Reflections on awareness. What is awareness ? Is it mindfulness ? Is it knowledge ? A kind of light ? Awareness is not consciousness . Rather it is attentiveness, a deliberate attentivness in which we become aware of things. We notice them before they will take name and place in our consciousness. There they will be finally forgotten and drift into the subconscious. Awareness is a light that shines on phenomena, on things, before we label them. Consciousness is just a reflection in the light...

Recently, I read two books by Chögyam Trungpa: Meditation in Action written in 1968 and The Lion’s Roar: An Introduction to Tantra from 1973. Trungpa is a fascinating author who possesses deep experience and access to Buddhism, which he is able to convey brilliantly in a vivid and lucid manner. One might say: with diamond-like clarity. And that brings us directly to the book The Lion’s Roar, in which he describes the practice, the characteristics, the distinctive features, the dangers, as...

ZAZOOM erring cloud sangha 25th of November 2025 Carl: Today's talk, I would like to return again to the topic of silence. We could call it an echo of silence, as it is a reaction, a response to the lecture from two weeks ago, which was about silence and the main question, "What is silence ?" At that time, two weeks ago, I read a text by John Millington Synge , Gerry wrote me that I spelled the name right, but Gerry, you never heard it, because you just read it in the script. Gerry:...