David Thomas Roberts

A problem in our examination of "mind" (I prefer to use the term "awareness") is our limited perception based on our physical aggregates. We are locke...

a consciousness in the clear light of awareness is at complete peace as the clear light has infinite capacity. Nothing needs to be "done" as all of ex...

I agree with Wayfarer As Wayfarer states.. clear light of reality is not a concept. Clear light is described in Buddhist philosophy. Call it what you ...

to be really clear I totally disagree with any sort of ideals of an "eternal life"

so sorry to have run so far out of bounds on this issue. new be with little control

the conception that we are some sort of divine receptacles of awareness or cognition seems very flawed on its face. There are undoubtably many biologi...

A biological aggregate has billion year old accumulation of structures to support cognition. These aggregates are extremely rare and precious. Even th...

We should consider that the phenomena of consciousness may be of a stream nature, a continuum. Considering the potential infinite nature of existence,...

I am a practicing Vajrayana Buddhist so my view is colored by the rationality of the clear light awareness arguments. In particular the arguments of N...

I am preparing to read some Hegel on the Phenomenology of Spirits.

but first we must define or at least determine the characteristics of consiousness

would of necessity be very complex and would be a defining differentiation between organic and inorganic aggregates as vessels of true awareness and c...

Consciousness may be a phenomenon that develops when certain characteristics and aggregates accumulate in a combination that facilitates or favors the...

Buddhist philosophy entertains the concept of the "clear light consciousness". A timeless and infinite openness which is the so called "emptiness" of ...