4th June 2003

Hi gl,

so, accordingly, all a person really is, is consciousness?

The assumption of the existential reality of the person is so deeply ingrained isn't it?

:-)

There is no "person".

There is only one state, that of Consciousness or Awareness, Bozo the Clown,.....  call it whatever.

The three states of waking, (thus the waking entity persona), ........dream (thus the dreaming entity) ............and the state deep sleep, (sense of Impersonal presence) ......are all projections.

They simply come and go.

That substratum on which all the 3 projections are projected on, ..........is that-which-IS.

The substratum or the "I" , ........the Awareness-not-aware-of itself , ...........is that alone which persists in all the appearing/disappearing three states,..

  . and is real.

  We may roughly put it like this, Consciousness or Awareness-not-aware-of itself, is the only reality.

Identified Consciousness as "personality" is the waking state with the notion of an individual person.

Identified Consciousness as the dreamer personality, is the sleep-dream state.

Identified Consciousness as Impersonal presence, or what is referred to as  the "I AM",  .....we call it the deep-sleep state.

Consciousness is the screen, on which all these 3 pictures,... come and go.

Come and go in time.

The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.

Because by long habit, you have been regarding these three states as real, .....

......we call the state of Awareness-not-aware-of itself or Consciousness-in-repose,

..........as  the fourth.

There is however, really no four states, but only one state, engaging itself in some hoopla.

an awareness of events without being immersed.

An awareness of events, .............both through the body-mind complex, which hereto was assumed as the self-identity, ........

......as well as events happening in the environ of this body-mind complex, i.e. through other body-mind complexes, .........

.... when this entire hoopla, is witnessed,  which means there is no stake, there is no agenda,...............

........ this is the witnessing stage, .............the Impersonal Presence of I AM.

I am that I am,  was thundered to Moses.

  When there is no hoopla to be witnessed, it is the state of the fourth, ........ .....Awareness not aware of itself.

 further, aware of event being connected to all other event?

Inter-connected, co-existence, ........ all connote discrete events.

Whereas , in the phenomenal sense, ....it is the "Whole" which is acting, ....

.......the "Whole" whose simultaneous objective expressions are all the discrete individuals and the "eventings" which occur through the individual manifested objects.

To make it clear, look the waves in the Ocean.

There are thousands of "waves" all appearing discrete individuals each with unique identities.

And thus appearing  to be relating, connecting to each other.

Pick up a "wave" in your hand and all that will be in the palm of your hand , will be the Ocean.

Not a single "wave" has an independent existential reality to it.

Each of the thousands of "waves",........ are just an objective expression of the Ocean.

Same is the case of this entire phenomenality,......... made up of relating sentient and

non-sentient manifested objects,.........

.........as "waves" in the Ocean.

And in stating so, the "fourth" or the Ocean, becomes a concept.