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The Ridhwan School is a loosely-knit affiliation of ongoing spiritual groups founded in 1976 by Almaas. The school is dedicated to the teaching of the Diamond Approach. It is principally based in Berkeley, California and Boulder, Colorado with other groups throughout North America and in parts of Europe and Australia. Almaas is the spiritual ...
A diagram of the model of the Eight Consciousnesses similar to that taught by Huiyuan (from the Xingming guizhi). The bottom circle depicts the origin of all phenomena, the "pure and undefiled consciousness" (白淨識bái jìng shí) enclosed in a circle representing the alaya with dark (defiled) and white halves (virtuous consciousness).
In the non-theistic/atheistic Samkhya school, Purusa is a central metaphysical concept, and envisioned as "pure consciousness". Further, Purusa is described by Samkhya school to exist in a "plurality of pure consciousness" in its epistemological theory (rather than to meet the needs of its ontological theory).
Silence is that Self." The soundless Ardhamatra, that lingers after the three differentiated sounds of Pranava die away, is Turiya or Pure Consciousness, the attributeless Brahman (Mandukya Upanishad 12). [11] The causal and the resultant conditions, the non-apprehension and misapprehension of Reality, do not exist in Turiya. [12]
Dipa-panchaka (दीप-पञ्चक, dīpa-paṃcaka) (expounding the nature of the Self as pure consciousness) : The second set of five chapters through light (Dipa) on the Pure Consciousness (Brahman) as the only Reality with Existence (Sat). God (Isvara), World (Jagat) and Individual (Jiva) are described in detail with their mutual ...
Under the influence of purusha (pure consciousness), prakrti first evolves to produce mahat (greatness, eminence) or buddhi (definite understanding, or intelligence), then ahamkara (ego). From ahamkara ' s sattva aspect, arises manas (the mind), the five organs of perception and the five of action.
Robert K. C. Forman, is a former professor of religion at the City University of New York, author of several studies on religious experience, and co-editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Forman has worked as professor of religion at City University of New York, both Hunter College and City College, and is Founding Executive Director ...
The pure consciousness of the Atman is unchangeable; as the reflection of its consciousness falls upon the mind the mind takes the form of the Atman and appears to be conscious. The mind is able to perceive because it reflects both the Atman and the object of perception ( Yoga Sutras IV.21-22). [ 8 ]