Always Consider The Opposite
Consider: there is no such thing as pure consciousness.
What are we left with?
Impure consciousness or impure awareness.
In that case, we would perceive everything
as confused or muddled.
If we see the world as muddled,
how do we know this?
š
Truth stands to reason.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
Most everything is impure. Including humans.
In essence we are pure beings, but have been led up the garden path into living a mundane existence.
Everything, has no permanent reality, but we still believe things are real.
When we see darkness, there by definition must be light present.
That light is pure consciousness. When this realisation is permanent it is enlightenment.
When we feel disillusioned about life, that is the light that dispels illusions -the darkness.
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Tony
I find it hard to believe that there’s anything pure about us. Man is capable of much violence and other sins.
Agreed. But that’s not our true essence. That which sees the misery and injustice and feels for it is our absolute nature, which is pure. Tony
Man was pure when he was still in Eden. (paradise)
Hello JustAGuy,
From a Buddhists point of view that garden is probably pure consciousness, our original reality. It’s here now – Heaven/Nirvana.
… and those temptations and distraction are still here with us.
Once we truly realise our absolute nature, these trinkets of illusions serve as as reminder,
that they have no reality.
The devil’s disciples don’t realise they shows us the way! š
They cannot consider the opposite, as they are too closed minded.
Tony
Yes, that is the Buddhists point of view. But for me, there is so much more than conciousness, pure or otherwise.
Interesting. What is that?
If it wasn’t for consciousness how would we know anything. š
Tony
God