Deepak answers questions about the nature of consciousness. How is consciousness defined and is the universe conscious? These questions are from readers of book War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality by Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow.
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Truth, Learning, Knowing and Wisdom are the fruits of consciousness-awareness.
Are parallel lines
Like an untuned guitar
The strings just don’t rhyme
The directions are the same
Regarding self
But some feel better
And that’s life’s true wealth.
An example of these levels
And the personalities thereof
Is when one speaks of hate
And then speaks of love.
Like a person who helps
The crippled and the blind
But opposes interracial love
And inconsistent mind.
So for love to be true
You just got to be
Totally consistent
In order to be free.
Because then seeing self
As others see you
Becomes a reality of life
You’re free to be true.
all animals have a level of consciousness.
how a society treats its farm animals reveals much about that society's level of consciousness.
your comments on guilt are interesting as indeed guilt is of the ego meaning it is self confirmatory to the ego as a separate enitity from all others. the ego takes to guilt like a duck takes to water and religious insitutions make a ton of money preaching that guilt.
as far as the concepts of god as father and a personal satan those are images that are made in the image of man. God is not a father or a mother but an infinite intelligence and vitality that expresses that intelligence and vitality as a universe and conscious life within the universe.
we are expressions of that intelligence and vitality. we are perfectly imperfect expressions of that intelligence for a divine reason. find that reason and a whole new world will evolve in one's view of the infinite.
the fallen or we fell asleep explanations are man's attempt to explain our imperfections both based in our lack of knowledge of the divine purpose of our unawareness.
Lose your ego and bury your pride. Guilt is your conscience telling you that you have done wrong. If you kill, you know that you have done wrong. If you cheat to win or steal and try and justify, guilt is put in place. If you feel as though this is a religious conspiracy, then again,you are mistaken.
There is NO satan only mind and karma. We all have the opportunity to take responsibility for our actions. We are NOT IN THE WORLD, the WORLD IS IN US. This is the divine's gift to Soul. We get to choose between mind and Soul. Blessings, Thomas
A Living Param Saint.
Consciousness is not ultimate reality; it is manifested reality. Absolute perfect reality is pure awareness.
Most of the world believes that consciousness creates awareness; it is the infinite awareness of Isness that creates/manifests/expresses consciousness.
As consciousness evolves greater awareness is attained; therefore awareness is primary.
INVALID STATEMENT: as awareness evolves consciousness is attained. Can you see how invalid this previous statement is?
We have no valid definition for awareness.
We can dance around the definition of awareness by stating awareness is observation with understanding but that definition fails on several levels.
Awareness is that which is of the Infinite and therefore cannot be defined; for to attempt to define Infinite is to limit Infinite and the very definition of infinite means it has no boundaries.
Dr. Chopra has yet to understand the difference between consciousness and awareness. But he will if not in this life than another. I.e. Hindu thing. :-)
When I met him in person I offered to explain these differences to him in detail. i.e. he declined. He already knows. i.e. guru knows all thing. :-(
Awareness and consciousness are the yin and yang of life. Can you describe why one is yin and which one is yang? :-) If you can you are way ahead of Chopra’s understanding of awareness and consciousness.
Dr Chopraknows or should know that transcendental meditation (TM) is consciusness itself ; TM is th eonly experience which by virtue of being immortal consciosuness enlivens the total brain . TM is th eonly meditation proven to create " total brain functioning " because it enlivens the immortal consciosuness which created the brain th ebody and th euniverse..only that experience of perfect stressfree state of zero entropy deep inside at Planck scale can neutralize entropy in body/brain; neutralizing entropy means healing stress....nothing needs to be done to know consciousness to know peace to know absolute bliss than to heal stress in the deep deep rest of TM state...consciousness is SATCHITANANDA and only stress stands between us and that omnipresent Reality
well one thing needs to be done : huffpost needs to place the spirit/meditation section moreprominently on its buttons..the peopel who run huffpost are either not enlightened enough or are placing their money interests ahead of their consciosuness interests
and i need to win the lottery so i can donate to maharishi vedic pandits , the premier peace creating experts in history
Blessings.