A Buddha asks a room what are you? The room looks around and sees a sofa, coffee table and a TV. The room answers by saying "well based on the furniture I must be a living. The Buddha then asks, "if I was to remove the contents of the room would you no longer exist?"....the room pauses...the man then reassures the room that you are not the contents of the space, you are the space itself. Of course the furniture in this analogy is your consciousnesses, thoughts and feeling. The space that holds the furniture....That is awareness Be the room, be the awareness, detached yourself from the idea that you are the thoughts inside your head. You are not you are the being that hears them

In a dream I am conscious but I have no awareness of that consciousness. In a deep sleep I have no awareness and no consciousness prior to waking up from the state of unconsciousness. This helps a lot ! Thanks for the video! 🙏

for me, consciousness is deeper and awareness is more succinct. for example, sometime i dont even realize how much i love a person, the love exist in our brain (consciouness) not matter whether i have discovered or not, but one day i cameto realized the love and i became aware of my cousciouness.

They are the same thing, like water and ice. Consciousness comes and goes to/in awareness, but, is made out of the same stuff, what awareness is. Knowingness. What do we really know about this reality? Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling, thinking. What are all those made of? Conscious, experiencing. What is conscious experiencing made of? Knowingness. It's the awareness, knowing this concious experience. This awareness doese not come and go, like the concious experience doese. It's the ground, light, that illuminates this concious experience. Awareness is not in space and time, it's not an experience, but space and time appear in it, from it, and are made of it. There is really just THAT. And THAT is not an object, appearing in consciousness. Consciousness appears in THAT. One without a second. One is even too much :-) Excuse my spelling, but english is not my first language.

I suppose you can describe awareness and consciousness how you like because no-one knows how or why we perceive our existence.

From what I've been learning, awareness is something that consciousness uses. Awareness is a function of the agency of being conscious.

In the context where they do mean the same thing, I've always preferred "pure awareness" because "consciousness" has such a personal connection and gets mixed up with "thought" So yeah I like this guy's defintions

The sense "I am" arises out of consciousness. The "I am" is experiential and so is consciousness - Being aware of being aware, Yet there is a knowing of this that is not consciousness. That which is prior to consciousness is awareness. There is nothing that can be said about awareness, it cannot be located or observed. There is nothing prior to awareness.

Yes, I see that. But I use consciousness as a synonym for awareness and love, interchangeably. Ultimately, we’re talking about something that cannot be described, using words which have different meanings to each of us. The important thing is to successfully communicate whatever it is we are trying to communicate - in this case, isness.

In Early Buddhism consciousness is a space-time momemt to moment event that arises due to contact of six senses of perception (mind plus 5 senses) and their objects. It is conditioned by six kinds of perception and mental formations. Consciousness is appearences like clouds or even a rainbow while Awareness is the vast timeless backdrop like luminous unbounded empty sky.like (citta or heart-mind). We can know our true enlightened nature through bhavana and mindful meditation.

These two words can be used synonymously or they can be used to mean two different things depending on the intent of the person using them. It's not very material or important. What is important is to understand what is being meant by the words even when they are being used synonymously. In Sanskrit, the word is Chit or Chaitanya.

You can try to staple whatever different mouth sounds onto it but it isn't gonna change that there is one fundamental aspect of all of us, underneath any experience, that has never changed. See from that place and stop getting caught up with what to call it.

"Awareness is." --Swami Dayananda

CONsciousness.

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So to be clear is awareness something in our brain that is consistent with its view of reality and doesn’t change? While consciousness develops and changes like our body or time?

When death appears consciousness may go away but awareness will always be there and has always been I remember feeling something forever before I was awake as a child as a baby where are you remember when I first became conscious of my surroundings that will never leave my mind. I have been set and a ant bed when I was about a six-month-old child and I awoke and became conscious.

