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Opening the Sense of the Energy Body - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 79 mentions

• okay so uh tonight i want to say a few things about energy body uh
• developing the art um of of the energy body of that kind of awareness of that kind of sensitivity of
• kind of definition if you like what we're calling the energy body we could say we could say it's actually a kind of
• harmonization or whatever it is so that's one aspect of energy body um the felt sense
• say there's one way of defining what we mean by energy body and it's a poise of of awareness it's a poise of being we
• of awareness it's a poise of being we roots are energy body awareness it's the it's the kind of awareness or the kind
• sense because we're chasing some kind of idea too much of the energy body that isn't actually really fruitful so when
• we talk about image and idea as being aspects of the energy body that all these three felt sense image and idea
• time doesn't bear much fruit in terms of the energy body awareness then it's not that helpful
• um sight or sound or other or whatever is censored with the whole energy body so what does that mean for some people
• um the object the other and the self and the sense of the energy body okay so already we're opening up the
• okay so already we're opening up the sense of what we mean by energy body in relationship that you could say that
• in relationship that you could say that energy body is i bring the whole antibody into contact but as i do that i
• i begin to see that actually the sense of the energy body might might begin to include the other
• include the other as if there's a larger energy body kind of a larger sense of energy kind of
• certainly it spreads to one's whole energy body but then that whole energy body comes in is brought into connection
• perceiving but rather that the whole energy body um
• total field so that can vary but this whole energy body um is that is a center of knowing and
• imagine create and discover the whole energy body as an organ of perception and with that
• it is you're sensing the soul um sense it with the whole energy body uh
• mentioned this earlier is that the energy body sense is open to the whole potential range of um perceived um
• flow but let's say a connection is sensed between the energy body and the object
• um of bringing the whole body the whole energy body into the presence of into relationship with another in a dyad with
• hand or hearing happening with the ears rather we sense the whole energy body uh which is
• that we can talk about opening the energy body and what we really mean is opening the idea opening up the range of
• there's another sense in which opening the energy body is actually really quite important but i think for all practice
• person may well need to develop um the energy body awareness and the skill to really allow imaginal
• a person's not used to opening the energy body in the sense of having a lot of energy and
• the sense of having a lot of energy and openness in the sense of the energy body so you know the we can feel the energy
• whole range of having more energy in the energy body or the energy body being opened by having more energy it's just
• piece of their developing the awareness and the skill with the energy body is actually becoming used to having more
• and what this does is it opens and energizes the energy body if you stay with it for a while and sometimes that's
• when there's a lot of energy and openness in the energy body well you know it's hard for the mind not to open
• having more energy the capacity of the energy body uh grows and
• this openness of the energy body which
• which you know the energy body opens and closes all the time it's doing that all
• practicing long breath tends to open the energy body when there's uh craving it tends to contract the energy body and
• energy body when there's uh craving it tends to contract the energy body and when there's eros it tends to open the
• when there's eros it tends to open the energy body etc etc there's many many things uh factors that are important to
• important and influential in in the state of the energy body at any time but the capacity or accessibility or the
• but the capacity or accessibility or the habit even of opening the energy body maybe in the long term
• opening opening you know the the openness the energy body is not divorced from many other factors as i said as i
• radical generosity will open the heart it opens the energy body opens the sense of self
• they're both opennesses samadhi is a state of the energy body being open and a kind of surrendering to
• i'm also surrendering to i'm abandoning myself to i'm opening my energy body to that and letting it fill so this
• actually be much more related to the openness of the energy body and the the unfamiliarity or the
• experience and that kind of thing but this openness the energy body and for example what i'm calling radical
• pinpointing right now coming out of our discussion about opening the energy body and they may be as i said much more
• um a devotional experience will tend to open the energy body generosity will tend to open an energy body and the uh
• open the energy body generosity will tend to open an energy body and the uh potentially the you know one of the
• relation and opening in relationship to the energy body and and the sense of energy there that maybe
• repeat it um the capacity to open the energy body and the being
• um that as i said is related to all this is related this opening the energy body might be related to our capacity to
• overlap between what is what is actually happening in the soul in the energy body there
• i'm just closed my heart is closed i'm a miserable stingy my energy body is closed i'll never feel devotion you know
• this capacity how uh how do i have the capacity to really open the energy body for instance
• so that if there isn't the capacity to open the energy body there might not be the capacity to give oneself in devotion
• constrained by just a habit of for instance the energy body not being open and that limiting them my
• sexuality in the in the broader sense and thus energy body in the broader sense that we're talking about and also
• okay so there's another sense that we can talk about opening the energy body um it meaning opening up
• in particular with regard to the image and the felt sense of the energy body um and
• teachings and the possibilities in this teaching of the energy body so that
• three two of the three components of um of the energy body um but it's a it's another step to then
• so so often when people talk about energy body or subtle body there's either an implicit or explicit or
• um so the sense of the energy body can then be uh we can almost decide to see it uh
• with this you can just decide to see and feel and sense the energy body the very center energy body very sense of energy
• feel and sense the energy body the very center energy body very sense of energy um as imaginal so for instance uh it's
• become fully imaginal that very perception of energy body or perception of energy
• uh we could talk about rather than the energy body you could talk about the imaginal body or the poetic body
• i think in the definition we've given of energy body um there's you know the most normal
• um in in the definition we gave at the beginning of energy body with the three aspects felt sense image and idea that
• experience um of possible energy body experience um
• um so then do we talk about two kinds of um experience and energy body experience an imaginal or poetic body and where
• as words and there's all kinds of difficulties with energy body as a term but um
• a sort of this expansion of the teaching of the energy body to include the image of the body and the idea
• you know if you have enough experience with the energy body as we've been talking about it you may want to
• um it was uh almost all of what she was describing was the energy body experience
• as i was there and she was describing her energy body experience and i was there with that
• so yes the significance and power of the option of sensing the energy body or the energy field between two people or

