Xuanyuan said calmly:

"This goes back to our original question – what is the heart?"

"It can be seen that as the embodiment of human consciousness, the mind is not essentially a purely material flow of information."

"The mind carries and calls upon all the information you have, but it is not just this information, but it is a dimension higher than this information."

"You apprentices, do you have any skills like ours archers?"

"It's a skill that requires you to enter a special state where your mind is blank when you cast it?"

Sinia nodded:

"Yes, trainee scholars also have a lot of skills that they have to go into a state of consciousness before they can be used."

Xuanyuan glanced at Sinia.

He suddenly waved his palms and slammed his palms in front of Sinia with a loud high-five, startling Sinia by surprise.

Xuan Yuan withdrew his hand and said with a smile:

"Just now, the moment I was scared, was my mind blank?"

"Were there any thoughts, emotions, or images at that moment?"

Sinia patted her chest with one hand and said with a smile:

"I was scared."

"Yes, at that moment just now, I entered a state where my mind was blank when I used my skills."

Xuanyuan stretched out his index finger and gently tapped the table with regularity:

"So, here's the problem."

"The moment you are frightened, since there are no thoughts, no thoughts, no emotions, no pictures in your mind."

"At that moment, how did you know the fact that [your mind was blank]?"

"If you really don't have anything in your head, you shouldn't even know [a blank in your mind], right?"

"It's like going into a coma under general anesthesia after surgery, or the transition between your sleep and your wake."

"In that state, you don't realize anything, you don't even realize anything, you don't feel the passage of time."

"I just feel like my eyes are closed and open, and the middle part is skipped."

"However, the moment you were frightened, you could clearly know the whole process of [blank in your mind], wouldn't you?"

Xinia looked surprised:

"Hey, that's true!"

"If I really don't have anything in my head, I don't realize [there's nothing in my head]."

"But the moment I was frightened."

"It felt like something was looking at [nothing in my head], so I knew that I was [nothing in my head] at that moment"

Xuan Yuan nodded:

"That's right."

"When frightened, the daily flow of thought is interrupted, thoughts come to a standstill, emotions are no longer generated, and thinking is interrupted."

"Let's take an analogy."

"It's like a canvas densely covered with all kinds of paints, and you don't usually realize the existence of that white canvas."

"One day, the mess of paint that covered the surface of the canvas was washed away in an instant."

"The pure white base cloth, which has been hidden under the pigment and carries all the pigments, is highlighted at this time."

"At this point, you'll find out."

"When you enter [a blank in your mind], there is actually one last thing left that is like a white canvas, and it is precisely this thing that allows you to still see the blank state in your mind."

"Otherwise, you'd never know you're in a state of [mind blank]."

"This thing is exactly what we call perspective, which is awareness."

"From this, a discovery can be made."

"Awareness does not depend on thinking to exist, nor does it depend on thoughts, nor does it depend on emotions."

"Awareness represents your pure existence itself."

"Let's take a life example."

"Have you noticed a very strange thing, when we are dreaming, all kinds of strange and wonderful events often happen in our dreams."

"You'll find that sometimes you're in a first-person perspective in your dreams, and sometimes you're in a third-person perspective in the air in your dreams."

"Sometimes, you are in a dream that is much the same as you are in reality, and sometimes you become a completely different person in your dream without knowing it."

"However, you can easily substitute into the new dream identity and develop a real 'sense of self'."

"Sometimes, even though the memory, words and deeds, and way of thinking of the person in the dream are different from those of you in reality, you can still recognize the person in the dream as [me] without hindrance."

"It can be seen that the source of this [sense of self] does not come from the [memory information] that you have accumulated since you were born—such as: your name, your family, your country, your personality, your preferences, and so on."

"This [sense of self] comes precisely from awareness."

"What you usually call your self-definition is actually a temporary illusory identity that you have formed after consciousness has temporarily called on your memory bank, that is, a false self."

"It's like someone thinks that [I am a coward who never dares to communicate with others], but as time goes by, when an individual's cognition changes, his actions change, and new memories will gradually replace his past memories, this person will calmly accept the identity of [I am a brave person who dares to communicate with anyone]."

"At this moment, the definition of self-identity changes."

"But neither the former nor the non-fearful communicator of the latter, there is no change in awareness itself."

"The only thing that changes is the memories and definitions that the person holds in his consciousness and that are called up in the unconscious at all times."

"From here, we can know that all the information we have received from the outside world since we were born is actually an information reserve that is constantly filled and then called up temporarily."

"Whatever information we receive from the outside world does not represent our own essence, because essence is not something that is constantly changing."

"It's that after all the information entered from the outside is eliminated, the thing that is left in the end cannot be eliminated - the heart."

"In other words, the mind is awareness, and awareness is the mind."

"If we identify with information that happened in the past, we will think that our personality, character, and weaknesses cannot be changed, and that we are completely natural."

"If you discover the nature of your consciousness, you will realize it."

"The only thing in your life that will always be with you, and will not change until you die, is awareness itself."

"In addition, all the information you are input by the outside world can be converted, edited and changed at will, and there is no such thing as being unchangeable."

"That's why, twin brothers who grew up in the same bad family environment and were born at the same time still have the phenomenon that the elder brother becomes a criminal who has been repeatedly taught and the younger brother becomes an honest and benevolent lawyer."

"It's not the information that the outside world inputs to them that completely determines whether they will become a good person or a bad guy in the future, but that they consciously choose to use the external information in a negative or positive way in their personal growth experience to create their own identity definition."

"He who has heaven in his heart lives in hell; Those who have hell in their hearts live out of hell in heaven. ”

Hear here.

Xinia couldn't help but clench her right hand into a fist and tap her left palm, with a look of emotion:

"I see!"

"Listening to you say this, I suddenly became aware of many problems."

"It turns out that the essence of human consciousness lies not in memorizing information, but in the awareness that calls the information at all times!"

(End of chapter)