Awareness Boundary – The word ‘feelings’ is equal to the word ‘experience.’

Awakening is a process where you are always looking back to see you did not see clearly before. 

The word feelings is equal to what Buddhism calls our awareness boundary

Even when you blackout, you are aware you missed something.

When you have no feeling, you feel that it is a no-feeling, feeling.

And because our awareness boundary is what we experience, feeling is also equal to our experience. But that doesn’t make the feeling ‘true.’ 

What does that mean? 

Because our consciousness uses our body to receive information from the senses to create a feeling towards some part of the whole possible experience going on.

From a keyhole to see causation.

You could have many possible feelings, but our awareness ability is limited so we are always trapped in certain feelings. That is why Buddhist philosophy calls it an awareness boundary.

When we are free to see all angles, free to create and experience many feelings, we are no longer trapped. That is one reason why many Buddha statues hold a glass jewel – to represent seeing from all angles as the path to awakening, into joy.

Actually there is a key to recreate our awareness boundary, our experience.

If you mix water and ink and juice and tea all together, shake it up – it joins together. 

But truly the water never mixes. If you heat that liquid until it turns into steam, and then distill it let the stem condense and drop back down into a separate container, it will form pure water again. Water will always do this.

Consciousness is like this, our essence remains pure, it just has been mixed for a long time.

So how to distill our consciousness back to pure again?

One method is to observe language, even one word from all angles again.

Space

Mostly we think of where we live (Earth) as space, but our body is space as well. Both are four elements: Earth, water, fire, air.

Take a tree: Water, earth, absorb the air and need temperature to survive – 4 elements

Tree has the 5th element: empty space as well, so 5 elements mixed together. Reason tree is not life is because it misses consciousness (the 6th element). The way it acts and reacts is automatic. 

Consciousness the 6th element – is made up of 8 programs, split into 3 groups:

• Subconsciousness (5 senses) , 
• Brain consciousness (thinking Buddhism calls this the 6th sense), and 
• Hidden consciousness. 

From here we can understand how our consciousness works. Originally our hidden consciousness creates 2 types of karma when we are born – body and the space. Joined together with all the other consciousness.

But each life has different past karma, and different abilities and potential from previous lives, so we will need to understand the 7 chakra energies to understand the foundation of life. These chakras are very important.

Sp inside the universe of our body these chakras are like the galaxies of information we need to observe and understand – but they are all connected, you understand one part completely, it will unlock all the other areas.

Example:

3 parts: calculation part we use now, the automatic part already running no need to think, hidden part, store all the information from our past and potential future. As a taste of learning about hidden consciousness – here is one exercise:

• Where does taste come from?

• The feeling of an apple the first time you bite into it? Come from the apple? Where in the apple? Come from you? Why need the apple? Come from your tongue, don’t need to bite anything.
• It is a special mix of all together open up taste from inside you. 
• That is hidden consciousness, it has the entire unlimited universe of potential inside ready to wake up… that is what Buddha came to Earth to help us learn… nothing to get, every possibility inside us, we can choose to develop anything.

Consciousness is life. It is a big subject

Consciousness has no form, so you need to create something to be aware of existing, first it creates empty space, then 4 element space, 5 element space in surroundings are changing – so the tree is these 5 elements mixed.

And consciousness is all 6 elements mixed together – 6 elements is the most complete, no 7 no 8.

6 elements create whatever we call life.

We aren’t aware that our body is space because our consciousness is connected to this space the day we became aware we are existing, so somehow it is all we can remember, not aware of anything before that clearly.