Awareness
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Awareness along with mindfulness are two common technical terms to describe meditation practices as well as capacities of mind that are key to a contemplative path.
In terms of meditation practices, some techniques tend to cultivate or emphasize focused attention on an object of meditation and developing stability. In Shambhala those are more described as mindfulness practices. Other meditation techniques cultivate an awareness of surroundings or of what's occurring concurrent with the object of meditation. Those are usually described as forms of vipashyana practice. Though that usage of the word vipashyana is atypical, and really is suggesting that developing awareness (as opposed to one pointed focus) is what leads one to developing the capacity for vipashyana.
The Tibetan term trenpa refers to the aspect of mind that can remain focused on an object of meditation, and the Tibetan term sheshin refers to the minds ability to know what it is doing at any point in time. The latter term is more associated with awareness. It is a kind of "air traffic control" of the mind, and it is the aspect of mind that notices with the mind has wandered away from the object of meditation. This ability for mind to know what it is doing is also referred to as "self reflexive awareness" which in Tibetan is called rang-rik.
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Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Mipham, Sakyong (1999) 1999 Seminary Transcripts Book 2
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- as awareness-introspection
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Mipham, Sakyong (2000) 2000 Seminary Transcripts Book 2
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- blanking out,
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- knowing we're meditating,
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- self-awareness (rang rik),
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- Three sixty degree,
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- basic,
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- vipashyana,
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- do we have?,
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- panoramic, unfabricated, environmental,
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- unborn,
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- regard dharmas as dreams,
Mipham, Sakyong (2002) Taming the Mind and Walking the Bodhisattava Path
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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Trungpa, Chögyam (1973) 1973 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
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- all pervading
Trungpa, Chögyam (1974) 1974 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1975) 1975 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1976) 1976 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1976) The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1979) 1979 Seminary Transcripts
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1980) 1980 Seminary Transcripts
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1981) 1981 Seminary Transcripts
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- bursting onto level of energy
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- precision of
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- and basic decency
Trungpa, Chögyam (1982) 1982 Seminary Transcripts
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1983) 1983 Seminary Transcripts
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1985) 1985 Seminary Transcripts
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1988) Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior
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Trungpa, Chögyam (1995) The Path is the Goal
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- openness and awareness
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- awareness of environment
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- mindfulness and awareness
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- awareness as all-pervasive thick cream
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- awareness an insight
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- postmeditation,
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- nowness and,
