Coaching practices for Pure Awareness Practice

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• Whatever I touch in my morning sit completely evaporates the second real life starts, and the calm stays locked in "meditation time"
• I’m tired of techniques and counting and focusing on something
• I keep straining to "get into" a meditative state like awareness is something I have to switch on and aim
• In a still moment I sometimes catch a glimpse of just being the space everything is happening in, not the things happening
• My calm only lasts as long as the cushion

Practices that may help

1. Small glimpses, many times — the micro-dose delivery model
   Train non-dual awareness through many brief touches across the day rather than long sittings.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
2. Shikantaza (just sitting)
   Sit in open, objectless awareness — not focusing on anything, not following anything.
   Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond)
3. Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space
   Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
4. Rest as the witness rather than in objects
   Allow the inquiry to culminate in resting as the awareness that perceives, rather than in any object perceived.
   Self-Inquiry: Ramana Maharshi’s Path of Direct Investigation
5. Work as practice (samu)
   Bring full, wholehearted attention to ordinary tasks, treating activity itself as meditation.
   Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond)
6. Right mindfulness — the four foundations of awareness
   Practise systematic awareness of body, feeling-tones, mind states, and dharmas as the core of satipatthana.
   The Noble Eightfold Path as a Practical Life Framework
7. Shikantaza — "just sitting" in the Soto Zen tradition
   Sit with complete presence and nothing to achieve — no goal, no technique, no observer separate from sitting.
   Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical
8. Practice inquiry into the ground of your experience
   Investigate the aware presence that underlies all mental content as a way of touching the real.
   The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical
9. Non-grasping awareness: letting arise and pass
   Watch thoughts, sensations, and emotions arise and dissolve without grabbing or pushing.
   Shikantaza: Just Sitting
10. Treat every act as an offering — however mundane
    The karma yoga practitioner does not divide life into sacred and secular — every act done with full attention is practice.
    Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action

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