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There are two types of ways of being aware of something: primary consciousness and mental factors. Primary consciousness makes up the second aggregate and it is aware of merely the essential nature of something.
Sep 12, 2024 · When the words make contact (3) with your eyes, they reach a consciousness (4). There, the meaning of the words becomes a mental sense object (1) for your mental sense organ (2)—your mind. When these come into contact (3), there is consciousness (4) of the meaning of the words.
- Simeon Mihaylov
Form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness, in order to be empty of a separate self, have to be there. Emptiness is the ground of everything. “Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.”
Our practice focuses on consciousness or vijñāna, with Tejananda discussing the ‘Perfection of Wisdom’ or prajñāpāramitā as presented in the Heart Sutra: “attainment too is emptiness”. Enlightenment isn’t an “attainment”, but rather a seeing through our delusion of fixed and separate selfhood.
Dec 11, 2023 · Emptiness teaches the lack of substantiality or independence of things and stresses the idea of no independent origination, that the present state of all things is the result of a previous state. Emptiness includes the teaching of impermanence; everything is always in a state of change.
Starting with our everyday experience, it enables us to ‘experience’ emptiness progressively in relation to our perception of space and consciousness, right up to the liberation of ‘signlessness’.
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There is only this non-emptiness: the singleness based on the perception of the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness.’ Thus he regards it as empty of whatever is not there. Whatever remains, he discerns as present: ‘There is this.’
