Female enlightened master Jan Frazier on being conscious and unconscious...

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Insightful article by female enlightened master Jan Frazier on being conscious and unconscious....

Being Conscious

Being conscious occurs in the now. When you’re conscious, you’re aware of what’s happening in the now: sensation in your body, what your body is doing, things directly observable in the immediate scene. Consciousness is neutral, unresisting awareness of present-moment reality. There are no mental filters, no inner narrative. Simply awareness of what is, right now.

Being unconscious means you’re lost in thought, in the pictures and stories your mind is producing. You have entered the made-up content of your mind and are occupying it as if it were reality itself. Your ego is invested in this content as being real and important, and very likely as a result you are experiencing some kind of emotion (stirred up by the thinking). You have forgotten that all of it is the product of your mind (even if its content appears to be true or important). As a result, you are missing actual reality, what’s happening in the now — including that you are inventing the thoughts. - Jan Frazier

All thought have its source in past memories, and when thought dominates the present moment experience to the exclusion of everything else, one is allowing the past to contaminate the present experience, and make it stale.

In awareness or pure consciousness, one sees reality as it is without the intrusion of the past, and thus perceives each situation afresh, without our likes and dislikes due to past memories getting in the way distorting the experience.