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Consciousness and the body are not two separate things. They are as interdependent as the stomach and digestion.
Karma.
Yes they are two completely separate things. When you leave the body the consciousness remains. If you don't agree, then you are simply confusing the mind with consciousness. To be unconscious is not to have no consciousness, it is to be cut off from accessing it physically at least in any recallable manner. But it is most certainly still there. Consciousness is awareness and when we leave the body, we are still aware.
Your body didn't choose a thing. She has it right.
I don't see how anyone could possibly know that. If there is still awareness, what is it awareness of? There could be no awareness of the body, since it is gone. There could be no awareness of the environment, because that requires senses, which were a function of the body. There could be no awareness of thoughts, because those were a function of the mind. Awareness without a body is an impossible, absurd concept, that has no rational underpinning, and no empirical evidence, that I can see.
Hello gc:
When it came time to pick a body, my consciousness KNEW that THIS one would get laid a lot. That IS, of course, what our ONLY job is. To schtup and be fruitful.
excon
I'm convinced that our consciousness developed as a function of our bodies -there is no separate existence of consciousness without embodiment.
I knew a man who died twice. Because his first death happened just outside a hospital. physicians were able to restart his bodily functions within a couple of minutes, but he remained unconscious for several days. I asked him, later, if he remembered anything from that time, and he sais "No -I was driving down the street on moment and lying in a hospital bed with tubes in my arm and my wife hovering over me the next, but the calendar said four days had passed without my being there."
i do not remember the bardo. in fact, i have no conscious memory before age 3, and by that time i was in this body.
Because my mother and father had sex several decades ago...;-D...
Pardon my ignorance -what does :"bardo" mean?
I didn't choose anything. I would have chosen a better body.
to copy/paste google 'define':
