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Hi SoZ

I can suggest you consider examining the matter via introspection.

Like now I am focusing on the features an orange flower growing from a tree but am also trying to focus on the sound of birds.

It is easy to focus on the flower and hear the birds in the background but if I wish to focus accurately on the sounds it is difficult to pay acute attention to both.

But, at least in my experience, it seems more than one consciousness can function at any given time.

It can be said one consciousness is hearing and seeing at the same time but, alternately, it can also be said two consciousnesses are hearing and seeing at the same time.

What do we think?

Kind regards



what's called 'mind,' 'intellect' or 'consciousness' by day and by night arises as one thing and ceases as another. Just as a monkey, swinging through a forest wilderness, grabs a branch. Letting go of it, it grabs another branch. Letting go of that, it grabs another one. Letting go of that, it grabs another one. In the same way, what's called 'mind,' 'intellect,' or 'consciousness' by day and by night arises as one thing and ceases as another.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....061.than.html
If anyone were to say, 'Eye consciousness is the self,' that wouldn't be tenable. The arising & falling away of eye consciousness are discerned.

If anyone were to say, 'Ear consciousness is the self,' that wouldn't be tenable. The arising & falling away of eye consciousness are discerned.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....148.than.html