PART 4. CONSCIOUSNESS

                                精神

                                                                                       jīngshén

Let us now take a glimpse at the place of Consciousness in this set of left and right brain operations.

You will remember the following three elements 

   Pure Awareness  <----  Yuanqi , Pure Life Extract ----> Pure Mindfulness

1. Life Qi  - Pure Awareness, 觉悟, juéwù, (a component of Awakening).

This Pure Awareness is a carrier of three elements of information:

                                                    The fount of No Life, the Void

                                                    The Spark of Life, in and of Itself

                                                    The Presence of Self Life without content

Imagine for a moment that this Pure Awareness sent the conscious signals to a new operation whih wee call Consciousness.

In Consciousness we may imagine it received as the experience of BEING ALIVE

2. Operation Qi - Pure Mindfulness - 走心 zǒuxīn, meaning "to move the true mind" [heart]), which is divided into three operations:

1) Function, 用, yòng; 

2) Essence, 体, tǐ ;  

3) Undifferentiated Form, 形态 不  分辨, xíngtài bù fēnbiàn.

Each of these signals of Pure Mindfulness , which is sent to the left hemisphere, is a carrier of three elements of information:

Function, 用, yòng;

                         The presence of Life Force Function, without content

                         Mind-moment changes

                         The presence of Being as Function

Essence, 体, tǐ;  

                       The presence of the operation six sense doors, without content

                         Mind-moment changes

                         The presence of Observing as the sixth door

Undifferentiated Form, 形态 不  分辨, xíngtài bù fēnbiàn

                         Undifferentiated Form

                         Mind-moment changes

                         Clear Comprehension

So from PureAwareness the signal:

                                                                       THERE IS LIFE

Augmented by these three which may well be received by Consciousness as: 

                                                     BEING IS FUNCTIONING

                                                    OBSERVING IS FUNCTIONING

                                    FORM IS AVAILABLE FROM THE UNDIFFERENTIATED

          It is these four as catalyst signals which join with:

                                                The  ZHEN QI, 真炁, Energy Flow

Thus producing the eight transformations within Yuan Shen, Rexin and Jiji Yuan

Being is Functioning with Yuan shen

Observing is functioning with Rexin

Form is available with Jiji Yuan

The Power of Consciousness then Arises from

   The Pure Awareness signal THERE IS LIFE

This Screen of Consciousness is then also available for: 

Consciousness of Vision

Consciousness of Hearing

Consciousness of Smell

Consciousness of Tact

Consciousness of Taste

    Consciousness of Mind; Pure Mindfulness

        (note this is not the consciousness

of the content of mind, which would be thinking)

           Consciousness of Stained Identity.

      Alaya Consciousness;  Pure Awareness

Amala-vijñana Consciousness, 眞如, zhēnrú,

          Suchness, "the uncarved wood". 

The Stained Consciousness then operates negatively

                  upon the contents of Mind