There seems to be no final stuff. This popped up in my brain while biking home from a dinner with my parents.
If there was no life in the Universe, would it STILL be cool to be enlightened? Or is the enlightened thing dependent of “life”? What would enlightenment be without “maya” or “life”?
Can awareness be aware if there is nothing to be aware of?
Every “enlightened” being that we know of is still in this world of the living. Can they still be there if life is wiped out?
Somehow I feel like I am only reporting what is happening. I´m not really involved in it.
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2007-06-29
2007-05-13
Consciousness and Awareness 070512
Grim shared this with me:
http://buddhism.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=242880
Consciousness and Awareness Source: I AM THAT, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q: Coming back to sleep. Do you dream?
M: Of course.
Q: What are your dreams?
M: Echoes of the waking state.
Q: And your deep sleep?
M: The brain consciousness is suspended.
Q: Are you then unconscious?
M: Unconscious of my surroundings - yes.
Q: Not quite unconscious?
M: I remain aware that I am unconscious.
Q: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. Are they not the same?
M: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.
Q: How does one go beyond consciousness into awareness?
M: Since it is awareness that makes consciousness possible, there is awareness in every state of consciousness. Therefore, the very consciousness of being conscious is already a movement in awareness. Interest in your stream of consciousness takes you to awareness. It is not a new state. It is at once recognized as the original, basic existence, which is life itself, and also love and joy.
In discussion with grim:
Aurora says:
and it correspond with my thought of awareness and conciousness
.
I think it should be possible to be aware when sleeping, but to stay in awareness is deeper still
http://buddhism.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=242880
Consciousness and Awareness Source: I AM THAT, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q: Coming back to sleep. Do you dream?
M: Of course.
Q: What are your dreams?
M: Echoes of the waking state.
Q: And your deep sleep?
M: The brain consciousness is suspended.
Q: Are you then unconscious?
M: Unconscious of my surroundings - yes.
Q: Not quite unconscious?
M: I remain aware that I am unconscious.
Q: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. Are they not the same?
M: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.
Q: How does one go beyond consciousness into awareness?
M: Since it is awareness that makes consciousness possible, there is awareness in every state of consciousness. Therefore, the very consciousness of being conscious is already a movement in awareness. Interest in your stream of consciousness takes you to awareness. It is not a new state. It is at once recognized as the original, basic existence, which is life itself, and also love and joy.
In discussion with grim:
Aurora says:
and it correspond with my thought of awareness and conciousness
.
I think it should be possible to be aware when sleeping, but to stay in awareness is deeper still
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