The Perculiar Struggle for Consciousness

The Perculiar Struggle for Consciousness - (4760)

One thing that I am learning from the effort we all make to be conscious throughout the day, is that it is not really about maintaining the consciousness or maintaining presence, it is about regaining it.

The struggle or effort is always about being able to regain it. To get back to being conscious or to rescue our attention quickly and often, is what it is all about.

When we rescue our attention that is our consciousness working.

When we realise we have lost consciousness and we re-take being present by dividing our attention between watching ourselves while being aware of the environment, and being aware of what we are doing, our consciousness is back.

If we are not skillful at getting it back, it doesn't really matter how long we can hold it for because we will lose it and if we are not good at getting it back it will take a while until we realise it and are able to get it back. It could take just as long to get it back as we were conscious.

Experience tells us that we will always lose it, so we really need to be highly trained at knowing when we have lost it and just as highly trained at getting it back.

So well trained that at a blink of an eye, we are working to get it back.

Normally in a fight to win, one must resist the blows from the opponent and one must strike, forcing the opponent into submission. But with the fight for consciousness it is a little different. To win one must resist all the blows from life by transforming the impressions, and make strikes which is done by being pro-active.

How can we strike life? We can't really strike life. Life is stronger than us, it will not get knocked down. We can strike at the effects life as on us.

What we can do is to act proactively to prevent problems from appearing, avoid difficult circumstances, not make mistakes, not get new karma and avoid strengthening the egos we have which weakens our consciousness and that makes things a lot more difficult for us in all areas...

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