Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life

I'm your host Cori Mascara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the refuge that is awareness

More to come on that in a moment first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells

Okay, I'd like to start by sharing a quote by Ajance Meito who says, awareness is your refuge

Awareness of the changingness of feelings of attitudes of moods of material change and emotional change

Stay with that because it's a refuge that is indestructible

It's not something that changes. It's a refuge you can trust in

This refuge is not something that you create

It's not a creation. It's not an ideal

It's very practical and very simple but easily overlooked or not noticed

When you're mindful you're beginning to notice it's like this

So awareness is your refuge

This is one of those things you hear quite a bit in the mindfulness meditation contemplative spaces

That you can hear so much that it can be quite trite you might not hear awareness as your refuge a lot that particular phrasing

But just this idea that mindfulness meditation that's about coming back to this place of awareness

And one of the things I've seen very often over the years

Is a lot of people who are new to this practice

Hear that idea and go okay nice idea, but like then what do you do with the awareness?

All right, I'm aware of my experience now what or they say like I'm already aware of my experience and I don't feel refuge in it

So understandable pushback, but it's because

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The awareness is not deeply embodied yet

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