Awakening to Pure Consciousness: résumé by koosradha

1. What is the cosmos or universe?

Cosmos is an organisation and a movement of matter and energy in space and

time.

Basic unit of cosmos = a particle of matter and energy operating in a given state
of universal order.

2. What is a living organism?

An organism is a living organisation of cells having a given structure and

certain functions. A cell is basically an organisation of matter, energy and life.

Basic unit of an organism = a living cell with a potential to be actualised.

3. What is reality?

Reality is a mental experience (both past and present) of the cosmos, organisms
and their interactions. It is an experience, through the body and mind, of
objects, entities and events, that existed, exist, might have existed or might
exist. It is an experience of what is known, knowable, felt, feelable, thought and
thinkable.

The reference point of reality as mental experience is ego or self, tied to a body-
brain-mind complex.

Reality = mental experience.

Basic unit of reality = experience.

No experience = no reality

4. What is experience?

Experience is knowledge of or about something through direct observation or

indirect information. It is the process of bringing anything specific (including
oneself) into personal knowledge or into existence for personal knowledge.
Experiencing takes place in the continuous flow of the present while
experiences may be related to the past, present or future objects, entities or
events. Experiences, in terms of accumulated memories, make sense to an entity

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only when related to itself or its distinct self. An experience is always ‘about’
something specific within the field of space, time and mental recollection.

Dimensions of experience:
(a) Field of experience: the spacious universe containing inert objects, living
entities and ever-changing events in the environment, both outer (in the world)
and inner (in the mind). The field is there only as long as there is personal
consciousness of the field as an object of experience.
(b) Instruments of experience: consist of sensory and other organs of the body
and their abilities/capacities connected to the brain + technological instruments
or aids, built through scientific knowledge.
(c) Processor of experience: the brain complex with its main mental faculties-
mind (apprehension: sensation & imagination), intellect (comprehension:
logical & intuitive thoughts), impulse (emotion: basic feelings & drives), and
memory (recollection: storehouse of past experiences, direct or indirect,
conscious or subconscious, personal or collective). These are also instruments
of experience as they help to gain experiences and make sense of them.
(d) Levels of experience: conscious (wakeful, presence, with attention),
subconscious (dream or semi-attention), unconscious (sleep, coma or absence).
(e) Seat of experience: the conscious/subconscious mind, through which
consciousness (being or becoming aware of something specific in the field) gets
objectified as things and thoughts, as the instruments of experience and the
whole field of experience. In this sense, mind is the seat that transforms and
processes consciousness through the instruments of experience (sensory and
mental faculties) into everything that exists, existed, might exist, might have
existed, and might eventually come to exist.
(e) Centre of experience: ego or I-Me aspect of historical personality. It is the
partially conscious consistent cognitive self-centre put together by the
accumulation of experiences, by the continuity of memories associated with a
particular seat of experience in a specific body. The memory-made self, as a
dominant thought thinking other thoughts, makes ‘as if’ all experiences
occurred to it and ‘as if’ all experience occurred through its own agency. It is
the essence (subtle stuff) of experience or reality tied to a particular seat of
experience in a particular body. It is also an object of experience, born through
the processing and transformation of consciousness into personal memories that
are kept alive. It identifies with every aspect of recollected experiences
pertaining to the particular seat and body operating within the wider external
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field of experience. It also separates itself from the wider external field and
from other bodies and objects existing therein. To maintain its sense of
separateness, it dwells constantly in the memory pond of past accumulated
experiences and keeps talking to itself through the ripples of words and images
or thoughts. This inner chattering or stitching of words and images gives it a
sense of separate existence and continuity as it grabs and focuses the attention
of the mind from the immediate state of experiencing to itself and its own
activities. It thus constricts consciousness into a conceptual self-centre, which
can only apprehend and comprehend life in its own mind-space through its own
words-images associations and self-talking. It cannot understand anything
unless it talks that to itself and stores that in terms of words and images
(definitions and concepts) for future use.

5. What is consciousness?

Consciousness implies living mental knowingness (taking cognisance of

anything in existence, including the self centre), through which the
objects/things of the world-space and images/thoughts of the mind-space come
into existence/experience and are sustained. Consciousness is both the world-
space and the mind-space and everything both spaces contain as objects and
events. Consciousness is essentially the matter/substance of experience or
reality in whatever form it may appear; it is also the instrument of experience,
the processor, seat, the centre and field of experience.

Basis of experience = consciousness.

Consciousness transformed through experience processing = reality

Reality = objectified consciousness through sensory/mental processing and

experiencing.

Consciousness unmodified or untouched by self or self-centred processing=

Truth

Pure, unobjectified consciousness = Truth

Basis of reality, experience, organism, cosmos, self = Truth

Truth = the basis of everything & everyone, everywhere, every moment.

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Truth = pure immediate consciousness untouched, unsullied by self-centred
experience processing, which separates mind-space with its objects from the
universe-space. It is a unified field of experiencing or pure consciousness
devoid of any sense or activity of the separative self.

Pure immediate consciousness shines only through meditative experiencing in

the here-now, without the mind holding back to anything specific or projecting
forward of anything specific. It shines when the mind-space is not separated
from the universe, when there is no form or sense of identification or separation
in consciousness, when there is no self talking to itself through words and
images stored in memory.

6. What is meditative presence?

Meditative presence or awareness in the here-now is called Experiencing (v/s.

experience stored in memory). It is the flow of direct experiencing of the
universe without the interference of past experiences, of any sense of
identification or separation. It may be both a cultivated attitude (a process) and a
realisation (an outcome). It occurs only when the body & mind relax completely
in the present moment and when the mind dwells as fully as possible in the
immediate experiencing (awareness in the present) state despite the
undercurrent automatic processing and objectification movements. In pure
immediate experiencing, through sensitivity, attention revels in the silent state
of pure knowingness, which is without measure and without separation. When
the attention of fully present mind detaches itself from the undercurrent
automatic processes of objectification, separation and labelling of objects and
rejoices in its own pure knowingness of its being, it is then anchored in the
Boundless One. In this state, the mind connects to the Boundless One Life and
merges into That.

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