"As soon as I come in touch with a situation in the world, it feels a certain way, makes perceptual sense and inclines me to adopt a stance toward it.
Consciousness emerges out of the entire complex of interactions between an organism and its environment.
Consciousness is a seamless whole that is not equivalent to the sum of its parts.
Consciousness has a total, unified awareness of what is happening that none of its constituents (feeling, perception, inclination, etc.) can achieve on their own.
For Gotama there can be no such thing as "pure" consciousness, an unconditioned or pristine "knowing" that exists independently of the phenomenal world of discrete physical things and mental processes.
Without a condition there is no arising of consciousness.
Consciousness is determined by the particular conditions that give rise to it.
Consciousness is a impermanent, contingent, compounded and varied as anything else in experience."
Consciousness emerges out of the entire complex of interactions between an organism and its environment.
Consciousness is a seamless whole that is not equivalent to the sum of its parts.
Consciousness has a total, unified awareness of what is happening that none of its constituents (feeling, perception, inclination, etc.) can achieve on their own.
For Gotama there can be no such thing as "pure" consciousness, an unconditioned or pristine "knowing" that exists independently of the phenomenal world of discrete physical things and mental processes.
Without a condition there is no arising of consciousness.
Consciousness is determined by the particular conditions that give rise to it.
Consciousness is a impermanent, contingent, compounded and varied as anything else in experience."
After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a secular age
