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Alexandr: Okay, next question. There was Buddha, let’s say, like an ordinary man, but somehow he got involved in something. And what he got involved in began to manifest on earth. What went into him was a Spirit, and he began to give something to people, which was teachings. And when this Buddha’s body died, people began to become more involved in what he had become involved in through his teachings. Is that so?
Mystic-Old-Man: It is.
Alexandr: Good, then one more point. And when this body died and his memory and what was manifested in him when he was alive, is that him? Or was he just a carrier of this capsule that grew old and died?
Mystic-Old-Man: That’s it, not just a capsule.
Alexandr: So it turns out that he manifests himself here through this physical shell. And when he died, his body, people were still connected to him. Well, did he remember himself afterwards or not?
Mystic-Old-Man: Of course he remembered.
Alexandr: So it’s as if he was and still is aware of himself?
Mystic-Old-Man: In Buddhism it is the foundation of the foundations – awareness of the self.
Alexandr: Even after death?
Mystic-Old-Man: Yes, even after death.
Alexandr: Okay, and when he died, the consciousness was where?
Mystic-Old-Man: Consciousness is both everywhere and nowhere because consciousness is something that distinguishes between meanings: I am not me. The brain is just a medium through which consciousness mediates the perception of the body. So consciousness is everywhere and nowhere.
Alexandr: It’s just that when Buddha appeared in a physical form, his consciousness or something, the mind manifested through him, that is, it is him. But until it happened, he didn’t remember anything.
Mystic-Old-Man: Look, in one of the films, Little Buddha, a Buddhist monk throws a cup of tea on the floor and says, “Notice that the cup is no longer a cup, but the tea is still tea. So consciousness is the tea, not the cup. The cup is the form in which the consciousness is immersed. Immersed in that form or aware of that form. Consciousness itself – it has the property of percolating everywhere. Like tea that seeps through.
Mystic-Old-Man: It is.
Alexandr: Good, then one more point. And when this body died and his memory and what was manifested in him when he was alive, is that him? Or was he just a carrier of this capsule that grew old and died?
Mystic-Old-Man: That’s it, not just a capsule.
Alexandr: So it turns out that he manifests himself here through this physical shell. And when he died, his body, people were still connected to him. Well, did he remember himself afterwards or not?
Mystic-Old-Man: Of course he remembered.
Alexandr: So it’s as if he was and still is aware of himself?
Mystic-Old-Man: In Buddhism it is the foundation of the foundations – awareness of the self.
Alexandr: Even after death?
Mystic-Old-Man: Yes, even after death.
Alexandr: Okay, and when he died, the consciousness was where?
Mystic-Old-Man: Consciousness is both everywhere and nowhere because consciousness is something that distinguishes between meanings: I am not me. The brain is just a medium through which consciousness mediates the perception of the body. So consciousness is everywhere and nowhere.
Alexandr: It’s just that when Buddha appeared in a physical form, his consciousness or something, the mind manifested through him, that is, it is him. But until it happened, he didn’t remember anything.
Mystic-Old-Man: Look, in one of the films, Little Buddha, a Buddhist monk throws a cup of tea on the floor and says, “Notice that the cup is no longer a cup, but the tea is still tea. So consciousness is the tea, not the cup. The cup is the form in which the consciousness is immersed. Immersed in that form or aware of that form. Consciousness itself – it has the property of percolating everywhere. Like tea that seeps through.