that we we do as as consciousnesses and so a thing things all things seem to
• have their own existence is so profoundly woven into consciousness to see that things have have their own
• blocks anywhere either inside the mind or consciousness or in in in anything at all

Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 8 mentions

• characteristics the more likely it is that the consciousness kind of expands and opens up to that uh
• people have a way of finding themselves backing or encouraging the consciousness to open back into that space and in that
• what if i'm identifying with consciousness when i look at something which i usually am and i can assume that
• which i usually am and i can assume that i am identifying with consciousness unless i deliberately
• has vanished and there's just space six one an infinite expanse of consciousness seventh one space goes and it's just
• able to disidentify with the knowing the the consciousness awareness aspect and if you but if you can do that with sound
• cannot get away from that you cannot get away from it as a consciousness you cannot get away from it
• the same last night it doesn't form so strongly in consciousness as a prominent sort of this or that experienced