How do I know myself as Consciousness?

[JustBe]

Originally Posted by J_A_S_G

The philosophy can be defined but I don't see how the experience can be defined. It's kind of like a story told by Dr. Bruce Greyson about NDE researchers interviewing near death experiencers who say certain aspects of what they experienced is beyond words, at which point the researchers say "Great, tell me all about it". LOL!

Haha.. that’s funny.

If one is being it, isn’t it simply the expression of itself? And in the describing of the philosophy if integrated as the experience, wouldn’t it be simply felt and noticed as such?

If you’re living through the awareness it encompasses attributes and actions as I see this. As an example I don’t always understand the philosophy until I’ve experienced something, but I can relate through experience when I read the philosophy from another aware.

[MikeS80]

Originally Posted by Ewwerrin

So people say, you don't exist. And suddenly there is a boundless sense of freedom. In the same way that one meditates and suddenly they feel free.

Actually the opposite happens. It seems like the premise is you do not exist because physical existence is an illusion that is not real, this is like saying existence does not exist.

If people actually lived like this in thier every day to day life, they would not experience anything, and they will not have any experiences to talk about.. People will claim that it is about non duality and about being beyond mind but all of those things are knowledge, information that thier mind uses and learned from gurus/teachers, so it is not being beyond mind at all, it only appears to be beyond mind, and as the saying goes, appearances can be deceiving.