Healing the Imagination (Q & A) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 61 mentions

• um the awareness of practicing with uh what we've been calling the energy body and you are asked to to review and
• available with that in relation to the energy body and working with it um
• in in a short summary around this just to remind the energy body um when we use that term uh we're
• practice direction of practice and in a way that when we talk about energy body uh as a as a mode of mindfulness of the
• practice feeling the body and sensing the body as energy body the the easier it becomes the more familiar it becomes
• um so for samadhi practice um where we can use the energy body and develop what i'm calling samadhi this
• mind as well deep nourishment can come in so you're using the energy body as something we tune into in an orientation
• um the energy body in the direction of samadhi
• as we asked you to be another area where the energy body is really really really a helpful resource
• whole emotional life so the energy body reflects and expresses what's going on with our
• the sensitivity the attunement of the energy body can be a really really uh part it can be a really really skillful
• uh thirdly the the sensitivity and awareness to the energy body the tuning to that actually proves to be a really
• for example one feels that partly in the energy body it's a way of gauging whether one is on track whether an image
• should come with insight we feel that in the energy body not just in the mind the energy body will reflect it much more
• the energy body not just in the mind the energy body will reflect it much more subtly and much more palpably than than
• um looking right now what the insight was but something the energy body is telling me whatever you're doing it
• said samadhi and other practices um the sensitivity to the energy body will help us know when we're on track
• that feels right i can feel it in the energy body and with matter sometimes the feeling in the energy body itself
• energy body and with matter sometimes the feeling in the energy body itself can become metal be interpreted as meta
• um domain of practice any kind of practice the energy body for me can be really helpful to make central so so
• be done in touch with sensitive to open to aware of attuned to the energy body now
• um as i said we want to have more emphasis on the energy body perhaps more on the cultivating of the samadhi or the
• um feeling guidance towards feeling the energy body in relation to an image or cosmoporosis or whatever
• for practice at any time include never lose touch with the energy body awareness
• any of these practices can move via the energy body from one to another so for example you know all this is repeat
• kinds of things in terms of the soul making and the energy body one realizes for example often that with this image a
• in the texture there of the space of the energy body and if one wants one can then lean more the emphasis of the
• attention into that loveliness of the feeling in the energy body and with the intention of
• certain emotion and again in touch with the energy body and from that emotion maybe it's a difficult emotion perhaps
• emphasizing staying with staying close with the energy body developing the samadhi
• [applause] in a way with the energy body especially in relation to samadhi anything goes
• it's very very creative like so how we can play with the energy body and the image or images potential images of the
• image or images potential images of the energy body for instance visual with colors or lights or lines or
• so as as far as um the energy body is concerned that's the primary thing is the feeling the texture
• of that space in a way you talk about this energy body i mean maybe it's a for some people a
• um than it is about the body per se so when we talk about energy body we're really talking about a way of paying
• flow of energy or whatever so energy body is if you like a way of feeling a way of experiencing a way of
• i sing of i sing about the body electric the energy body the beauty that's there in this sensibility and feeling the body
• um possible experiences of the body this electric body this energy body so icing the body electrica means i sing about
• the body electrica means i sing about that i sing of that energy body and in a way you could also i sing the
• becomes electric the body becomes this energy body the experience of the body becomes that
• this sense of the body of the energy body of an energy body and the penalizing of that perception and the
• so as you practice more and more with the energy body you uh we we recognize and we i'm very skillful and when i look
• experience and the perception of the energy body and the lightness the contractedness the
• memorizing that this experience of the energy body is something that's created it's created
• in them and the way of looking the energy body itself is formed as fashioned is fabricated
• mentioning it now in relation to the energy body so when we do the walking meditation
• um can we again emphasize the energy body so just for now for today
• but can we walk so to speak in the energy body or in that awareness i'm walking in in this bubble or region or
• you to to more fully inhabit and feel the energy body so just go again be sensitive to in the moment what
• and we said can we do it in in the energy body so to speak with sensitive to antibody
• um not in informal movement in your day but but in the energy body sensitive to that what is that possible walking down
• um certainly if you're if you're new to or newer to energy body practice um which
• kind of mindfulness of the body this mindfulness of the energy body well because we're allowing we want to
• um meaning translation is it's a it's a well-being in the energy body and a harmonization of the energy body which
• well-being in the energy body and a harmonization of the energy body which the mind then much more easily settles
• on the freedom on the emotions on the energy body on the soulmaking on the perceptions of self of other of world
• out settled in in that field of harmonized energy body etc now within that current of intention uh towards
• sense of well-being sense of comfort and pleasure in the energy body that's a slightly different priority than for
• being being sensitive to an emotion in the energy body will give birth to images
• soulfulness and soulmaking and the energy body let that guide you um into what you

The Art of Perception - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 61 mentions

• um the awareness of practicing with uh what we've been calling the energy body and you are asked to to review and
• available with that in relation to the energy body and working with it um
• in in a short summary around this just to remind the energy body um when we use that term uh we're
• practice direction of practice and in a way that when we talk about energy body uh as a as a mode of mindfulness of the
• practice feeling the body and sensing the body as energy body the the easier it becomes the more familiar it becomes
• um so for samadhi practice um where we can use the energy body and develop what i'm calling samadhi this
• mind as well deep nourishment can come in so you're using the energy body as something we tune into in an orientation
• um the energy body in the direction of samadhi
• as we asked you to be another area where the energy body is really really really a helpful resource
• whole emotional life so the energy body reflects and expresses what's going on with our
• the sensitivity the attunement of the energy body can be a really really uh part it can be a really really skillful
• uh thirdly the the sensitivity and awareness to the energy body the tuning to that actually proves to be a really
• for example one feels that partly in the energy body it's a way of gauging whether one is on track whether an image
• should come with insight we feel that in the energy body not just in the mind the energy body will reflect it much more
• the energy body not just in the mind the energy body will reflect it much more subtly and much more palpably than than
• um looking right now what the insight was but something the energy body is telling me whatever you're doing it
• said samadhi and other practices um the sensitivity to the energy body will help us know when we're on track
• that feels right i can feel it in the energy body and with matter sometimes the feeling in the energy body itself
• energy body and with matter sometimes the feeling in the energy body itself can become metal be interpreted as meta
• um domain of practice any kind of practice the energy body for me can be really helpful to make central so so
• be done in touch with sensitive to open to aware of attuned to the energy body now
• um as i said we want to have more emphasis on the energy body perhaps more on the cultivating of the samadhi or the
• um feeling guidance towards feeling the energy body in relation to an image or cosmoporosis or whatever
• for practice at any time include never lose touch with the energy body awareness
• any of these practices can move via the energy body from one to another so for example you know all this is repeat
• kinds of things in terms of the soul making and the energy body one realizes for example often that with this image a
• in the texture there of the space of the energy body and if one wants one can then lean more the emphasis of the
• attention into that loveliness of the feeling in the energy body and with the intention of
• certain emotion and again in touch with the energy body and from that emotion maybe it's a difficult emotion perhaps
• emphasizing staying with staying close with the energy body developing the samadhi
• [applause] in a way with the energy body especially in relation to samadhi anything goes
• it's very very creative like so how we can play with the energy body and the image or images potential images of the
• image or images potential images of the energy body for instance visual with colors or lights or lines or
• so as as far as um the energy body is concerned that's the primary thing is the feeling the texture
• of that space in a way you talk about this energy body i mean maybe it's a for some people a
• um than it is about the body per se so when we talk about energy body we're really talking about a way of paying
• flow of energy or whatever so energy body is if you like a way of feeling a way of experiencing a way of
• i sing of i sing about the body electric the energy body the beauty that's there in this sensibility and feeling the body
• um possible experiences of the body this electric body this energy body so icing the body electric i mean i sing about
• the body electric i mean i sing about that i sing of that energy body and in a way you could also i sing the
• becomes electric the body becomes this energy body the experience of the body becomes that
• this sense of the body of the energy body of an energy body and the penalizing of that perception and the
• so as you practice more and more with the energy body you uh we we recognize and we i'm very skillful and when i look
• experience and the perception of the energy body and the lightness the contractedness the
• memorizing that this experience of the energy body is something that's created it's created
• in them and the way of looking the energy body itself is formed as fashioned is fabricated
• mentioning it now in relation to the energy body so when we do the walking meditation
• um can we again emphasize the energy body so just for now for today
• but can we walk so to speak in the energy body or in that awareness i'm walking in in this bubble or region or
• you to to more fully inhabit and feel the energy body so just go again be sensitive to in the moment what
• and we said can we do it in in the energy body so to speak with sensitive to antibody
• um not in informal movement in your day but but in the energy body sensitive to that what is that possible walking down
• um certainly if you're if you're new to or newer to energy body practice um which
• kind of mindfulness of the body this mindfulness of the energy body well because we're allowing we want to
• um meaning translation is it's a it's a well-being in the energy body and a harmonization of the energy body which
• well-being in the energy body and a harmonization of the energy body which the mind then much more easily settles
• on the freedom on the emotions on the energy body on the soulmaking on the perceptions of self of other of world
• out settled in in that field of harmonized energy body etc now within that current of intention uh towards
• sense of well-being sense of comfort and pleasure in the energy body that's a slightly different priority than for
• being being sensitive to an emotion in the energy body will give birth to images
• soulfulness and soulmaking and the energy body let that guide you um into what you

Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 57 mentions

• um what i'm calling the practicing with the energy body um so let's talk a little bit to set
• um the mindfulness of what i'm going to call the energy body the space of of the energy of the body
• become very very familiar to us this way of sensing this energy body very accessible and actually very normal
• mindfulness of the body the mindfulness of the energy body i'm really talking about experience not talking about some
• something like that at all and when i talk about the body the energy body i really mean the whole space actually a
• why why place so much emphasis on this energy body experience and the sensitivity to the whole body energy
• that we can practice relating to this energy body in a certain way which i'll explain go through today
• whole range of experience of the way that energy body feels um well-being starts to permeate to
• remarkable to different degrees it permeates that energy body space restfulness permeates it this is a
• um deepening sensitivity to the energy body and the feel of the energy body
• deepening sensitivity to the energy body and the feel of the energy body um so that this kind of experience of of
• um so that this kind of experience of of an energy body of the energy of the body in that space becomes more and more
• emotions because they reflect in the energy body and also a way of work ways of working with
• um difficult energies or difficult emotions through the energy body so that's a the sensitivity is important
• developing the gradually developing sensitivity to the energy body which we can cultivate in practice
• it turns out that sensitivity to the energy body allows us to pick up on the resonances
• to cause soulmaking sensitivity to energy body as we practice in imaginal work and and in the
• body i don't feel the body and the energy body so it and the sensitivity to the energy
• deepening resource in terms of shaping if you like the energy body now we could easily spend a very long
• this space so awareness is permeating this energy body space and there's a some degree to some depth of a lot of um
• playful with that so we're playing with this experience of the energy body we're playing with the energies if you like
• possibilities of uh tending to uh being aware of the energy body and tending uh to the energy of it as i mentioned
• to stay with this whole body this whole space awareness of the energy body and just stay open keep stretching it
• the energy of the whole space of the energy body can be really really helpful to gently
• keeping this whole energy body in awareness this whole space
• feeling the energy body with the energy of the breath
• noticed with the in-breath that the whole body the whole energy body expands a little they can feel it expanding the
• the whole body is kind of expanding the whole energy body and with the out breath there's a kind of
• and one can just remain sensitive to the whole space the whole energy body and feeling this expansion and contraction
• and again sensitive to the whole space the whole energy body will kind of breath
• again sensitive to the whole space sensitive to the whole energy body but the breath is coming in and out
• what that feels like in the whole space the whole energy body space sensitive
• still keeping this whole body awareness the sensitivity to the whole energy body experience
• in the attention let go of the breath but still with this whole energy body let's play with
• the imagination a little bit with regards to the energy body so is it possible
• within this sensitivity to the whole space of the energy body to imagine a line of energy
• open stretched awareness over the whole energy body the whole space and actually imagining that that whole
• light the whole energy body is really a cloud of light how does that feel
• imagine a body of light that your body your energy body is a body of of light of light energy so this time it actually
• staying with this whole body whole energy body awareness sensitivity just return to whichever felt the easiest or
• being with the with the space of the energy body and sensitive to that perhaps it was with the breath in a
• pervading that space just inhabiting filling that whole space the energy body with this bright
• necessary in terms of this meditation on the energy body to involve the breath attention to the
• started in fact with just this awareness of the energy body of the larger space its tone its vibration its texture its
• with the fuller wider awareness of the energy body making the breath long at first can be very very helpful really i
• anything that's helpful or feeling or imagining the energy body is as an amorphous cloud of light and
• to to sense to become sensitive to the feeling of the energy body and actually to enjoy it a little bit
• one can begin with this whole energy space the energy body and really feel that space and maybe the meta is a
• um into the the feeling the sense of the energy body and similarly you may use visualizations
• or whoever but primary primary is to feel the energy body the energy space sensitive to a whole body as the buddha
• back the whole back of the body and sort of feel the energy body turned around that way whether with the breath
• tuning and awareness sensitizing to the texture of the energy body space and sometimes we won't have a word for that
• negative ones afflictive ones hindrances all this affects the energy body this is part of what we want to investigate i'm
• also quite the possibility as many of you will know that this energy body can feel
• bigger than the whole physical body and uh that's what i call the energy body we're really sensitive to the tone the
• playfully creatively lightly um tending to the energy body and whatever sense of well-being of comfort
• attending playfully creatively experimentally to the energy body and how it feels and tending to

Energy Body: Instructions (1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 57 mentions

