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Awareness is perhaps a better word than consciousness as awareness can still be present when unconsciousness is present... like in O.B.E.(out of body experience's) and N.D.E.(near death experiences)
Let us see what Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj has to say:
“Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginning less, 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.”
J Krishnamurti said that one must be totally free from the ‘known’ since all that is known is our past knowledge which is thought. This thought always intervenes and prevents us from knowing the reality, which is only in the present. So, in order to be free from the thought, which is an attribute and the essence of the conscious mind, one must be aware choicelessly. Being aware of a thought or a feeling as it arises, without condemning it or identifying with it, one will find that it unfolds ever more widely and deeply, and thereby discover the whole content of what is. To understand the process of what is there must be choiceless awareness, a freedom from condemnation, justification, and identification. Choiceless awareness need not be continuous, which is almost impossible and is not necessary, but it is from moment to moment.
originally posted by: Crowfoot
a reply to: quintessentone
In what is called the subtle body there is only an awareness that is subtle and your consciousness is in it... But of the physical body um no it's laying there unconscious... Some OBE sorts don't look at their own body laying there if they did they'd see it laying there unconscious or appear as dead.
I had an experience of it by accident once I was sitting meditating accidentally fell asleep and it was like I inward turned then fell feet first through the floor and walked out of the house immaterial ghost style into the woods naked to top it all off and I wasn't before the OBE.
originally posted by: Crowfoot
a reply to: quintessentone
Oh! If you see that again eat it!
originally posted by: Crowfoot
a reply to: quintessentone
No that's not what it does at all... Youll be able to OBE or not any time you want as easy as blinking your eyes on purpose and be filled with the immortal elixir of Taoism.
originally posted by: Crowfoot
a reply to: quintessentone
Fair enough I intentionally broke my cord once not knowing what it was... It took me a long time to find my little golden body and eat that thing afterwards. The soma tastes sort of like that sweet stuff thats put on your teeth at the dentist office during a cleaning as a sweetness and it just sort of pours down from the teeth roots when I think about it mouth fills up and I swallow it.
But yeah sleep is more important than any of that business like waking up and enjoying the sheets and pillow forget to do that and youll feel miserable all day.
originally posted by: Crowfoot
a reply to: quintessentone
I'm sure there's well over a few billion people asleep while I am. Sleeping alone sounds nice but silly at the same time. I get a kinked neck without at least one.
originally posted by: Crowfoot
a reply to: quintessentone
Anyone conscious of that before I posted it?