Additional Awareness Watching Awareness Methods

[Guru Fat Bastard]

Here are some additional ways if anyone is interested. Not to detract from what @Beginner Mind posted here , which is excellent,but for additional exploration if desired. This is not to cause any confusion with too many "ways", but to find one that best resonates and feels effortless or nearly effortless and stick with that one. If it feels effortful, burdensome or stressful,then it's not the one you want.

THE AWARENESS WATCHING AWARENESS METHOD PRACTICE INSTRUCTIONS  by Michael Langford:

74. Description A: Shut your eyes. Notice your awareness. Observe your awareness. Turn your attention away from the world, body and thought and towards awareness watching awareness. Every time you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought and back towards awareness watching awareness. Watch your awareness, not your thoughts.

75. Description B: Look out at the room and notice your awareness looking out through your eyes. Now shut your eyes and notice that same awareness is still there that a moment ago was looking outward at the room. Observe that awareness. If you notice thoughts, ignore the thoughts and turn your attention away from the thoughts and towards awareness observing awareness.

76. Description C: Shut your eyes. Notice that you are conscious. Watch that consciousness. Every time you notice a thought, turn your attention away from the thought and continue watching your consciousness. Do not watch your thoughts. Watch your consciousness. Consciousness watching consciousness. Consciousness conscious of consciousness.

77. Description D: Shut your eyes. Turn your attention away from thought and watch the watcher.

78. Description E: Shut your eyes. Notice your awareness. Be aware of your awareness. If you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought and towards awareness of awareness.

79. Description F: Shut your eyes. Just remain in awareness aware of itself. If there are thoughts, turn your attention away from thoughts and back to awareness aware of itself. 43

80. Description G: Shut your eyes. You observe your awareness. Whenever there are thoughts, turn your observation away from the thoughts and continue to observe your awareness.

81. Description H: Shut your eyes. Turn your attention towards awareness and concentrate on awareness. Concentrate in a relaxed manner without effort. Every time thoughts are noticed, turn your attention away from the thoughts and back towards concentrating on awareness.

82. Description I: Shut your eyes. Be aware of being aware. Now remain in that awareness of awareness. If there are thoughts, turn your attention away from the thoughts and continue being aware of being aware.

83. Description J: Shut your eyes. Notice you are aware. Look at that awareness. Remain in awareness looking at awareness. If thoughts arise, look away from the thoughts and continue looking at awareness. Remain in that awareness looking at awareness.

84. Description K: Shut your eyes. Your present awareness watching your present awareness, while ignoring all else.

85. Description L: Look at the room. Notice your attention looking through your eyes. Shut your eyes and turn your attention around to look at itself. Attention attending to attention. Remain with that. Don’t move from that. Don’t attend to anything else. Don’t attend to thought. Attend only to attention.

86. Description M: Look at the room. Notice your awareness looking through your eyes. Now shut your eyes. Notice that same awareness that was looking through your eyes a moment ago. Now turn that awareness around degrees away from the world, the body and thought and towards itself, towards awareness watching awareness.

87. Description N: Look at the room, or if you are outdoors look at the sky. Your awareness is the seer. Shut your eyes. See the seer. Turn your attention away from thought and towards the seer.

88. Description O: Shut your eyes. Turn your attention away from the known and know the knower.

89. Description P: Shut your eyes. Awareness aware only of awareness. Remain there. Dwell there. Be there. Live there.

90. Description Q: Shut your eyes. One awareness observing one awareness. Not two, one observing the other. Only one. Observe your awareness. If you notice thinking, do not attempt to complete the thought. Drop the thought, let go of the thought as though you had no interest in the thought. Continue observing your awareness.

91. Description R: Shut your eyes. Observe your awareness. Relax into your awareness. Remain there in awareness aware only of your awareness.

92. Description S: Shut your eyes. Turn your awareness away from what your awareness is aware of and towards awareness aware only of itself.

93. Description T: Shut your eyes. Directly experience awareness by observing and relaxing into awareness. Rest in your awareness of awareness. Rest in awareness aware only of itself. Remain in awareness. Do not remain in thought. 44

94. Description U: There are the things you are aware of. There is the awareness that is aware of the things. Instead of observing the things, observe the awareness. Shut your eyes. There are thoughts and feelings. There is the awareness that is aware of thoughts and feelings. Instead of observing thoughts and feelings, observe the awareness.

95. Description V: Shut your eyes. Do not observe thought. Observe awareness. Awareness observing awareness is empty. There is no thing to observe there. Don’t complicate it by thinking there is more to it. Awareness is subtle. In awareness observing awareness there is only awareness. It is simple. Remain in awareness observing itself.

96. Description W: Shut your eyes. Focus on the awareness that thoughts are arising in. Do not focus on the thoughts. Thoughts come and thoughts go. The awareness that thoughts are arising in does not come and go. Be aware of the awareness that does not come and go. When there are thoughts, watch the awareness, not the thoughts. When there are no thoughts, watch the awareness. Thoughts or no thoughts, continue to observe the awareness, not the thoughts. Continue to relax in and be aware of your awareness. Remain there. Be there. Live there.

97. Description X: Shut your eyes. If you see darkness, turn your attention away from the darkness and towards awareness of awareness. If you see light, turn your attention away from the light and towards awareness aware only of awareness. If you notice your breathing, turn your attention away from the breathing and towards awareness aware only of awareness. Whatever you become aware of, turn your attention away from it and towards awareness of awareness.

98. Description Y: Shut your eyes. Awareness not aware of thoughts. Awareness not aware of emotions. Awareness not aware of anything except awareness. Awareness aware of nothing except awareness. The background of awareness aware only of the background of awareness. Awareness aware only of awareness. Awareness only. Awareness alone.

99. Description Z: Shut your eyes. Let go of the idea that you own awareness. Let go of the idea that you control awareness. Let the infinite awareness be what it is without your trying to control it. Relax and observe the awareness. Let go of everything and observe the awareness. Relax completely and observe the awareness. With as little effort as possible and with a gentle, kind, easy, relaxed, loving approach; observe the awareness

Edited November 20, 2020 by Guru Fat Bastard

[RedLine]

The problem I find with this technique is I am attaching to objects very fast so I have to refocus on the awareness again and again and this become neurosis.

 

I would say this technique is uselful only for advanced yogis who have a high degree of equanimity and concentration.

Edited November 20, 2020 by RedLine

[The0Self]

4 hours ago, Guru Fat Bastard said:

Do not observe thought. Observe awareness. Awareness observing awareness is empty. There is no thing to observe there. Don’t complicate it by thinking there is more to it. Awareness is subtle. In awareness observing awareness there is only awareness. It is simple. Remain in awareness observing itself.

My favorite. I took the shut your eyes part out as it is not needed.

 

4 hours ago, Guru Fat Bastard said:

98. Description Y: Shut your eyes. Awareness not aware of thoughts. Awareness not aware of emotions. Awareness not aware of anything except awareness. Awareness aware of nothing except awareness. The background of awareness aware only of the background of awareness. Awareness aware only of awareness. Awareness only. Awareness alone.

99. Description Z: Shut your eyes. Let go of the idea that you own awareness. Let go of the idea that you control awareness. Let the infinite awareness be what it is without your trying to control it. Relax and observe the awareness. Let go of everything and observe the awareness. Relax completely and observe the awareness. With as little effort as possible and with a gentle, kind, easy, relaxed, loving approach; observe the awareness

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