07-05-2021, 09:42 AM
(07-01-2021, 10:15 AM)Anders Wrote: Something that nonduality teachers need to defend is when they say that consciousness is everything then how come we are unaware in deep dreamless sleep? My proposal is that reality is the difference between everything and nothing. And consciousness is that difference being aware of the infinite expansion of itself. So there can be awareness of something and there can also be awareness of nothing like in deep dreamless sleep and in anesthesia during for example surgery.
I don't know if you have ever been put under anesthesia, but it is qualitatively not the same as deep dreamless sleep. When you get put under there is not awareness of nothing, there is no awareness. I have my speculation on what is going on in these cases but it is just that.