It is undeniable that the body and mind change from year to year, day to day and moment to moment. But how do I know this? Because I am the consciousness that illuminates the body and mind. Just as the sun is unchanged by the things it illuminates, I am unchanged by the body and mind.
The body is a temporary form that arises in me, pure being, like the form of a pot arising from clay. Just as clay is present and unaffected before, during and after the arising of the pot, so am I present and unaffected before, during and after the arising of the body. Therefore, there is no birth, death or decrepitude for me.
The senses are temporary forms that appear in me, pure consciousness, like waves arising from water. Just as a wave cannot belong to water because a wave is nothing separate or different from water, the senses cannot belong to me because they are nothing separate or different from me, pure consciousness. Just as water is unaffected (fundamentally unchanged) by a wave, so am I unaffected by the senses and their objects.
End Of Knowledge 