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**Fosavoa** · 04-14-2011, 11:59 PM

So, theoretically all consciousness/awareness where ever it may reside could potentially be annihilated completely?

No body has talk about annihilation. Just to contemplate how it arises and fades. There will be consciousness until we feel, perceive and elaborate mental fabrications. What the Buddha taught is to use this property to identify this mental formations and understand them as such so not to be attached to them; not to give them an inherent existence. That is all.

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Fosavoa Join Date Dec 2005 Posts 424 Senior Member	So, theoretically all consciousness/awareness where ever it may reside could potentially be annihilated completely? No body has talk about annihilation. Just to contemplate how it arises and fades. There will be consciousness until we feel, perceive and elaborate mental fabrications. What the Buddha taught is to use this property to identify this mental formations and understand them as such so not to be attached to them; not to give them an inherent existence. That is all.
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