Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness Annaka Harris

[Mike 03]

5. It's so interesting because this is the premise set out

in so many of the early Buddhist and Bon teachings (specifically the Vajrayana Dzogchen texts) that talk about the "ground" or "base" of all consciousness (a word the texts themselves avoid) is what they term Rigpa or Primordial Wisdom, which is the enlightened part of an essence that is distinguished by being cognizant awareness (which I think of as consciousness, but advanced Buddhists may make a distinction) . And there are debates on what the third aspect of the "Ground" is, with some texts calling it "unconstrained proliferation" or "spontaneous luminosity", meaning that what appears as matter manifests spontaneously and that there are no limits on what can manifest. (But in eastern thought the absolute goal is to transcend subject/object but that is an entirely different discussion).

Wish I was better at explaining all this, but it is fascinating.

I love that we don't know everything.