The Illusion of Life: Consciousness, Mind, and Body

When you close your eyes, your consciousness experiences a flow of thoughts and emotions, which we call the mind. This mind is perceived by your consciousness, and as you identify with it, a second layer of identification arises: the sensory body. The body is merely a sensation that your consciousness experiences. In other words, after perceiving and identifying with the mind, you then identify with the sensory experience of the body.

In truth, there is no real body; both the body and the mind are just appearances, perceived from the point of view of another body or mind. In reality, only consciousness exists, and it has always been the perceiver. There isn't even an "outside" world — the world exists only when seen from the perspectives of other minds and bodies. Ultimately, there is only consciousness, and everything that appears in it takes the form of bodies and the world because we all perceive the same reality from our body-mind perspective. The bodies, minds, and the world are nothing more than the activities of consciousness, manifesting when consciousness becomes aware of itself as an object. From this point, the illusion of life emerges.