Ajahn Viradhammo begins. It's about trusting in awareness.. Trust on the outer level and inner level..so yes, awareness on the outer level, he mentions an example of checking the delivery of the measure of the cords of fire wood being brought to the monastery as an outer level, a worldly dhamma. And the importance of establishing a good foundation for the contemplative life is cultivating a good lifestyle and then having that in place we are talking about stream of consciousness....this is where the ideas of dependant origination, anicca, dukkha come from ....in that sense where stream of consciousness fit in with trust.. so there is a sense of peace, of happiness? .....

Ajahn Viradhammo points to the bringing in of more silence into the mind rather than trying to control thoughts. He points to another dimension of the mind that he is interested in...the unchanging, the timeless, nibbana...turning towards just this moment in a very simple way...stillness of being...non-desire

So training in non preconception...availability.......

Ajahn Viradhammo encourages sleepy retreatants to choose to opt out of the sitting and have a cold shower, or do walking practice or to take a nap if their fatigue is too much. Fore the others he begins by asking them to listen to sound and feel the body. . .notice silence . . . awareness is unchanging . . . the foreground changes . . the background is silent.. conscious.. awareness. . .be the background.. . . .

Ajahn Viradhammo speaks about his early spiritual search, this search has a loneliness that we have no language for. He continues with sharing his experience of entering into the spiritual life.