Four Applications Of Mindfulness Retreat 2013 with B. Alan Wallace (part 45)

0:01 In this practice we repeatedly return to the rest point. Mind clear, awareness very present and cognizant, unmoving, ungrasping and not focusing on or being directed to any object. Report an error in the passage at 0:01 Highlight the passage at 0:01

0:24 Recognizing the awareness is already of the very nature of knowing so it doesn't need anything else to know. It can know itself, illuminate itself. So rest in that. Awareness holding its own ground, resting in its own place. Report an error in the passage at 0:24 Highlight the passage at 0:24

1:03 Crucial to recognize. This stillness comes not by trying very hard and grasping firmly to restrain the mind from venturing outwards, but rather from releasing all energy of dispersal, releasing all grasping. It comes from a deepening of relaxation rather than a tightening of effort. Report an error in the passage at 1:03 Highlight the passage at 1:03

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4:57 Then set in motion the oscillation once again. Now Report an error in the passage at 4:57 Highlight the passage at 4:57

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10:38 we pose the second question, and that is whether it's during the phase when we're arousing and inverting the awareness or when we're releasing. Report an error in the passage at 10:38 Highlight the passage at 10:38

10:49 Ask of yourself, throughout the course of this, Do you have a sense of being someone in here who's observing? Report an error in the passage at 10:49 Highlight the passage at 10:49

11:00 Whether or not you're acting, whether or not you're doing anything. Some presence, some entity, some subject in here, really in here, who's observing the whole process. Report an error in the passage at 11:00 Highlight the passage at 11:00

11:16 The agent is observer, discreet, inherently existent. Report an error in the passage at 11:16 Highlight the passage at 11:16

11:26 As you invert your awareness, invert right in upon yourself as the one who is observing or that which is observing, whether it's personal or impersonal, invert your awareness and see what you see. Report an error in the passage at 11:26 Highlight the passage at 11:26

11:43 And then release once again, utterly relaxed, releasing your awareness into space with no object. Report an error in the passage at 11:43 Highlight the passage at 11:43

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14:01 And once again, as you arouse and invert your awareness in upon yourself as the observer, if you do see some appearance that perhaps or at least seems to represent yourself, ask of that appearance. Are you a person? Are you an observer? An agent? Or are you simply an empty appearance, like a holographic image, a reflection in a mirror? Report an error in the passage at 14:01 Highlight the passage at 14:01

14:26 See Report an error in the passage at 14:26 Highlight the passage at 14:26

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21:45 oscillation and just be present. Report an error in the passage at 21:45 Highlight the passage at 21:45