# (2024-05-10) (BEST EVER!) (3-Part Series) All about [[Vinnana|Consciousness]] & [[Sati|Witness]] consciounsness! Tags:: [[Vinnana|Consciousness]], [[Sati]], #dhamma/best/ever ##### 2024-05-10 — All about Consciousness! (4 Functions) - All about consciousness in PS cycle ([Youtube](https://youtu.be/RqbgmlkFN3I?si=1QcShKkWRZ5OFk3P)) - #vilas/experience/supernatural - #eryu/learning/major **[[Vinnana|Consciousness]] (Viññāṇa)** has 4 parts: ^829d1c 1. **Knower / Awareness / Sati:** it's **_just_ aware** - it's Manasa (3rd stage of citta, mano, manasa) - it can have either yoniso **manasikara**, or ayoniso **manasikara** - What remains at Arahat 1. **Feeler:** it has a feeling - and it knows pleasurable, painful, and neutral feeling 2. **Perceiver:** It can perceive 3. **Experience** & **Experiencer:** The one who says **"I am"** - it's also the **"Doer"** - The subject of this experience - It can create craving - It's the **"subtlest" form** of consciousness experience - For **plants**, they have an "Experience", but not "Experiencer"! - **Arahat?** — **Same Experiencer but without the "I"** - Vilas talked how Gandhabba took birth! - ==Eryu: **My son is DEFINITELY waiting nearby**== when me and my wife **were having the sexual intercourse**?== - Vilas: **==ABSOLUTELY :)==** - Eryu: wow... :) #eryu/learning/major #eryu/wow - It's EXACTLY like buying a home! :) - You **search**, **book**, and **downpayment**, and sometimes cancels **(abortion)** - 6 Stages of "dying" 1. Standing Eryu 2. Fallen Eryu 3. Turned around Eryu 4. Sitting Eryu 5. **Unconscious Eryu** 6. **Dead (Eryu)**! - (Offline Questions) - Eryu: **Schizo patience** has other beings influencing them? - Vilas: Yes. They're influenced just like everyone else - Eryu: What **"sense door"** are you **sensing the beings** without a body? - Vilas: All of them. ##### 2024-05-13 — Consciousness DOESN'T CARE! - Video: Name-Form & Consciousness: A personal perspective ([Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Zw6-G94gA)) - **==Consciousness Doesn't CARE!!==** #eryu/learning/major - It just "**Reflect" whatever appears** in that moment!! - Like you don't care about a **==Childhood friend==**! - Eryu: Like you Don't care about a past dream!! - Eryu: Like you Don't care about a past project!! - Eryu: Everything can **"fade away"** in the same way! ##### 2024-05-15 — ==**Witness** / **Observer** (i.e. Sati)== = ==ALL you need== in Dhamma :) - From: **(BEST)** Six consciousness & Observer effect ([Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z99-PS8PrKI)) #dhamma/best/ever - Having a **==Witness== ==AUTO==-correct Immoral behaviors** #eryu/learning/major #eryu/wow #eryu/learning/milestone - This is how **double-slit experiment** works in [[Quantum Mechanics]]! - Vilas: The **Consciousness ITSELF ==KNOWS right and wrong==**!! - That's why having a **==Police==** **automatically** stops the **crimes** - And why **"security cameras"** work - Eryu: It's like the "**thief" sees himself** in the mirror #eryu/insight - **Thief** = **6 established consciousness** - **Police** = **unestablished (witnessing)** consciousness - Eryu: People doing bad deeds **HATE cameras**! - Eryu: **Scarecrow** works on animals (which is stealing) too! - Vilas: You can **==ONLY meditate==** when there's an **==Observer Effect==**!! #eryu/practice/learnings/major - **==When you watch the mind, the mind stops==**, and **hence the breath stops!** #eryu/practice/learnings/major - Eryu: That's why you need NOTHING ELSE other than [[Satipatthana|Satipaṭṭhāna]] - When you're sleeping #eryu/learning #not-this-or-that-neither-both-nor-none - Can you say you're **awake**? No - Can you say you're **asleep**? No - "Who" is there to be asleep, since you yourself doesn't exist! - Can you say you're **both** awake and asleep? No - Can you say you're **neither** awake and asleep? No