Consciousness is like a mirror. It doesn’t more. It doesn’t change, but the reflections on it move and change. Consciousness in its pure state is always silently observing reflections in our mind. We look at these reflections long enough and they become real. We make a story about them and then they become not real. It is just a mental story to entertain our mind while it tries to understand the meaning of life.
The mind is only the mirror. When we look into the mirror, we see a reflection of our self. When Pure Silent Consciousness looks into the mirror, there is nothing there except empty space. Buddha calls this our True Nature undefiled by other experiences. This is the state of meditation when we drop into Ku and all distractions of other images and thoughts have disappeared. Our mind wants to identify our images and thoughts and make a story that tells us this is who I am. But we are only a mirror and can only know our true nature when the mirror is clear.