• um what i'm calling the practicing with the energy body um so let's talk a little bit to set
• um the mindfulness of what i'm going to call the energy body the space of of the energy of the body
• become very very familiar to us this way of sensing this energy body very accessible and actually very normal
• mindfulness of the body the mindfulness of the energy body i'm really talking about experience not talking about some
• something like that at all and when i talk about the body the energy body i really mean the whole space actually a
• why why place so much emphasis on this energy body experience and the sensitivity to the whole body energy
• that we can practice relating to this energy body in a certain way which i'll explain go through today
• whole range of experience of the way that energy body feels um well-being starts to permeate to
• remarkable to different degrees it permeates that energy body space restfulness permeates it this is a
• um deepening sensitivity to the energy body and the feel of the energy body
• deepening sensitivity to the energy body and the feel of the energy body um so that this kind of experience of of
• um so that this kind of experience of of an energy body of the energy of the body in that space becomes more and more
• emotions because they reflect in the energy body and also a way of work ways of working with
• um difficult energies or difficult emotions through the energy body so that's a the sensitivity is important
• developing the gradually developing sensitivity to the energy body which we can cultivate in practice
• it turns out that sensitivity to the energy body allows us to pick up on the resonances of different images and how
• to cause soulmaking sensitivity to energy body as we practice in imaginal work and and in the
• body i don't feel the body and the energy body so it and the sensitivity to the energy
• deepening resource in terms of shaping if you like the energy body now we could easily spend a very long
• this space so awareness is permeating this energy body space and there's a some degree to some depth of a lot of um
• playful with that so we're playing with this experience of the energy body we're playing with the energies if you like
• possibilities of uh tending to uh being aware of the energy body and tending uh to the energy of it as i mentioned
• to stay with this whole body this whole space awareness of the energy body and just stay open keep stretching it
• the energy of the whole space of the energy body can be really really helpful to gently
• keeping this whole energy body in awareness this whole space
• feeling the energy body with the energy of the breath
• noticed with the in-breath that the whole body the whole energy body expands a little they can feel it expanding the
• the whole body is kind of expanding the whole energy body and with the out breath there's a kind of
• and one can just remain sensitive to the whole space the whole energy body and feeling this expansion and contraction
• and again sensitive to the whole space the whole energy body will kind of breath
• again sensitive to the whole space sensitive to the whole energy body but the breath is coming in and out
• what that feels like in the whole space the whole energy body space sensitive
• still keeping this whole body awareness the sensitivity to the whole energy body experience
• in the attention let go of the breath but still with this whole energy body let's play with
• the imagination a little bit with regards to the energy body so is it possible
• within this sensitivity to the whole space of the energy body to imagine a line of energy
• open stretched awareness over the whole energy body the whole space and actually imagining that that whole
• light the whole energy body is really a cloud of light how does that feel
• imagine a body of light that your body your energy body is a body of of light of light energy so this time it actually
• staying with this whole body whole energy body awareness sensitivity just return to whichever felt the easiest or
• being with the with the space of the energy body and sensitive to that perhaps it was with the breath in a
• pervading that space just inhabiting filling that whole space the energy body with this bright
• necessary in terms of this meditation on the energy body to involve the breath attention to the
• started in fact with just this awareness of the energy body of the larger space its tone its vibration its texture its
• with the fuller wider awareness of the energy body making the breath long at first can be very very helpful really i
• anything that's helpful or feeling or imagining the energy body is as an amorphous cloud of light and
• to to sense to become sensitive to the feeling of the energy body and actually to enjoy it a little bit
• one can begin with this whole energy space the energy body and really feel that space and maybe the meta is a
• um into the the feeling the sense of the energy body and similarly you may use visualizations
• or whoever but primary primary is to feel the energy body the energy space sensitive to a whole body as the buddha
• back the whole back of the body and sort of feel the energy body turned around that way whether with the breath
• tuning and awareness sensitizing to the texture of the energy body space and sometimes we won't have a word for that
• negative ones afflictive ones hindrances all this affects the energy body this is part of what we want to investigate i'm
• also quite the possibility as many of you will know that this energy body can feel
• bigger than the whole physical body and uh that's what i call the energy body we're really sensitive to the tone the
• playfully creatively lightly um tending to the energy body and whatever sense of well-being of comfort
• attending playfully creatively experimentally to the energy body and how it feels and tending to

The Imaginal-Energy Body (Q & A) - (Roots into the Ground of Soul) 56 mentions

• and if the whole week is spent on if the whole week is spent on the energy body great if the whole week is spent on the
• great if the whole week is spent on the energy body um around emotions fantastic it's one
• um one question here is uh pretty direct what is the energy body um so
• and say what is the body let's leave the word energy body for a start what is the body and what is it to
• right when we start talking about energy body we're just saying let's take those three
• when i first started teaching about energy body was really more about that felt sense and i gave it the words
• felt sense and i gave it the words energy body and subtle body to kind of help encourage the range of experience
• a little while ago the imaginal body or the energy body um sorry the imaginal body or the poetic
• in and used to but i'm not limiting it to that so in a way the energy body is really an attitude more than an
• why rob mentioned before he wished he had called energy body by a different name what would he have called it
• will open up through this path with the way we're talking about the energy body where we're talking about imaginal and
• other reason is just what i just said i use the word energy body and subtle body originally because because it was
• so back to where i said before so we could talk about this energy body is really energy body awareness or it's a
• could talk about this energy body is really energy body awareness or it's a kind of poise of the attention a kind of
• so it's weird it sounds like it's a thing the energy body it must be a certain experience no really it's more
• hearing attention more delicate yeah something similar with the energy body there's a kind of poise that needs to be
• does that make any sense yeah so when we say energy body um
• okay so how has your experience of the energy body deepened over time and or examples of how shifting experience the
• examples of how shifting experience the energy body shifted the range of image um
• on what i said before when i started um with the energy body i i i i think i learned it from adjun jeff
• a possibility so there's a somehow my energy body is over there flying or turning cartwheels in joy or whatever it
• and when we talk about opening up the energy body experience there's all kinds of possibilities
• so that was one reason for keeping the the word energy body um
• maybe that's enough on that um how does energy body relate to concept of aura a-u-r-a
• tending away from the reification so energy body is an experience that's created discovered in the moment and is
• can feel what's happening in in the other person's energy body somewhere or we can but um some people are more
• conceptions limit people's experience of the energy body um well one of them is just for instance
• been taught a certain system of this is the energy body it looks like this it's this this is in this place and that's in
• ergy body collapses how do i discern between constriction of the energy body or a change or shift or a change or
• they both the same i'll read it again when the energy body collapses how do i discern between
• collapses how do i discern between constriction of the energy body or a change or shift of my way of perception
• um so the energy body is not a certain experience
• um i can sit here and be aware of the energy body and report that it feels uh um
• whatever it is and i'm still aware of the energy body if i make my awareness big so there's a difference between the
• may be completely conventional at that time then my energy body awareness is is open that's all i have to do so it's not
• see so that what the actual experience is in the energy body depends on the kind of attention i give it it's not
• [music] you have mentioned the energy body can feel twisted or negative i only feel it
• that's connected to what we just talked about in other words the energy body is not just this kind of experience or that
• will notice that happen in the energy body and and that's what the energy body is at that time that's what it feels
• read from a contracted or expanded energy body in the face of the other person or event or whatever is
• read from a contracted or expanded energy body in the face of the other person
• balance of attention toeness practices and also the energy body so um when the energy body is contracted it
• and also the energy body so um when the energy body is contracted it means there's some clinging
• when there's eros rather than craving the energy body tends to open and tends to harmonization and more ease and more
• right track in my practice is by the read of the energy body if i'm going for samadhi the energy body
• read of the energy body if i'm going for samadhi the energy body tells me whatever i've just done i've
• or whatever and then i noticed that can my energy body contract okay that's telling me maybe what i've just done
• information i can read from a contracted or expanded energy body where is my joy where whereas uh where where are the
• all right i have noticed that my energy body has a dark side and a light side changing at
• the when with the heart's desire in the energy body can you say something about this
• foreign i sort of think energy body plus the presence of the aspects of the lattice
• meditation is soulmaking practice energy body plus the presence of the aspects of the of the elements of the
• imaginal what are your thoughts on energy body and presence of the elements of of the
• could you say something about the possibility of letting the energy body move towards or move into jannah
• various kinds of images seemed to tend to lead the energy body towards different genres soulful sexual
• more to this sort of amorphous unformed experience of of energy body or light or that kind of thing yeah but you don't

Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 51 mentions

• body and particularly as we said of the energy body so we've really put a lot of emphasis on there there's mindfulness of
• the relation of the bird song and the text and the body and the energy body and nature itself the exact
• the emotional resonances and the resonances in the energy body that an image
• um uh connecting with the emotional uh resonances and the energy body resonances so there's never an exclusive
• emotion that arises with this image or the energy and the energy body that arises or both the mixture of that is
• lot of joy or a certain quality and let's say softening in the energy body and one extreme is to almost
• tune more and more into that emotion or that energy in the energy body that quality and just give go towards give
• certainly the energy resonances in the energy body and the way that feels and as i said this is really important
• um ongoing sensitivity to the emotional energy body resonances help us to navigate
• um emotional and energetic resonances in the energy body help us to recognize when an image is let's say right if this
• direction is through its effects on the energy body the energy body uh as i'll outline right now it tells us almost
• vertical axis through through the body through the energy body it feels more aligned there's a sense of something
• it's a signal that we're on the right track the energy body is telling us we're on the right track here with
• when that alignment of the vertical axis in the energy body is very strong it tends towards also the kind of
• but this aligners felt alignment of the vertical axis in the energy bodies is is one of the sort of cues and clues if you
• a second is just the um sense that the energy body kind of opens and expands a little bit
• third can be a kind of softening of the energy body um
• i mean that may happen but again i'm really talking about energy body rather more than anatomical body and the
• texture if you like or the tone of that energy body um can
• a fourth uh is is generally speaking the energizing of the energy body and when when when an image is again so
• to speak right for the psyche for the soul that the energy body will feel energized very often
• is often a key uh aspect of what happens in the energy body when an image is is you know important let's say
• feeling of power vitality force in into the whole being into the energy body but into the whole psyche as well brings or
• may doesn't have to but it may fill the whole energy body it may wave through it may sometimes erupt very suddenly in the
• may sometimes erupt very suddenly in the energy body and through even into the physical body so that sometimes one
• degree of increase in in the sense of well-being in the energy body um or even bliss and again this this can
• but what we're doing here is really trusting the energy body rather than the mind's initial sort of
• what's weird and what's not we're actually trusting more the energy body and and the manifestations in the energy
• uh the sixth is um a possibility through the energy body something to look out for and notice and
• the whole energy field the whole energy space of the energy body harmonization it feels more harmonized and it feels
• like it's spread more evenly through the energy body oftentimes or can do but also that includes a homogenization
• of the awareness through the space of the energy body in other words so often perhaps it's our culture perhaps it's
• the awareness through the space of the energy body so that generally speaking the body and
• backgrounds in practice let's say um is the contoured energy body can be felt so when we talk briefly
• um and sometimes even see or fear an energy body separate in space distinct in space from the physical
• or the chair meditating and that contoured energy body this body of light or energy is felt i actually felt not
• feeling um two energy bodies at once or a mixture there's this one sitting here
• mixture there's this one sitting here and in in this energy body i somehow feel this contoured energy body
• and in in this energy body i somehow feel this contoured energy body um as i said flying or turning some
• or rather often implicit in in them is that the energy body uh time then has within it one can feel
• frequencies of energy if we use that term are present within the energy body i may not have a word again i may not
• navigation is the noticing of what's happening in the energy body and then we can decide
• with the consciousness and the whole energy body suppose there's one one thing i should
• more the sensitivity of mindfulness in in relationship to the energy body and working with the energy body
• in relationship to the energy body and working with the energy body so generally that's a really good idea
• it might seem weird or whatever um coming through the energy body through the manifestations in the energy
• um thread or keeping as a basis the energy body allows so much other possibility in meditation so if
• um regarding the emotional resonances and the energy body resonances then a fifth
• spoken about um in emotion and in the energy body and in the so to speak the psychic
• um imagining your energy body mimicking the movement in the body of the imaginal
• them to dance in that way feel that in the energy body and that helps us enter

