Awareness Games: Playing with Your Mind to Create Joy

When awareness is expanded as much as possible, include awareness itself.

What is awareness NOT? It’s not a special state you have to get to. It’s already happening even if you don’t notice. It’s not a mystical or special experience. It’s just garden-variety everyday awareness. The simple noticing of experience. It’s not something you have to learn to do. It’s already doing itself. You simply notice it. It’s not a concep

a shift in focus from object to subject, from what's noticed to what's noticing

Contract your awareness down to one thing: a toe; a thought. Expand to include more and more of what you are aware of. Play with expanding and contracting—how small can you contract to? How large can you expand to? How fast or slow can you expand and contract? Go back and forth. Fiddle with it. Play with it.

things work and certain other things don't work. We're experimenting—we're playing—we're stumbling—we're hoping to accidentally fall into this well because we're playing around it.

The mind is the organ of separation. Its job is to scan the environment and distinguish between the good stuff and the bad stuff—the stuff that will help us survive and the stuff that's dangerous. But the mind is a tool—it's not us. It's something we use—it's something we're aware of—it looks at objects. In fact, thought itself is an object. What's

There are no specific maps. That's where games come in—because when we're playing a game we're letting go of the idea that only certain

All of these Awareness Games have one purpose: to turn the mind around from outer focus to inner focus, and through inner focus to find that obscure little secret passageway to expanded focus. The delightful surprise is that the obscure little secret passageway

Because finding the well of joy within is not something with correct answers, set rules, reproducible steps.