What is Pure Consciousness?

(Top 10 Definitions - Taken from Internet)

(Taken from Internet)

These are the Top 10 Definitions of 'What is Pure Consciousness' taken

from Internet by random picking :

Pure Consciousness - Definition # 1

But what is pure consciousness (PC)? Alexander, Chandler and Boyer

(1990) define PC as "a silent state of inner wakefulness with no object
of thought or perception (p. 1)." They hold that it is conditioned not
simply by cultural or intellectual elements, but by fundamental
psychophysiological conditions which are universally available across
cultures. Qualities of this state are implicated in their expanded
definition:

If pure consciousness is without content, it would be, ..., nonchanging

because there is no content in it that could change. It would be simple
because without content, there are no parts. It would be completely
one, having no diversity of content. It would be self-referring, because
there is nothing other than itself to refer to or know. It would be
unbounded because there is no bounded content of awareness to
engage or limit awareness (p. 2-3).

http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/cehsc/ipure.htm

Pure Consciousness - Definition # 2

Pure consciousness is the purest state of mind. When the mind
becomes a witness and no experiences or impressions remains on the
surface of the mind, you experience the mind as pure consciousness.
Pure consciousness is a state of mind, where it acts like a mirror.

Anything that comes in front of the mind either from the external world
or internal world, it reflects as it is. The mind as we all know, thinks,
imagine, forms perception, stores experiences and impressions, and
allows us to experience the external reality. The process of mind takes
place on its surface, but when you take your attention beyond the
surface of the mind, you experience the mind which is absolutely pure.
That is the state of pure consciousness.

https://modernagespirituality.com/2015/01/05/how-to-experience-the-
pure-...

Pure Consciousness - Definition # 3

Pure consciousness is the state of mind. The state of mind, where you
are free from all the mind activities. The nature of the mind is to think
thoughts, imagine things, accumulate experiences, and impressions
and create a circle of thoughts out of it.

Although the mind functions with its thoughts process, you have the
state of pure consciousness, which is beneath the functions of the
mind. The functions of the mind such as thinking, imagination,
visualization, dreaming, forming desires, creating the perception,
forming perspective, only remains at the surface.

When you simply observe life and take your attention inward, slowly
you slip back beneath the normal functions of your mind, to experience
the state, which is absolutely pure in its nature.
The state of consciousness is a pure state of mind. You dont find
yourself thinking thoughts nor the dreams and desires of the mind
disturbs you at this space. You simply experience life in this space.

https://modernagespirituality.com/2015/03/07/the-experience-of-the-
state...

Pure Consciousness - Definition # 4

This essential self is eternal; it never changes. It is pure consciousness,

and pure consciousness is timeless.

Our normal experience of the passing of time is derived from change

the cycle of day and night, the beating of the heart, the passing of
thoughts. In deep meditation, when all awareness of things has ceased
and the mind is completely still, there is no experience of change, and
nothing by which to mark the passing of time. You know you have been
sitting there, in absolute stillness, but as to how long you have been
there, you have no idea. It could have been a minute, or it could have
been an hour. Time as we know it has disappeared. There is simply
now, eternal now.

http://www.peterrussell.com/SG/Ch6.php

Pure Consciousness - Definition # 5

Satcitnanda, Satchidnanda, or Sat-cit-nanda (Sanskrit: )

"being, consciousness, bliss", is a description of the subjective
experience of Brahman. This sublimely blissful experience of the
boundless, pure consciousness is a glimpse of ultimate reality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/2hrgeu/what_is_pure_c
onscio...

Pure Consciousness - Definition # 6

As the absolute and infinite reality, brahman does not create or do
anything, but just is. However, though brahman is spoken of as if it
were a third person, it is not actually a third person, because it alone
exists, and since it is infinite, nothing other than it could ever exist. It is
therefore the sole reality of ourself, the first person. In other words, it is
what we actually are. Therefore it is ourself, and nothing other than
ourself, as affirmed by the mahvkyas such as aha brahmsmi (I
am brahman), aya tm brahma (this self is brahman), prajna
brahma (pure consciousness is brahman) and tat tvam asi (that you
are)

http://happinessofbeing.blogspot.in/2015/05/what-is-unique-about-
teachin...

Pure Consciousness - Definition # 7

In the first part of this enquiry we saw how, by discriminating between

the seer and whats seen, we arrive at the understanding that I, the
seer, am not the body, not the sense powers, not the thinking faculty,
not even a combination of all of them. They are all objects of my
perception and I am the perceiving subject. And I, the subject, cannot
be what I can perceive as an object. In this logical way we arrived,
step-by-step, at a final knower, which is given the name pure
consciousness. This pure consciousness is what remains after
thoughts, (which are the subtlest objects of perception), have been
dismissed as the ultimate I. We know theres something there but it is
still a bit hazy. We now need to test the robustness of our new working
conclusion that this pure consciousness is the I we are searching for
and sharpen the understanding.

http://www.advaita-vision.org/tag/deep-sleep/page/2/

Pure Consciousness - Definition # 8

This reality of pure consciousness is eternal by its nature and therefore
subsists equally during what you call waking, dreaming and sleep. to
him who is one with that reality there is neither the mind nor its three
states and, therefore, neither introversion nor extroversion. his is the
ever-waking state, because he is awake to the eternal self.