The Energy Body (A Little Bit of What, Why, and How) - (Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma) 47 mentions

• under an hour hopefully um is the uh this word the energy body that you've heard about and i just want to
• kind of slightly regret this term already uh the energy body uh it got coined in my mind somehow
• come into a meditation posture and at first with the energy body posture is actually quite important it will help
• letting the energy open up the sense of the energy body okay so i'm moving very quickly here
• happens if you imagine this space that we're calling the energy body a little bit bigger than your physical body that
• matter loving kindness the energy body as radiant meta source of matter
• things up or get a sense of it the energy body will also um if you like express or reflect the
• reason we'll talk about it more tomorrow for emphasizing the energy bodies it's a really good place to become aware of and
• contractions it's all just part of the everyday life of the energy body absolutely
• in absorption is basically a state of the energy body it's basically that's what the experience is and one is fused
• it will also be indicative this kind of paying attention to the energy body what we're calling the energy body will be
• paying attention to the energy body what we're calling the energy body will be extremely helpful in insight practices
• to let go right here right now you feel it in the energy body it's reflected in the energy body so it tells me oh what
• it in the energy body it's reflected in the energy body so it tells me oh what i'm doing right now this way of looking
• if i have cravings and i bring the whole energy body awareness it can help the craving become eros
• can feel that doing something and i trust it so so the energy body has sensitivity that's a helpful indicator
• um very quickly it's reflected in in the energy body that comes a kind of coherence a harmonization and
• you you it has an immediate effect on the energy body and also the mind if the mind is a bit
• paying attention in this way to the field to the energy body helps helps supports the imaginal
• and also the imaginal opens up the energy body and helps the energy body they feed each other
• discover images can also arise through the energy body rather than the image being something there that i am looking
• soulmaking with it and at the same time there's a sense of well the energy body feels quite nice here it feels nice and
• lean over to emphasizing more the feeling of the energy body actually put more weight there and let the image
• good feeling and well-being in the energy body then i'm going more in the samadhi direction
• noticing and being aware of how the energy body feels but the image and the soulmaking sense with the image is
• it births together with it a sense of nice energy and in the energy body and then instead of just melting into
• interrelated aspects to it um so again energy body is means um a kind of poise of attention a kind
• part of the whole what we talk about energy body but it's not a limiting conceiving so within that you can have
• there is huge and what i really want to encourage when we say energy body now what we mean is the opening of that
• nice nugget of a term someone can come up with uh let's say energy body for now someone asked me a couple of them a few
• someone asked me a couple of them a few months ago you talk about energy body and it's great and i really like it etc
• with age etc i would like to say that when we use the word energy body the experience we have of body is dependent
• way of looking so we're not talking about energy body as some kind of independently existing objective reality
• when when i first introduced this term energy body it was really trying to help people towards the samadhi and so and
• etheric open senses very light tingly and that sort of thing so energy body is quite helpful for that pointing in that
• were wheezing uh and healing and weaving my energy body that's a particular kind of idea it's a
• exquisite list of man exquisite tender healing this is all energy body image kind of beginning to amalgamate concepts
• agreement we look for a group who sees this energy body experience like i do he's got these chakras i've got this
• as much as they could um certainly with the energy body but also with the imagine on the soulmaking
• consciously it's an element of the energy body experience so yes
• the purpose of practicing with the energy body is not to try and kind of achieve a state where
• to try and kind of achieve a state where the energy body always feels open and harmonized and nice and
• um this this kind of practicing with the energy body or imaginal practice or emptiness practice i would say or um
• we have of this practice healing getting my energy body just right whatever it is it will expand that
• and then the skills to work with the energy body and open up things and that sort of thing
• the intention for samadhi for well-being so it's working with the energy body as primary but what the real kind of gentle
• you'll notice that there's the sense in the energy body of the harmonization etc that comes with something when it's

Energy Body: Instructions (2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 45 mentions

