Human Development
Consciousness states in cyclic existence
Description:
States of consciousness vary in the three realms and nine levels of conscious existence. The cycle of existence spans the Desire Realm, the Form Realm and the Formless Realm, all within the samsara. Beyond is the unchanging.Context:
Tibetan Gelugpa Buddhism provides a full analysis of all the states of consciousness in the samsara. [Yogacara] Buddhism, which considers that only the mind exists and that the phenomenal world is simply a projection of it, does not distinguish [nirvana] from [samsara], but describes [nirvana] as awareness that only mind exists and that belief in phenomenal existence is confusion.< Narrower:
Setting the mindForm-realm consciousnessDesire-realm consciousnessFormless-realm consciousnessMeditative states of mental abidingsBeyond-the-third-realm consciousness Related:
Ten fetters