Is Awareness a Concept? - 9th November 2017

The old view, because that's when we get unconscious. Even this distinction, qualitative distinction between the hand and the finger, awareness and consciousness, the noumenal, the non-phenomenal, and the dynamic of the phenomena, is also a conceptual distinction that we make in Satsang just to make the point here. And ultimately, even this is thrown away. I'm being cruel to this moment; is also being with this. Then we have to start using these conceptual boundaries, which means that the dynamic aspect is just open to this moment fully, or in thing-quality. It's an insight about its forms that is that waking up in the... you don't pick up the pretense. If you do, you are a self-phone, but you will pose as if you are something else. This is why we call it the play of consciousness, the Leela.

I know the pretense is dropped naturally every moment. I'm happy we're having this conversation because in this, primary doubts which we can get stuck with... show me what is picked up without going to a thought? Is something picked up naturally in your original state? Are you some-body? You can say 'not picked up.' So you need a notion of being somebody to pick up the pretense. That's why the mind has the tougher job with it for so long, that this worker is now saying that 'I can't help it, I have to pick up the signal.' Once you have it, so belief is one of the final... who says that consciousness is created for itself as part of this game? Now consciousness will find belief from its individual identity.