This has puzzled me for some time,many nondual teachers state we are Awareness, Sathya Sai Baba the Avatar, the man of miracles on video states "you are Consciousness" I.E ATMA SELF,the Supreme Absolute, ETC. Someone with his extraordinary ability to control nature must know the truth .Sathya means truth, he says" All is God." and can change a leaf into a huge diamond or anything he wants just by blowing on it or make it disappear. So it follows that someone who has experienced Satori , has had a glimpse into ones real nature, ATMA or Pure Consciousness , so therefore Consciousness is the Supreme, one without a second, Eternal , normally we are ego Awareness, a person ,a very limited field of experience . In a Satori experience Awareness is witnessing ATMA or Consciousness, the person idea disappears, in a Self realised Being there is only Consciousness ,only ONE I have had spontaneous Sartoris ,the first at 8 years old and I know the person I thought I was was no more, it was just love and light ,blissful in simple terms, however it is not permanent for myself yet, I have had a taste of pure Consciousness to spur me on many have these Satoris or "Peak experiences" without knowing what happened ,meditation is very important and prepares the way for Satori's and eventually full realization. hyamji Bhatnager who works with Micro Chakras and is very knowledgeable also states that Consciousness " Is, was, and shall ever be " to sum up I understand Awareness is a very limited state of pure Consciousness as a person, name and form, its like looking at the world on all levels through a cloudy lens.

Y'all trying to bite your own teeth as Alan Watts said 😂 we can't understand consciousness completely if we treat it as a seperate unintegrated part of the whole organism/environment and if we attach the 'I' to it. To put it simply, consciousness is the very phenomenon of continious scanning of the environment and the input- information processing by the brain plus the functioning of nerves and muscles as in a state of awake tension that with all of it results in a sort of 'experience' that is like a controled hallucination or illusion. Now self-awareness which is the 'I' is as much the recognition of Consciousness as the very chronic muscular strain and the indoctrination of society, which means the 'I' is not real but both a physical 'sense' and an implanted idea. Now with the 'I' gone, what stays is pure Awareness which is the field of infinite creative absolute mathematical intelligence, of eternal existence and being, of all that IS, THE ETERNAL HERE&NOW and of Love.

Once awareness becomes aware of itself it is conscious, the I AM. They are different. But both need each other.

Its not possible to be aware of something without be conscious of that..when you are not thinking of something and you are enteriley silent inside you (which is extremely difficult) that doesn't mean you are not consious of your existence.consciousness is active there but doesn't analyse something specific at that moment of internal silence..is not the same thing with being asleep or in coma or dead..in other words you are consious/aware of the silence..

I really wish I could follow this. So many people describe the difference here and I've yet to understand it.

Consciousness=jagruti (wakefulness) Awareness=turiya in which all three states appear n disappear.. Can we say that??

I just woke up and literally search for this video. When im sleeping, i was listening into some random modern philosopher who always rub his nose and then notice that my dream is all about this person i even noticed his voice and whispering in the back of my mind "i know this man" then mins later just when i woke up, and realize am i only the watcher of my own body? And been thinking that all the things I've done is just the illusion of me, thinking that was me, controling this body or maybe a twin inside my head? Like i was only that voice inside my head and not the consciousness and maybe i was responsible for some reason to become aware into things? Lol nvm I'll have more sleep.

They both develop in direct proportion, you can't have one without the other, the SEEM different but not actually

All that I am is that which I am And that which I am is I And whatever I am I will be what I am The infinite, eternal I

Awareness is in the brief moment, while Consciousness is non local which is with you. Like saying an adult man is more awake in life than his 3 year old child. That "awake" in life is your Consciousness, which is not local, cuz you're more awake. It's not spiritual, it's just "life" awakening, you awakening which is not attached to anything. Your experience of life itself is your Consciousness.

In Spanish, awareness is translated to Conscience. We don't have a different word for it :/

Consciousness is existence while awareness is knowledge of existence n self. The newborn infant has consciousness but lacks awareness until after 3-4 years Life is valueless without awareness Awareness gives meaning to consciousness

Wow!!! This stuff will definitely keep my mind fresh and rust freefor the next 50 years!!! 🤣🤣🤣😆😆

They are the same thing.

