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Mindful Path from Awareness to Samadhi
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The talk explores the distinction between awareness and consciousness, emphasizing that awareness initially lacks words and is later conceptualized through language. The practice of mindfulness, serving as a bridge between awareness and consciousness, facilitates the navigation between named and unnamed experiences. Additionally, the concept of one-pointedness is discussed as an exercise to foster concentration, which is foundational to achieving the state of samadhi, or a field of mind that transcends discursive thought.
Referenced Concepts and Practices:
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Mindfulness: A practice that involves an interaction between awareness and consciousness, highlighting the use of both to understand named and unnamed experiences.
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One-Pointedness: A yogic concentration technique where the mind focuses on a singular object, eventually leading to samadhi, or a concentrated state of mind.
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Samadhi: A concept described as the resting of the mind within itself, beyond discursive thinking, as a result of sustained concentration on a singular object.
These concepts are central to deepening one's understanding of inner seeing and mindfulness within the philosophical framework discussed.
AI Suggested Title: Mindful Path from Awareness to Samadhi
And it is something which gives information about the world. It's connected to language. And it's that what is perceived is related to or connected with concepts, is conceptualized. And then the question was raised whether awareness also is used to make connection with the world and to get information about the world, whether there's connection between, yeah? And the difference between awareness and consciousness might be, or we came up with the idea that that awareness first is without any words.
[01:12]
So that there are impressions which only afterwards are connected with concepts and with language. And then we came to the, we discussed the practice of mindfulness. And that the practice of mindfulness encompasses that one deals with objects which are named and also with objects which are not named in the beginning, but afterwards can be named. And thus, awareness as well as consciousness are instruments to arrive at mindfulness.
[02:42]
And these two things supplement each other in a way that one makes like a pendulum, a movement between consciousness and awareness. So that the awareness informs you that the name is not sufficiently named. And that one rests in awareness as long as one can find, until one can find a name which would fit.
[04:12]
Ah, and then you are again in consciousness until the moment where you have the feeling that it's not enough, it doesn't, the names don't stick anymore, and then you can... Okay. This is great, I can retire. You can be those who continue. Yeah, I'll still come back next year, though, if you'll help me. And these two groups had professional reporters. Yeah, we... We can publish them and send. Did you ask? Did they send them? I can see. They sent them here. Okay, let's see. We have to stop. Now these are hard acts to follow.
[05:35]
The rest of your group, that's how you're going to manage. You'll be up burning the midnight oil writing reports. Wow. Okay. Let me just show you my little exercise about one-pointedness. You've all heard this, but maybe it's okay to hear it again. If I bring this stick up, you can have a stick arising mind. Concentrate on it. If you concentrate on the stick.
[06:38]
Then as you know, we talk about one-pointedness. The mind, you have to keep making an effort to concentrate. You have to bring the mind back to it. After a while, it's easy to bring the mind back. It's easy to return to the counting of the breaths. And you get past one. Sometimes you're three or eight. And after a while, mind stays, comes back by itself. And then mind can rest off. That's a basic yogic skill.
[07:45]
To really get it takes a few years. That your mind just rests where you put it. And it doesn't get distracted. And you have the feeling of not needing anything. Just now is really enough. You don't have to turn the radio on. You don't have to have a drink. You don't have to do anything. It's quite satisfying. Your mind just rests like the water without waves. Okay. So say that your mind is concentrated on this. What's the object of concentration now?
[08:50]
The object of concentration now is is the field of mind itself. So now mind rests in itself and you can call that one definition of samadhi. Now the one pointedness of mind has become a field of mind. So a field of mind is the fruit of one pointedness. And now you can bring the stick back into the field of mind.
[09:54]
And stay concentrated. And now you can observe this from the field of mind. Which is not the discursive mind. So we can say that the learning to One pointedness is schematical. And to know the world through the field of mind is the basama. The continuous seeing of uniqueness. We could say insight. In a deep sense by insight. Inner seeing. Yeah, and we can say that bringing the effort back to the stick is
[10:57]
the activity of consciousness. The more that becomes intentional mind, this activity of consciousness shifts into awareness. And now this field of mind, the knowing aspect of it is awareness. And that field of mind is always present. And in the night time. At all times it's present. If we can peer through the suds of consciousness. The always presentness of it.
[12:10]
Yeah, maybe that's something. forget tomorrow. Thank you very much. Can I ring the bell just because I'd like to hear it? You don't have to meditate, just stop. You don't have to meditate, just stop.
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