Does Consciousness Care?

There are those who think consciousness has no morals. 
That is Mara at work.

We are consciousness, and there are two aspects to us/consciousness; ordinary, contaminated consciousness and pure, uncontaminated consciousness. This is the proverbial struggle of good and evil which creates conflicts.

Ordinary consciousness is contaminated because it is attached to ideas in the mind governed by the three gross laws of nature – like, dislike and indifference. So we – ordinary consciousness – care about things and people we like, judge things and people we don’t like, or don’t care at all. This is how the ordinary universe works – attraction, repulsion and indifference. It’s the nature of survival: collapse and creation, collapse and creation.

Does pure consciousness, empty of contamination, care? 

Meditation is our pure state where there are no such things as caring or not caring; there is merely pure consciousness, pure awareness. But when pure consciousness looks out and sees suffering in all its forms, it cares unconditionally. This is as opposed to ordinary consciousness that chooses through bias what it cares about, which is usually me and mine.

Pure consciousness knows the cause of suffering, and how to alleviate suffering through experience, and so it has empathetic compassion for those who suffer, but is not taken in by false projections. That would be known as grandmother’s compassion – “There, there. Everything will be all right. Trust me.” That is political speak. 🙂

Pure consciousness takes the plaster off, 
and sees behind the cause of the effect.

True compassion gets to the heart of the matter.