I find this problematic. What if awareness is an attribute of a “level” of consciousness? In that context, some consciousness could lack awareness (of itself), and some awareness could be built up from lower level consciousnesses, some aware, most not. For example, we know from split brain studies that our perception of the unity of our consciousness is a demonstrable illusion. Each human undergoing split brain surgery then demonstrates multiple conscious awareness-es.

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

🕉️ Awareness.

Awareness is the WITNESS of consciousness . Animals have consciousness but not awareness. Awareness is the WITNESS to actions . Seeing things is consciousness . But Animals are not aware to it .

We can say he is not Concious , but we don't know if he is aware .

If one has found awareness, it is a boon to be reverenced with gratitude and a peaceful heart. All is God. All is love.

Consciousness is recursive awareness

Consciousness is brahman and awareness arises and creates universe

Everything is consciousness. Awareness is a quality of consciousness, for example if you take the eyes out they cannot see without consciousness/awareness. The Dhammapada says: All mental phenomena have consciousness as their forerunner; they have consciousness as their chief; they are consciousness-made. Kulayarāja Tantra: "'Consciousness' means that self-arising wisdom, the true essence, dominates and clearly perceives all the phenomena of the animate and inanimate universe. This self-arising fundamental substance, not produced by causes and conditions, governs all things and gives life to all things."

That didn't help.

Figure out what our consciousness is, then you've figured out if there's a God or not

There is no brain, there is no body. Consciousness is thought reflecting the sense fields. Awareness, or Knowing, _is_ the raw senses. Awakening is recognizing that the former is an illusion and the latter is reality. There is nothing collating.

Awareness and consciousness are same . Yes there is no difference between Apple and fruits . We have to see beyond our confined vision and limitation .

You keep having your totalitarian absolute truths, I’ll pray for you

The man in the video above is right and the rest of you are not so right. Awareness is a condition of life and inhabits mostly the being and or inner life of you all.The brain however (being a superior mechanism) has another feature that overrides the awakened condition, adding the special cognisance of the higher self (or life if you prefer) resulting in the Conscious state of life. The awakened life knows that it exists but the conscious life (being that it is higher in divinity) realises the purpose for its existence. The brain in function is the seed of any further life experience beyond the awakening and on into the greater life experiences that are no longer left by us and our future in the medieval ages that the world at this time has awakened from. The brain life has and is becoming conscious of its own existence e.g. beyond the seven day creational event of religion. Cultural indoctrination is no longer the master of the enlightened mind and life, and if it is then your life is lessor than it could be, but that of course is your own choice being it an Awakened one or a Conscious one.

Consciousness by definition is the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world. And Awareness by definition is knowledge or perception of a situation or fact. Dudes kind of a quack who just tried to over complicate it. This is all nothing..from the nothing(that we are) we experience ourselves and the world as we perceive it. Most are not aware that they are both the perception and the perceiver and the perceived so they keep searching which is pointless.simple 😂. Everything here is conscious but we are only aware of our experience (which is literally different for everyone) I can’t take this man seriously. It’s like he’s had a little more than a microdose if you know what I mean. I’m rambling and most people who are trying to understand this won’t grasp it because I’m telling it from my experience. Science tries to force a construct because we made it up and we use constructs for reality but reality is different for every conscious thing perceiving it so it cannot be constructed but the convos about it are a fun way to tickle curiosity. But no one is ever gonna figure it out for the whole because it’s subjective based on the perceiver

Being aware is one thing, but expanding your consciousness is another level.

I've always used "self/ego" as he uses consciousness, and "consciousness" as he uses awareness. Kinda find his definitions more confusing.

This is fu****g vague...

This guy just contradicted himself seventeen times, I bet he's not consciously aware of his folly.🤔

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Quackery at its finest.

Consciousness is awareness plus mind and the structure of the individual brain 😂 anyone who misses the tautology is probably loving this nonsense