Is The Universe Conscious?

The universe/nature isn’t conscious; it reacts to circumstances through laws of attraction and repulsion. If we’re unaware of consciousness, we also react to circumstances governed by the same laws of attraction and repulsion.

Being conscious is being aware of consciousness, the primordial purity and wisdom free from elaborations. This unceasing expression of awareness is wakefulness.

When we are ignorant of wakefulness,
we are in a dream state of ideas, memories and habitual reactions.

Our reactions are due to the laws of attraction and repulsion; like and dislike perpetuate the conditions that cause the universe – and our minds – to revolve in circles.

Whenever we lose the middle way of balance and take sides of likes and dislikes, we create effects and causes for further conditions and consequences. In reacting to circumstances, we remain in our habitual existence, our dream state, and the same scenarios and reactions keep repeating themselves.

When we are conscious, we are free from taking sides, and remain in balance, which doesn’t mean we don’t do anything; it means we can adapt in harmony with a situation. This balance comes from training the mind through meditation.

Until we realise the dream state of memories we are in, we will suffer. The laws of nature can be transformed into the wisdom of primordial purity by seeing, in the very first instant, that consciousness is already present, before we react to circumstances.

Nature can be manipulated to appear animated and conscious to the uninitiated – entertainment technology sees to that. In the past, it was religion that animated belief to appear as if consciousness was present.

People can seem to be conscious, but it’s an imitation. Through mystery, we become confused, and think truth is a mystery. That is mara’s activity.

Increasingly, there are things we can’t say
because it may awaken consciousness.

Those who can actually think for themselves
rather than react for themselves are free.

It is only when we know truth,
that we can know untruth.