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The Qualities of Awareness

by Willa Blythe Baker

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guided
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Meditation
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Explore the qualities of your own present-moment awareness. This guided meditation was offered at the annual Winter Retreat at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in 2015.

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Transcript

Leave your time to go.

Get comfortable on your seat.

Let your awareness move down into the body.

Arriving in your body on this seat.

Arriving in the here.

Let go of following after the past.

See if you can release the impulse to get involved in memory.

In thinking about the past,

Ruminating on the past.

Let go of the mind that anticipates the future.

The planning mind,

The worrying mind.

And arrive in the now at this very present time.

Being present to just whatever you're experiencing.

Notice your breath.

This natural coming and going of breath.

Breath without a breather.

Rest here with your mind open.

Heart open.

Breath open.

Ears open.

Senses open.

Really entering into this present moment of experience.

Letting it all unfold without getting enmeshed with any of it.

Being your experience,

Whatever it is.

Attaching in your experience.

Now within this experience,

This moment of being.

Just notice,

Is there a luminous quality to this experience?

Or is it dark and obstructed?

Is there a luminous quality to this moment of awareness?

This very moment?

Or is it dark?

And if you see this luminous,

Cognizant quality of experience,

Just rest in that quality.

Quality itself,

Not the changing appearances,

But the quality itself.

Just rest in that.

Be the luminosity of awareness.

Be the luminosity of awareness.

Now in this very present moment of experience,

In this moment of awareness.

What you are experiencing right now,

Whatever it is.

Is there a spaciousness permeating this experience?

Is there a space in which this experience is happening?

An openness that allows this experience to become manifest.

Is there that openness?

Or is this experience two-dimensional,

Without any openness?

Like a drawing on a piece of paper.

If you notice this open,

Spacious quality to your experience,

Then rest in that.

Be the space in which all of this is unfolding.

Be the space in which all of this is unfolding.

And now look at this immediate experience.

This moment of awareness.

And observe,

Is there ever a moment when this display of thoughts and sensations,

Feelings,

Sounds,

Appearances,

Is there ever a moment when it ceases?

Or is it a dynamic,

Self-generating display that arises within your experience,

Unimpededly,

Unceasingly arising?

Spontaneously creative.

If you see this unceasing quality of awareness,

Rest in that.

Not in the appearances themselves,

But in this unceasing generative quality of awareness.

Like this two-dimensional image,

This moment of awareness.

And now notice are these qualities,

The quality of luminosity,

The quality of spaciousness and the quality of unimpededness distinct or are these three qualities inseparable?

And beyond description.

See if you can find the place of their inseparability and rest there.

Unimpededness as luminous,

Spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Now let go even of the thought,

Luminosity,

Spaciousness,

Unimpededness.

And enter into the place of just knowing this is primordially so.

Feeling awareness recognize itself without effort.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Unimpededness as spacious,

Unimpeded.

Meet your Teacher

Willa Blythe BakerArlington,ma

4.6 (180)

Recent Reviews

David

April 22, 2022

Such a good, gentle process to get to awareness of awareness. Now, my number one favorite short meditation

Erik

January 26, 2021

An inspiring way of experiencing and analysing awareness

Katharina

August 13, 2020

Excellently guided present moment awareness meditation. Thank you! 🌈 β™₯ πŸ™ πŸ•ŠοΈ

Bodhi

June 29, 2019

πŸ™ β™₯️ πŸ™ A concise practice/teaching. Lama Willa uses so simple easy to understand terms to get to the core. I make notes on the questions asked from Lama-la so I can sit longer with them when needed for me. For me her meditations and teachings are like a ocean of nectar/amrita. I'm so glad i found her

R

March 14, 2019

With so many led relaxations on the app, it’s fantastic coming back to actual guided meditations like this one. Great balance of input and silence to experience awareness. Thank you πŸ™πŸΌ

Lynne

November 20, 2018

Love this meditation

Richard

September 18, 2018

Always refreshed by the beauty and simultaneous depth and simplicity of lama Willa’s teaching and meditations...wonderful!

Jane

October 13, 2017

A pathway to greater consciousness and awareness. Thank you.

Emeri

September 28, 2017

She asks the right questions. The point is not the answer but the asking and the space we can dwell in in the shadow of the question.

Dennis

September 25, 2017

I love the silent sections and I love how she manages to start speaking again without startling me. Wonderful meditation.

Basia

September 24, 2017

I'm very grateful for this practice. Very helpful.

Vanessa

September 24, 2017

Enjoyed that thank you. Simple and somehow easy. πŸ™

Kerstin

September 24, 2017

Not for beginners! Fantastic guidance for a fully vitalizing yet relaxing practice.

jeanrc

September 23, 2017

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