http://www.thespiritualindian.com/ramana-maharshi-quotes/

Pure Consciousness - Definition #9

Self-inquiry culminates in the intuitive knowledge revealed by the four

Vedic aphorisms (mahvkyas) stated in the Upanishads: That thou
art (tat-tvam-asi); I am Brahman (aham brahmsmi); Pure
Consciousness is Brahman (prajnam brahma); and This Self is
Brahman (ayam-tm brahma). Each of the ten Vedantic monastic
orders founded by Shankaracharya is associated with one of these
Vedic dictums, which is transmitted from guru to disciple at the time of
sannyasa. Before that, the novice undergoes years of rigorous spiritual
training to purify the mind, in order that it may be receptive to these
higher truths. At the time of sannyasa, when the guru utters one of the
mahvkyas, the disciple is then better able to receive the realization
of truth that the mantra imparts. The Self is to be known,
Yajnavalkya exhorts his wife Maitreyi in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,
Hear about it, reflect upon it, meditate upon it. By knowing the Self,
my beloved, through hearing, refection, and meditation, one comes to
know all things.[22]By uninterrupted meditation on these great Vedic
dictums, desires are obliterated, and we receive the highest realization
of pure consciousness, known as nirvikalpa samdhi. The minds
refection of pure consciousness reverts back to its source of light, the
Self-luminous Brahman, just as our face, when reflected in a broken
mirror, reverts back to our face itself. Subject and objectpure
consciousness and perceived consciousnessbecome one. At last we
discover that the ocean of pure consciousness that we had thought
was outside ourselves is, in reality, within. We are by nature Brahman
eternal, free, ever-blissfulthe One-without-a-second.

http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Consciousness_in_Advaita_Vedanta

Pure Consciousness - Definition #10

As further proof that pure Awareness is not in the realm of memory,

notice that It cant be memorized. The would-be finite thinking mind
based on the senses and time is incapable of coming up with any
thought, any finite mental form to express this undeniable Truth. You
glimpse or be your own Infinityand the constantly running finite
mind stops dead in its tracks. Yet You dont stop. You still are very real
and present as the permanent Now that pure Consciousness is. Life,
Being, is present. You simply have nothing objective to You. You dont
identify with any form, but only as the formless Infinity of Your Self
pure unthinkable Being.

http://peterdziuban.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CIACh05.pdf

Pure Consciousness - Definition #11

CONSCIOUSNESS IS MOVING OUTWARD!

CONSCIOUSNESS APPEARS TO MANIFEST OUTWARD!

Inner Paradigm-shift

A paradigm-shift is a change in how the majority of the

society/science/authority/establishment view the world. The current
paradigm, in the current way the West is holding Reality is that matter
is creating consciousness. Yogis have always seen this the other way
round; Pure Consciousness is One, and matter appears within
Consciousness. In order to live in a society in which the later is the
known paradigm a shift is needed, and you can be a part of that shift!
Live life from this awareness, make it your reality (full of sacredness).
Realize that you yourself are a world unto its self. If thoughts are
people, as Swami Rama says, then there is a whole civilization inside of
you. Train the mind so it becomes obvious for yourself and your whole
inner world that this is Reality; Consciousness appears to manifest
outward and everything happens within Consciousness. Then it will
dominate all your actions, thoughts and speech, because this is the
new default position of awareness. If it is established in your Reality,
then it will spill over in the way you raise and teach your children, you
play with your friends and be with your family, in the way you hold the
whole of existence in your heart. Thus make this inner paradigm shift
(make the shift in your whole inner world) based on constant practice
and constant awareness that all appears within Pure Consciousness
and who knows, maybe well life the day that it is common knowledge
in the whole world!

http://tripurashakti.com/inner-paradigm-shift-consciousness-appears-
to-m...

Pure Consciousness - Definition #12

Pure Consciousness Event: During meditation (...) one may become

utterly silent inside, as though in a gap between thoughts, where one
becomes completely perception- and thought-free. One neither thinks
nor perceives any mental or sensory content. Yet, despite this
suspension of content, one emerges from such events confident that
one had remained awake inside, fully conscious. This experience,
which has been called the pure consciousness event, or PCE, has been
identified in virtually every tradition. Though PCEs typically happen to
any single individual only occasionally, they are quite regular for some
practitioners. The pure consciousness event may be defined as a
wakeful but contentless (non-intentional) consciousness. Robert
Forman
.......

Richard: A PCE is when ones sense of identity temporarily vacates the

throne and apperception occurs. Apperception is the minds perception
of itself it is a pure awareness . Normally the mind perceives through
the senses and sorts the data received according to its predilection;
but the mind itself remains unperceived ... it is taken to be
unknowable. Apperception is when the thinker and the feeler is not
and an unmediated awareness occurs. The pure consciousness
experience is as if one has eyes in the back of ones head; there is a
three hundred and sixty degree awareness and all is self-evidently
clear.

http://actualfreedom.com.au/library/topics/pce.htm

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