wonkmonk's video: Deepak Chopra: States of Consciousness

Tibet House New York, 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ11g4H8IKo God and Buddha: A Dialogue with Deepak Chopra and Robert Thurman (2000) In this unprecedented dialogue, held at Tibet House New York, Deepak Chopra and Robert Thurman explore the ultimate harmonies between Buddhism and Vedanta. The Rishis, the sages of India, and the Buddha, the Enlightened One, teach the way to freedom from suffering. Vedanta describe reality as magical projection of divine consciousness, which we all share. Buddhism teaches the total awareness of reality, awareness that embraces our ultimate oneness and our relative, or virtual individuality. When we know we are God, we connect to all being through Buddhahood. “I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.” - Walt Whitman "Consciousness is a non-local quality of awareness. So it isn’t anywhere nor does it go anywhere. There are different modes or states of consciousness. There is waking state of consciousness, dreaming state of consciousness, sleep state of consciousness, and pure consciousness. During sleep, there is consciousness, but it is not the same as the waking consciousness you are used to. When you meditate and the mind goes beyond any thought, then it is experiencing pure consciousness, your true self. This value of consciousness can be associated with a physical body and the material world, but it is not dependent upon matter for its existence. So if the sun explodes , our essential immaterial consciousness will still exist, but it will not be expressing itself through the physical plane. Exactly what that would be, I have couldn’t say." - Deepak Chopra https://www.deepakchopra.com/articles/states-of-consciousness/ The Seven States of Consciousness (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U26pXuGxknI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJJLLdmKE8 https://www.uctv.tv/shows/Total-Wellbeing-with-Deepak-Chopra-MD-30715 Deepak Chopra: Higher States of Consciousness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASGOuYKCqLc