No-one has ever experienced unconsciousness for even a moment. There is zero first-person evidence for it’s existence.
Consciousness is always present. It’s only the content that changes, comes and goes.
You are that consciousness.
Similar Posts
May You Live in Interesting Times
ByMartynWhen the awakened view dawns it becomes apparent that everything we experience points to it, and always did. It’s the recognition that each moment is a Dharma Gate, the opportunity to realize the nature of what-is and it becomes fascinating and fun to see how the consideration of any given domain or field of knowledge…
I Don’t Like Cynicism
ByMartynI don’t like cynicism. It gets over-used. It may be that sometimes its target is justified. But it rapidly becomes a blanket philosophy for life. An easy cop-out from sincerity and vulnerability. And then its just like adding poison to every meal. It’s much harder but more rewarding to try to see the best in…
You Are What You Seek
ByMartynWhy do we practice, why do we seek? Is it to attain or achieve some conceptual goal we call Enlightenment? Or is it to recognise that in every moment of our existence we are inescapably aware, we are here, we exist? In fact we are awareness itself, we only have to look right now to…
The Compassion of Nonduality
ByMartynThe teachings of nonduality can sometimes seem to be somewhat abstract, or removed from one’s lived experience, or even rejecting of it. It may be that these teachings, being so uncompromising about the causes of suffering and its remedies, seem to disregard the human-ness of life in favour of a cold, relentless discrimination. But the truth…
The Impulse to Spiritual Practice
ByMartynThe impulse to spiritual practice is the impulse to awaken so even if practice is wrong or poor or difficult or ineffectual it’s never misguided, and in the worst cases it can be redirected or transformed to better express the core impulse. All the prayers and mantras and chants are well and good but the…
Just Because
ByMartynJust because the mind identifies the problem (of suffering) doesn’t mean it can provide the answer.