• since i already mentioned this work with the energy body practicing directly with the energy body
• the energy body practicing directly with the energy body developing the sensitivity and the skill
• development of skill with with the energy body can continue to develop through our life because
• a sensitivity and skill with regard to the energy body will offer all kinds of tools all kinds of support
• of samadhi states as as they go deeper are are really states of the energy body they are openings and energizations and
• they are openings and energizations and particular ways the energy body feels and the mind feels within that in
• and the mind feels within that in harmony with the energy body but and so using the energy body to
• harmony with the energy body but and so using the energy body to start with as a way in to develop some
• and developing somebody so working with the energy body really part of the purpose is that over there is for the
• capacity and skill developed with the energy body will also enable us in different ways to work with difficult
• in fact uh giving attention to the energy body and developing that sensitivity
• sensitivity and an awareness of the whole energy body and really include that as something that's basic and
• meta and to really have the sense of the whole energy body as as a basis as the kind of foundation
• the sensitivity the um awareness of the energy body and the inclusion of the feeling of a whole
• inclusion of the feeling of a whole energy body really really helpful indispensable for navigating
• are really really helped by using the stay in contact with the energy body and being sensitive there and again it keeps
• uh practices focused primarily on the energy body for example somalis we've already talked about and what i want at
• second practice around emotional awareness with the energy body they want to talk about today moving back and
• forth between those practices with it directly with the energy body on one hand and more direct imaginal practice
• even that imaginal practice is always tied in with the energy body so no one is probably going to sit or probably
• to encourage the back and forth focusing on the energy body either for cultivating the samadhi or for just the
• or i hope you will spend more time uh directly with the energy body than with imaginal practices again i'll talk more
• central it is uh the practice with the energy body so i'll keep referring to it i'll keep adding little bits to our work
• and different aspects of practicing with the energy body so this morning what i wanted to really
• talk about mostly is emotional awareness via the energy body and what do we mean by emotion well
• state of the awareness and a state of the energy body both so an emotion includes both the the
• consciousness but also the state of the energy body and that together make that those two that the mind and the body the
• those two that the mind and the body the energy body make up uh or rather form two aspects
• direction to to tend to that well-being and cultivate that in the energy body and now today and i mentioned some of
• um pleasant or unpleasant but manifests in the energy body and we said
• practice and the whole body the whole space of the energy body forms the background
• background i'm still aware of the whole energy body space so what do we what do we want to do with
• um samadhi and the skill with the the body space energy and the energy body that can become over time it becomes
• actually attending to uh emotion directly in the energy body mostly on that midline let's say for now
• awareness of but in regard to difficult emotions in the energy body the key element the key element uh in in what's
• in regards to both um working with the energy body and the samadhi or this attention to emotions or
• um the tuning of the attention so with the energy body and the energy space um we can realize i can tune to this
• particular quality let's say of softness in the energy body or this particular frequency of energy
• quality of frequency of warmth within the energy body it's but when we're doing the second practice
• attend to the comfort or well-being in in the energy body playing with it in different ways
• and this attention to the emotions in the energy body they also fluidly move between each other
• image on the energy body so this image comes in how does it affect and make the
• in how does it affect and make the energy body feel and how does it affect the emotion
• and it might be that something lovely comes in the energy body might be um or the emotion then we can open to
• really notice their effects on their energy body and the emotion okay

Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 1) - (Vajra Music) 44 mentions

• and i remember just saying something about the energy body and devotion and and throwing something out and intending
• a meditation with body and devotion and energy body etc but again how many people will actually take that out and
• exercise number one can be done either physically or just in the energy body and the imagination without the physical
• between these two possibilities physical body or just energy body there isn't an order i don't i don't think there's an
• okay so two large cams with physical and just the energy body also then starting in four postures so
• it just already proliferating variation so it could just in the energy body standing okay and then or physical
• one category whether it's physical whether it's just energy body the second category which of the four postures
• the first one is you adopt your starting posture and you feel the energy body so let's say it's standing your dog the
• standing posture and you feel your energy body in that posture and then you feel or imagine the energy
• and this isn't something we would always want to do with the energy body at all usually we talk about energy weight just
• primarily kinesthetic imagination you're feeling imagining your energy body extending to fill the room and touch the
• intention here is sensitivity to the energy body and in this case also and the projected or expanded energy body
• energy body and in this case also and the projected or expanded energy body and the space you're in so really
• feeling a sense of sensitivity to the energy body sensitivity to the expanded energy body and the kind of inhabiting
• energy body sensitivity to the expanded energy body and the kind of inhabiting or filling of the space you're in that's
• you've expanded and you're feeling that you've extended the energy body and you're feeling that
• way you want and feel your energy body and feel and again sense imagine
• of awareness okay that's a different practice we're talking about energy body sense
• imagining the um not just the space the energy body in its usual size but also
• can be done just in the imagination with the energy body there's no obvious physical movement there
• possibilities in there the intention is the sensitivity to the energy body in this in the usual size sense but also to
• the much more projected uh the larger size the projected expanded energy body and the whole sense if you like of the
• space that you're in and of inhabiting filling that space with the energy body letting the energy body project
• filling that space with the energy body letting the energy body project fill that space
• a sound and uh and and feeling that in the energy body so with image and energy body sense
• the energy body so with image and energy body sense there's not a physical sound and neither
• um you're you're still feeling your whole energy body as we do pretty much any practice feeling the whole energy
• body as at least a background you've still got there that whole energy body awareness
• pelvic bone right down to your perineum and you've got the whole energy body awareness and then you notice where the
• and legs as well can it come from the whole energy body again usually energy body is bigger than
• can it come from the whole energy body again usually energy body is bigger than a physical body a little bit
• second one which is can i have the sense of the whole energy body emanating again this is something i'm almost
• have a kinesthetic imagination a felt sense of the whole energy body which again means a little bit bigger than the
• again means a little bit bigger than the physical body the whole energy body emanating that sound
• can the sound that you're making and the sense of the energy body be feel like they're mixed together to
• and an oral sense as well of the sound and the energy body mixed together almost hard to tell the almost
• palpably the same thing sound is the energy body is vibration the vibration is the sound the energy
• um we've got this awareness of the energy body as usual and we've got the awareness of the sound of course
• waves in air but what is it to have the energy body awareness to have the awareness of the
• have this sense of filling the space of projecting with the energy body and the sound and letting it feel letting it
• with sound or just with the imagination in the energy body extended tones doesn't matter what
• the vibration the resonance and the energy body become mixed like water and milk
• milky water fourth part and with the energy body and the awareness and the sound awareness
• the awareness and the sound awareness the awareness the energy body and the awareness of sound can we also