I'm just building on that Rupert if I understand it awareness is focused in the
present in the in the waking state and hazy in the June state and unfocused in the deep
sleep state I'm just wondering what happens to awareness in Korea or when we die because from
what we've said it's always ever-present is always pure you see that then the body is an
image in the finite mind and the finite mind is a localization of infinite consciousness
I'll say that again the body is an image in the mind right now when I say the mind I mean the
mind in the broadest sense of the word the body is a mixture of images sensations and perceptions
which appear in the mind yeah all you know of your body now is the image of it and the sensation of
it it appears in your mind so the body the body is an image in the mind but the mind itself is a
contraction or a localization of consciousness so if you imagine infinite consciousness the nature
of consciousness is infinite it's not possible for infinite consciousness to know a finite object yes
because imagine infinite consciousness like an infinite space and now imagine a little finite
object appearing in that space that finite object would displace a little bit of consciousness is
infinite Ness and therefore consciousness would no longer be infinite it would be finite so it's
not possible for infinite consciousness to know a finite object in order to know a finite object
infinite consciousness must seem to cease being infinite and become finite infinite consciousness
we must become the finite mind it's only as a finite mind the consciousness can know the
world that is why in deep sleep we don't know the world because consciousness is totally defocused
it is let go of all its association with the mind and the body it's gone back to itself and
it is infinite consciousness knowing its own being alone in order to know something other
than its own being consciousness must as it were ceased looking at itself ceased knowing itself as
it is and become a finite mind how does it become a finite mind it identifies itself with a form it
simultaneously creates and identifies itself with a form it is this mixture of consciousness plus
form that creates the finite mind or consciousness plus the body creates the finite mind it is only
as that finite mind that we can know a world that is why even when we have a dream the dreamed world
is always seen from the point of view of a dreamed person yes if you're walking down the streets of
London if the streets of London appeared to you in your dream you are one of the people on the street
and the street that you see is seen from the point of view of the person so in order for a dreamed
world to appear in consciousness consciousness has to appear to locate itself the dreamed person
it's only from the point of view of the between person that consciousness sees the dreamed world
likewise now it's only from the point of view of the body that consciousness is seeing a room and
consciousness has to seem to limit itself as a form as a separate subject in order to know a
separate object but in order to know itself it doesn't need to identify itself with the body
it knows itself by itself so in Tahrir Tahrir is just the experience of consciousness knowing its
own being without needing to take the form of the finite mind indeed once consciousness takes
the form of the finite mind it cannot know itself as it is because just as the infinite
consciousness cannot know a finite object so a finite mind cannot know infinite consciousness
if consciousness wants to know the world it has to focus it has to narrow its vision it has to
assume the position of the body and it is only as that body based consciousness that it can
know the world but in order to know itself it has to gradually relax the focus of its attention let
all those limitations drop away until there is nothing limiting itself that is the experience of
tahrir or just a simple knowing of our own being consciousness knowing itself without the agency
of a finite mind that's the same as yes when when the body dies remember the body is an appearance
in the mind so when when the body dies just a particular localization of consciousness disperses
your your finite mind is a localization of consciousness when the localization dissolves
the consciousness doesn't dissolve as a friend of mine Bernardo castrum put it he said the finite
mind is like a whirlpool in a stream all there is to the whirlpool is water when the body dies the
world pulled dissolves but nothing disappears because all there is to the whirlpool is water
the water remains but it's no longer it no longer precipitates in the form of the body mind so the
mind is like a precipitation or like a whirlpool it's a localization of consciousness and the body
in the world appear in that localization when the body disappears that localization disperses
however as the as the localization disperses its contents are still in consciousness so there's
no reason why another localization shouldn't form but contain the elements of the previously
dispersed whirlpool which would explain why the why they could eat for instance it could explain
successive lives they're not successive lives they're successive precipitations of finite
mind and there's no reason why the residue of one finite mind as it disperses into the stream
shouldn't take the form of another well pour another finite mind so in the did this could
explain how how what is normally considered to be the theory of reincarnation or a theory of
reincarnation that has nothing to do with bodies physical bodies being born and dying no physical
bodies never come into existence we never go we never go further down from consciousness
and mind we never go down to matter everything we know of matter that is the body in the world
is an appearance in the mind in the finite mind consciousness precipitates as the finite mind and
appears as the body in the world and then when it relaxes it ceases to be the finite mind the body
and the world disappear as it focuses again the body in the mind come into existence and this this
successive contraction and relaxation it happens on different timescales it happens every time a
perception comes to an end there is this momentary relaxation and contraction it happens every 24
hours when we fall asleep it happens on a bigger scale when we die and when we're born they're
just different different lifespans different timescales for this same process of consciousness
contracting or localizing and relaxing localizing and relaxing as it localizes the body in the world
come into existence as it relaxes it goes out of existence it is very very interesting here