The Nature of the Mind

Levels of Mind

There’s the demarcation of sentient beings and non-sentient beings and, concerning sentient beings and mental activity in our daily lives, there are also different levels. When we are awake, when we dream and when we’re in deep sleep and then when we are unconscious – at each stage, there’s a deeper level of mind. Then also even at the time of death when the process of dissolution of the mind continues after the breathing stops – at that period, there’s yet another even deeper level of mind. We have no experience of what happens at the time of death, but we do know what the experience of being awake and dreaming and being in deep sleep are like.

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